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 …
AHMEDABAD: The census of leopards and sloth bears conducted in May this year has revealed that there are more leopards which have made revenue areas - the areas away from jungles close to human habitations - as their homes rather than safe and protected environment of forests. According to the …
BILASPUR: A herd of wild elephants destroyed houses of 'Pahadi Korwas', a protected tribe of Chhattisgarh, in Surguja district of north Chhattisgarh. The incident took place in Kirkima village under Lundra block of Surguja district. According to information, a herd of wild elephants has been wandering in the area for …
Greater Gir remains the last habitat of Asiatic lions on earth, and it seems to have no place in the Centre's Integrated Development of Wildlife Habitats (IDWH). Earlier, the UPA government had cold shouldered the Rs 234-crore proposal for long-term lion conservation, claiming so much money cannot be allocated for …
Wildlife agents authorized to eradicate a group of 11 wolves for repeated attacks on cattle in Washington state have hunted down and killed six animals from the condemned pack and are searching for the rest, a state game official said on Monday. State biologists fatally shot two members of the …
The wildlife wing of Forest Department in Rajasthan has floated an innovative programme to invite experts, entrepreneurs, technical graduates and interested persons to take up time-bound assignments as part of an internship which will enable the participants to provide critical inputs on policy and regulation in the natural resource management …
An international team of researchers makes the case that integrating multiple technologies could greatly increase our ability to study ecological patterns and processes across large landscapes and long timeframes, allowing for threats to protected areas to be better identified and mitigated. Traditional field inventories and other sampling strategies will always …
Imagine that years of drought have forced you to graze your cattle on sparse grass in an open desert landscape, far from permanent settlements. The nearest small shop is 40 kilometres (25 miles away), a journey normally made by donkey. Now imagine your one donkey is being mauled to death …
Authorities have killed nine bears in three days in a western Canadian city, a conservation officer said on Monday, warning that the death toll will rise if unsecured trash continues to draw the animals into residential areas. Dan Bartol, who helped kill the bears, said the animals were killed last …
Concerned over the increasing number of tigers in non-protected areas, wildlife conservationists have said that it was high time the forest department shifted its focus to these areas as tigers were most vulnerable here. As per estimates, Maharashtra's tiger reserves have 139 big cats while there were around 58 tigers …
According to State Forest minister, 1,024 people died between 2001 and 2016 across Assam in man-elephant conflicts As many as 1024 people died during the period from 2001 to 2016 due to human-elephant conflicts. State Forest and Environment Minister Pramila Rani Brahma revealed this in the Assembly today in a …
DEHRADUN: Titli Trust has made its finding public after conducting a joint survey with Wildlife Conservation Society on leopard afflicted forest divisions of the state for a year. In its observation, Trust has nullified perception of relation between shrinking habitat and prey base with increase in human-leopard conflict and, also …
In an effort to put an end to the rising human-animal conflict, an Indo-German team visited Nagarahole National Park in the taluk to study the possibilities of finding new methods to mitigate the problem on Thursday. Speaking to Deccan Herald, Stephen Burg, Conservator of Forests, Germany, said that they are …
Report says alarmingly shrinking forest land poses a threat to the animal Despite the growth in population of tigers in the country and elsewhere, a global report has warned that the big cats are still not out of the woods due to shrinking forest land which are converted into motorways …
Experts will visit Kodagu, Nagarahole, Bandipur from Aug 10 The incidents of wild animals straying into human habitations have increased in Karnataka over the years. India is in the process of bagging Rs 30 crore (four million Euro) grant from the German government to mitigate the human-wildlife conflict. To ascertain …
Karnataka will soon experiment with the hugely successful South African birth control technique to check the growing elephant population in the state, in the face of increasing human-elephant conflict. "We had recently submitted a proposal to the Karnataka government, seeking funds to take up the experiment, and it has been …
DEHRADUN: In a bid to control monkey menace in the state, the Uttarakhand forest department in collaboration with the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) is going to introduce a project, pegged as the first in the country, in which female monkeys will be given oral immuno-contraceptive medicine, Porcine Zona Pellucida …
The killing of two ‘rogue’ elephants in West Bengal over the past one month has brought the issue of growing human-elephant conflict in south Bengal to the fore. On July 5, a large team of forest officials, along with professional hunters, tracked down a tusker at Beliatore in Bankura after …
Union Environment Minister Anil Dave on Tuesday said he will meet 60 parliamentarians from states in the Western Ghat region following Kasturirangan Committee recommendations on declaring certain areas as ecologically sensitive areas. "I will meet all MPs from states in Western Ghat region before August 12. We have more than …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Human-Animal Conflict, 02/08/2016. The Central Government provides partial financial assistance to the States/ Union Territory Governments under the Centrally Sponsored Schemes of 'Project Tiger' and ’Project Elephant', inter alia, for the management of human wildlife conflict. Details of funds released to State Governments under …
Rural farmers of Kanthaladu and Thalayadu regions have called upon the Forest Department to speed up measures for the proposed solar fencing project aimed at protecting agricultural lands close to forest fringes. Several farmers had recently faced huge crop loss following encroachment by wild animals on farm fields. Though some …
