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 …
In a bid to ease the man-elephant conflict, the Centre is planning a scheme of planting crops on elephant corridors, which elephants do not feed on. This was informed at a discussion on the problem on man-animal conflicts during the foundation day celebration of the Assam Academic Centre (AAC) at …
The AP forest department has decided to create 1,000 water holes in reserve forests to ensure that thirsty panthers don't stray into human habitations and get killed. Forest officials will be particularly focusing on forests with a high population of panthers located in the fringe areas of cities. They will …
A tigress killed a man in the Mohraina forest range of Lakhimpur Kheri district in Uttar Pradesh, official sources said here today. Ramesh (30) had gone to the forest to collect firewood on Friday. When he did not return, members of his family tried to trace him. They spotted a …
In fresh incidents of elephant depredation, as many as 15 houses were destroyed and two cows killed by a marauding herd in Katonibari Tea Estate and Gangapar areas near Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary last night. According to sources, the jumbos entered the labour lines in the tea estate by crossing over …
"Help save rhinos,' a poster appealed. A photograph of a severely-bloodied rhino loomed out of it. We were at Jakhalbanda, a regular halt for buses taking visitors to the Kaziranga National Park. It was peak tourist season, visitors were there in droves but the atmosphere seemed tense. I did not …
it's a bad time to be a rhino in Assam's Kaziranga National Park. Twenty four animals have fallen to the poachers' hack since early last year. Poaching is, of course, not new to Kaziranga
Cliche is a feature of bad journalism, it is said, but when it comes to the reporting of stories about country folk living in the human habitats close to the natural habitats of wild creatures in rural Sri Lanka pouring out their troubles to the media over the infiltration of …
Villagers of Motu Sangam in Gandhari mandal killed a leopard which strayed into their village on Thursday afternoon by raining blows with strong clubs. The died instantaneously. Upon being informed that the big cat had entered the village forest and police officials rushed to the spot. However, it was chased …
A herd of wild elephant destroyed a number of huts and granaries of villagers in Bordoibam village under Barbaruah Police station last night. According to villagers, an herd of elephants comprising of 16 adults and 4 calves entered the village started causing chaos among the settlements
Human-wildlife conflict (HWC) is an increasingly significant obstacle to the conservation of wildlife. The growing body of HWC literature tends to focus on biological, economic and local aspects associated with HWC. The factors driving HWC at the local level are, however, shaped in turn by numerous other factors, including laws …
Scientists have discovered an unusual elephant repellent, which they claim can save hundreds of acres of paddy farms from the invasion of pachyderms. ARC-11511 will keep away elephant herds from attacking rice plantations in the country. After everything failed to bring down incidents of elephants marauding rice plantations, especially in …
The Forest Department will not carry out the culling of monkeys at its own level in view of the religious sentiments of the people but grant permission to kill them to farmers whose crops are being damaged. Replying to the debate on cut motion pertaining to the demands of the …
TRAPPED: The panther in a cage after it was captured from a private house in Rajahmundry on Tuesday. RAJAHMUNDRY: Sneaking into a residential area, a panther sent the people into a tizzy for over eight hours in this busy town on Tuesday. It entered the bathroom of a house in …
A male panther aged 8-10 years old, strayed into the city from the thick forests of probably the Seetanagaram-Prathipadu areas in the early hours of Tuesday. It was first noticed in the early hours at about 12.30 am on Tuesday by one of the staff at the Central Prison as …
Four persons were seriously injured when a leopard attacked villagers in Sibsagar district on Sunday, police sources said. The leopard attacked the villagers of Misajan when they were on their way to the fields. The injured were admitted to the Sibsagar Civil Hospital. This is the third case of a …
The state government on Friday admitted in the Assembly that it has failed in fighting the nilgai menace, causing enormous harm to the farmers in a large number of villages of Gujarat. Answering a question from BJP MLA Ambalal Rohit from Sojitra on the government's action to stop nilgais from …
Two men were tram pled to death by an angry wild elephant after another pachyderm fell into an irrigation well while being chased away by people of a village in Krishnagiri district on Saturday. According to wildlife sources a herd of 15 wild elephants strayed into Muthampatti village in the …
