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 …
Reported to have been injured earlier, the stray tiger was again shot at by Foresters in the forests of Kumarganj tehsil of Faizabad district early on Tuesday morning. Despite the injury on the shoulder, it jumped towards a nullah and virtually disappeared within the thick foliage. The fact whether the …
Five pointer crossed dogs were used to track the stray tiger at Kumarganj tehsil of Faizabad district on Monday. However, the search turned out to be a difficult task with the dogs getting frightened of the elephants and vice-versa. Also with the five dog handlers having to mount the elephants …
DODAMARG & SAWANTWADI: On the back of the recent border row between Maharashtra and Karnataka over Belgaum, here comes a territorial dispute of another sort. The Maharashtra Forest Department is in a bind over what to do with three elephants that strayed over from neighbouring Karnataka and caused havoc in …
Orissa plans to manage them WITH wildlife habitat getting fragmented, elephants are more frequently straying into urban areas and causing mayhem. On January 1, a herd of elephants entered the Berhampur University campus and went on a rampage near campus staff quarters. The son of a staff member was injured. …
Coimbatore: All resources within the command of the official machinery will be put to the best use to mitigate the man-animal conflict, said R. Kannan, Conservator of Forests, Coimbatore Circle, here on Thursday. He was speaking at a stakeholders
Mumbai: The state is all set to get its first leopard safari. Theforest department has decided to set up such safaris at three places in the state -- near Belwandi in Ahmednagar district, at Manikdoh in Pune district and at Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai. The Central Zoo Authority passed …
lucknow: Even as the Forest Department has its hands full trying to track down two stray tigers in Ghazipur and Faizabad, another one surfaced near Tanda village of Lakhimpur Kheri district and killed a 16-year-old boy on Sunday. Pillu Singh was killed by the tiger, which Forest officials suspect, strayed …
Independent evaluations of the impact and legacy of large donor-funded integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) are critically important but rarely undertaken. The India Eco-Development Project around Periyar Tiger Reserve (PTR-IEDP) in southern India received US$ 6.0 million, of which 43.2% was spent on community-based conservation activities. The PTR-IEDP was …
The Bangladesh Tiger Action Plan (BTAP) marks the beginning of a structured approach to achieving long-term conservation of tigers in Bangladesh. The BTAP is a policy level document that provides a vision, goals, and objectives to guide an integrated and focused tiger conservation programme. The vision is to ensure protected …
This report assessed the extent and magnitude of Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) - Human Conflicts of Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve (DHR), Nepal from May 2007 to December 2007 through field surveys and semi-structured questionnaire surveys in order to identify the high conflict zones and the causes for conflicts for mitigation …
Sathyamangalam Forest Division takes steps to reduce threat from elephants Preventive measure: Solar fencing in Sathyamangalam Forest Division has considerably brought down conflict between humans and animals in the region.
Jasrota Wildlife Sanctuary, with an area of 10.04 km2, is situated on the right bank of the Ujh river in district Kathua, J&K; State. The mammals of Jasrota Wildlife Sanctuary represent 4.3% of the total mammals (372 species) recorded by Hossetti (2002) from India. The observed mammalian diversity in the …
Lucknow: The forest department has flunked the test on operation tiger once again. The villagers behaving rowdily around the area where the tiger wandered into the agri-fields in Ghazipur division of Varanasi showed that no lesson has been learnt from the incident of Barabanki. A boy was killed by a …
The Sundarbans of India and Bangladesh is the only mangrove in the world where tigers still live. The Sundarbans has been under various forms of management for about 2,000 years, and is classified as a Tiger Conservation Landscape of Global Priority. Little is known about the Sundarbans tigers, which are …
The forest department has flunked the test on operation tiger once again. The villagers behaving rowdily around the area where the tiger wandered into the agri-fields in Ghazipur division of Varanasi showed that no lesson has been learnt from the incident of Barabanki. A boy was killed by a tiger …
With the forest hunters desperately looking for the stray tiger to gun it down, the wildlife experts have slammed the move.Instead, they say, that it is a garb adopted by the forest department to cover its inability in catching the animal despite repeated attempts. It is a perfectly healthy and …
Neha Shukla | TNN Lucknow: Luck seems on its side, at least for now. Ever since the shooting orders were issued, forest hunters have not made a sighting of the stray tiger. But, they feel the animal should now run for its life. Its only chance to survive is the …
Lucknow: Both the agencies work towards the same purpose - conservation of the wildlife. One is shouting foul as the other wants to kill the stray tiger which has been running for life for the last one month.The shoot-at-sight orders of the Chief Wildlife Warden could end the big cat
