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 …
KOLKATA, 19 MAY: The state forest department has decided to relocate a group of jackals from the Tollygunge club area to avoid a man-animal conflict. In the club area, the population of jackals had increased manifold and club officials had urged the forest department officials to take serious steps after …
An old woman was killed and several others badly mauled by a tiger in the Thadbehna village in Bahraich district on Monday evening. The tiger, according to forest officials, strayed into the village from the Katarniyaghat forest reserve and killed a 65year-old woman who had gone into the forest to …
Incidents of killings by Sundarbans tigers and deaths of man-eating feline are going on around the mangrove forest as for years as the authorities concerned remain indifferent to saving their lives. At least 120 fishermen, woodcutters and honey collectors were killed by the ferocious cats while 16 man-eaters were beaten …
Mumbai: Environmentalists are worried about the turn of things in the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR), considered the best tiger reserve in Maharashtra. The man-tiger conflict in this Chandrapur forest area, which had grown alarmingly in the last three years, has suddenly come to an end in the past five …
An assistant sub-inspector attached to Chamarajanagar Rural Police Station, B Basavegowda (52) has been trampled to death by a wild tusker near Yettegowdanadoddi forest range, on Karnataka-Tamil Nadu Border on Monday. According to police, both Basavegowda and another police constable, Ravi were going on their two wheeler to Kolipallya in …
People do not know about tiger behaviour. They drive the animal to aggression Recent incidents of tigers straying pose a new challenge in conservation. It
LUCKNOW: The latest incident of leopard straying was reported from Paraspur village of Katarniaghat forest on late Tuesday evening. The stray cat injured three men after they tried to chase it out of the village. The incident took place on Tuesday morning in Nishangadha range, about as early as 6.00am. …
MYSORE: Wildlife biologist M.D. Madhusudhan has been awarded the Whitley Award in recognition of his work to reduce human-wildlife conflict in the Western Ghats. He is the Director of the Mysore-based Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF). The award, reckoned to be one of the most important international nature conservation awards, includes …
Raktima Bose KATAMARI (West Bengal): Sudhangsu Betal of this village in the Sunderbans still treasures the pugmarks of the Royal Bengal Tiger that strayed into his home a few months ago. His voice is choked for, the tiger later died in the custody of Forest department officials. For Mr. Betal …
Forest Department is likely to launch an operation from May 11 to nab two rogue elephants which are damaging standing crops as well as attacking people in the Malnad region of the Western Ghats. According to officials, the State Government had given permission to the rogue elephants nearly five months …
Ajai Shukla / Tezpur (assam) May 04, 2009, 0:27 IST The Defence R&D; Organisation (DRDO) offers intellectual challenges, but not an adventurous image. A DRDO director is perceived as a man in a white coat working in a laboratory or gazing at computer monitors. But the Defence Research Laboratory (DRL) …
VADODARA: A leopard died of suffocation after being entrapped in a fishing net at Khatalwad village in Valsad district of Gujarat on Sunday, a forest officer said. Arjun Chaudhry, a forest official, told PTI that a cage was set up in front of a house in the village after learning …
JORHAT, May 3: With an increase of the leopard population in the Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary, the frequency of leopards attacking humans or vice-versa has commensurately increased near the sanctuary. Last night one Kamal Hazarika was attacked by a leopard at Kachogoral, Sonarigaon and on March 6, a leopard was killed …
Shillong: Meghalaya Forest Department on Sunday blamed the depletion of forest cover for the increasing man-elephant conflict in the state and in Garo and Khasi hill regions of the bordering Assam. At least 15 people have been killed by marauding elephants in the State alone in the last five years. …
The sight of a leopard devouring a monkey on a tree at Naqualim-Chicalim on Wednesday evening caused panic among residents. The incident took place at about 5 pm when locals were startled to notice a leopard consuming its prey. They alerted the forest department, Vasco police and fire department of …
A man and his two nieces were trampled to death by a herd of wild elephants at Lechhuaprang village of Teknaf upazila in Cox's Bazar yesterday. The deceased were identified as Fazal Ahmed, 20, Laila Begum, 10, and Kohinoor Begum, 10. Police and witnesses said the three went to the …
Mumbai: While the ever worsening problem of global warming and climate change has already started showing its effects, future rulers of the nation have completely ignored it. Manifestos of political parties have all the colours, but green. Almost all the political leaders have conveniently forgotten the issue and no one …
