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 …
A Dutch tourist was trampled to death by a wild elephant inside the Kaziranga National Park on Tuesday while eight of his colleagues had a miraculous escape. Park authorities said a lone rogue elephant had charged at the group. Robert William, 60, was killed while the others esc- aped. 1In …
Guwahati: A 62-year old tourist from the Netherlands was trampled to death by a wild elephant inside the famous Kaziranga National Park in Assam on Tuesday. The tourist has been identified as Robert Goldbach. A director of the National Park S N Buragohain informed that a lone wild elephant suddenly …
Shillong: Over 200 polling booths, mostly in the Garo hills region in Meghalaya, have been marked 'sensitive' not because they face any law and order problem but for fear of attacks by wild elephants. Apart from Garo Hills, which is along the Indo-Bangla border, the booths are located in the …
The paper presents the findings of 7year long field trial of a fodder plantation technique specially designed for enrichment of wildlife habitats by biological displacement of Lantana cover by bamboo in a Lantana-infested area. The field trial was carried out between 1995-96 and 2002-03 in Rajaji National Park.
PUDUKOTTAI: A 55-year old person, R. Rangarajan of Keezhamuthukaadu village, who was admitted to the Thanjavur Medical College and Hospital after being injured at the
It could have come from plants, thinks Karnataka Four wild elephants, found dead in Nanjangud, 25 km from Mysore, in November 2008, died of cyanide poisoning. Chemical analysis ordered by the Karnataka forest department has confirmed this. The deaths made the high court take notice for the first time of …
The man-animal conflict in the Sunderbans has touched scores of women tragically, leaving Jelepara a village of 'tiger widows' Trouble Prowling Jelepara village, in the Sunderbans, is known as the Village of Widows, because of the large number of its inhabitants killed by man-eating tigers Locals say on average tigers …
March 29: Elephant menace is a jumbo poll issue in four Assembly and two Lok Sabha constituencies in Srikakulam, Vizianagaram and Chittoor districts in the state. Tribals, the worst affected by elephant terror, are up in arms against political leaders for their apathy towards their problems. Elephants have been destroying …
Junagadh: A leopard that had fallen into a swimming pool at the farmhouse of Popat Vaghasiya in Visavadar taluka injured a farmer on Saturday morning before escaping into the forest. According to forest officials, the leopard had fallen into the swimming pool of Vaghasiya's farmhouse on Friday night. "We rushed …
Villagers of Kolapura (H D Kote taluk) in Mysore district, had the shock of their lives on Saturday morning, when a wild tusker entered their village. Chaos ensued as panicky people and cattle ran helter-skelter to escape the tusker. A number of cattle that were tied up in a shed …
Ahmedabad: Days after two leopards stalking Gandhinagar were caught, one more leopard has been spotted near Dehgam in Gandhinagar district in the last one month. Earlier this month, one leopard was caught from Kalol and another near Sant Sarovar dam in Gandhinagar. Both were sent to Sakkarbaug Zoo in Junagadh …
Panthera Pardus BEST SEEN AT: Gir National Park, Gujarat; Nagarhole National Park, Karnataka STATUS: Schedule I GOOD TO KNOW: Lives without water THE NAME
SUNGAI GELAM, Indonesia: Indonesia's tiger catchers have a double job - protecting humans from tigers, and tigers from humans. The elite teams of rangers and conservationists rush to the scene every time villagers report attacks or sightings of critically endangered Sumatran tigers. First, they calm the people. And then, if …
Alan Rabinowitz is the world's leading jaguar expert, and he has begun to realize his dream of creating a vast network of interconnected corridors and refuges extending from the U.S.-Mexico border into South America. It is known as Paseo del Jaguar
We discuss separate and integrated approaches to building scalable solar power plants and wildlife sanctuaries. Both solar power plants and wildlife sanctuaries need a lot of land. We quantify some of the requirements using various estimates of the rate of solar power production as well as the rate of adding …
The saltwater crocodile (SWC), Crocodylus porosus is perhaps the largest living reptile in the world. captive breeding of SWCs was initiated by the Forest Department of Orissa in 1975 at Dangmal, the Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary (BWLS). With increase in the SWC population, conflicts with humans and livestock also have been …
After five human kills, the Chief Wildlife Warden BK Patnaik declared the Lakhimpur tiger a maneater here on Thursday. The Chief Wildlife Warden, earlier in the day, has said that all options were being kept open in dealing with the rogue cat. The Forest department was forced to take the …
