Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Giri Gobardhan Forest Committee Vs State of Odisha & Others dated 15/05/2025. The Applicant Giri Gobardhan Forest Committee has filed the application alleging illegal felling of trees over an area of around 5 acres within the …
D Daniel Raj | ENS ELEPHANT TRAMPLES MAN TO DEATH IN KOVAITHE pent-up rage over the slumberous attitude of the forest department in protecting the people prone to elephant attack boiled over at Somayanur, when villagers resorted to a road roko on Wednesday. The latest victim was a 60year-old Rangasamy, …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has assured that all the forest and environment projects in Northeastern region would be funded on 90:10 ratio, official sources said here on Wednesday. Speaking in the meeting of Environment and Forests Ministers in Delhi on Tuesday, Tripura Forest Minister Jitendra Chowdhury strongly demanded to allocate …
Two wild elephants in a midnight raid damaged a primary school at Sevoke Bazar and ate up sacks full of rice and pulses which they probably could not finish during a previous attack. Personnel from Sevoke police outpost and the local people pushed the tuskers back into the nearby Mahananda …
Mumbai Leopards have always existed peacefully around human habitation, but in regions where they were repeatedly pushed back to the forest, animal-human conflicts have inevitably increased, says a study on human-leopard conflict called Project Waghoba carried out by a Pune-based NGO Kaati group. The NGO has carried out the study …
Forest Secretary Debendranath Sarangi (second from left), addressing a meeting in Udhagamandalam on Wednesday. Udhagamandalam: High priority is being accorded to the protection of elephant corridors, said Forest Secretary Debendranath Sarangi while speaking to journalists here on Wednesday. Pointing out that a special team was formed to survey the corridors, …
Dhandbad, Aug. 10: A study conducted by the Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research on the effects of mining on man-elephant conflicts has found that community participation linked to issues of tusker conservation can lead to enormous benefits for the local population. Having earned a name for its wide-range …
THE Centre must envisage a new scheme to provide grants to farmers for erecting solar- powered electric fencing along the forest area to protect their crops from wild animals, AIADMK MP N R Govindarajar has said. Talking to Express, he said the usual complaints received from the farmers of Gobi, …
Shimla: Grappling with the problem of monkeys and other wild animals destroying crops, the Himachal Pradesh government has requested the Centre to include the appointment of animal chasers under its flagship NREGA scheme.
The Dalma dwellers Ranchi, Aug. 4: The state forest department is chalking out an action plan for managing the habitat of elephants in the state to prevent them from straying, thus checking man-animal conflicts. A whopping Rs 78 crore will be required for the programme, a part of the Project …
A herd of wild elephants have destroyed banana plantation of one R Rangappa at Nayakana palya near Savandurga. Two wild elephants at Savandurga. DH photoThe elephants from Savandurga reserve forest are creating havoc in the surrounding areas. Says progressive farmer Narasimhamurthy, who lost his ready to be harvested banana plantation …
A fisherman was killed by tiger yesterday in Bibikhali area of the river Malanchi in the Sundarbans. Kashem Ali Gazi, 55, son of Manik Gazi of village Patakhali in Shyamnagar upazila fell victim to attack when he along with others was catching fish in the river. Fishermen who witnessed the …
H D Kote:DH News Service Seven persons sustained injuries in two separate incidents of attack by wild animals, in the taluk on Sunday. The dead leopard. Six persons sustained injuries in a leopard attack at Niluvagilu village in the taluk. The wild animal has reportedly succumbed to the injuries sustained …
COMPENSATION: Forests Minister N. Selvaraj handing over a cheque to P. Anandan, son of Pachamuthu, the forest guard who lost his life, on Saturday. KRISHNAGIRI: A forest guard was trampled to death by a wild elephant near Singarpettai in Krishnagiri district on Friday night. State Forests Minister N. Selvaraj placed …
DEHRA DUN: A man axed a leopard in a bid to save his wife from the jaws of the feline that entered their kitchen in Kumrada village of Uttarkashi district around 6 a.m. on Friday. The leopard entered the kitchen and attacked Sarojini as she was making tea. Sarojini put …
