Animal Menace

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding illegal stone mining in Palamu district, Jharkhand, 07/04/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of News item titled: 5 Jharkhand forest officers attacked by Stone mafia, appearing in The Times of India dated 24.03.2025. The application was taken up on the basis of a news item published in the Times of …

Count confusion over pugmarks in Bharatpur

Anindo Dey | TNN Jaipur: There could be more than one tiger on the prowl in Rajasthan and neighbouring states from the Ranthambore National Park. The suspicion grew stronger after forest officials on Sunday discovered the carcass of a blue bull in Bharatpur. On a closer examination, not only tiger …

Tiger trail now leads to Ghana sanctuary

Exactly one week after it strayed into Uttar Pradesh, a missing tiger from Ranthambhore was believed to have been spotted in the Ghana Wildlife Sanctuary on Monday. It was last Monday when a tiger from Ranthambhore had strayed to the Fara village, situated between Mathura and Agra districts of Uttar …

Wild jumbos destroy property, crops

A herd of wild elephants destroyed standing crops and property worth several lakhs at Hodachahalli, Agani, Maragunda, Hanabalu hobli villages of the taluk recently. The main entrance gate and compound wall of Bhairaweshwara temple was damaged by the jumbos at Maragunda hills in Mudigere- Sakleshpur border region on same night. …

No trace of Rbore tiger in Mathura

Villagers Living In Fear Anindo Dey & Neha Lalchandani | TNN Jaipur/New Delhi: The strayed tiger spotted near Mathura on Monday continued to elude forest officials for the second day. On Tuesday, the animal, identified as a young sub-adult male, was spotted about two to three times at different spots …

Monsoon favourable, but rodent invasion worries farmers

Kohima, Sept 15: Although a favourable monsoon this year brought cheers to farmers after last year

Wild elephant menace: Labourers stage stir

Urging the government to contain wild elephant menace and to announce compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the family of those who were killed in wild elephant attack, estate labourers under the aegis of United Plantation Workers Union staged a protest in Fort premises on Tuesday. The plantation workers took …

Carcasses of more than 20 wild boars found

P. Sudhakar Department of Forest plans to provide solar fencing TIRUNELVELI: The recent retrieval of carcasses of wild boars and sambar deer from the Tamirabharani and also from the bushes on the reserve forest periphery seems to be only a tip of the iceberg as good number of carcasses of …

Rogue elephants damage crops near Birur

Birur, August 20, DH News Service: Two rogue tuskers have destroyed jowar and sunflower fields on Yagati road near Birur. The rogue tuskers came from Arasikere on Thursday night and on Friday morning they were seen near Birur. At about 8 am, they entered the jowar field of Dogehalli Thimmarayappa …

Fresh pugmarks of leopard found

Aug. 12: With fresh pugmarks of a female leopard noticed along the Tirumala footpath on Wednesday night, the Tirupati wildlife division authorities stepped up their efforts to trap it. The chief conservator of forests (wildlife), Mr P. Mallikarjuna Rao, said on Thursday that the animal

Solve elephant menace, farmers urge MLA

Hundreds of villagers of Hanabalu hobli of Sakleshpur taluk submitted a memorandum to MLA H K Kumaraswamy urging him to put an end to the menace of wild elephants in the region.MLA H K Kumaraswamy inspecting agriculture fields damaged by wild elephants at Acchanahalli village in Hanbalu hobli in Sakleshpur …

Engg students develop device to track elephants

R Haldorai | ENS SOON, residents living near forest will be relieved from the wild elephant menace. A Kovai-based engineering college and the Forest department have jointly developed a prototype device to detect the intrusion of elephants into agricultural fields, railway tracks or farms. Professors R Jayaparvathy and SJ Sugumar …

Marauding elephants wreak havoc in Majuli

JORHAT, July 29: Three persons were trampled by wild elephants at Majuli late last night taking the toll of those killed by elephants to six in the district this year. A Forest Department official said that a couple

Bamboo flowering kicking rat reproduction into overdrive

AIZAWL, July 26: The relationship between plagues of rats and bamboo flowering was the focus of a workshop held in Mizoram. At the workshop, Dr F Lalnunmawia, an assistant professor at Mizoram University

Villagers demand permanent solution to wild elephant menace

''Let the government decide the value for the death of those rogue elephants which indulge in destruction. The villagers are ready to pay for the death of the elephants''

Increased herd of elephants creating havoc in saporis

JORHAT, July 16: The Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) submitted a memorandum to the Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife) seeking emergent steps to stop depredation by wild elephants in the three districts of Jorhat, Golaghat and Sivasagar. The youth body suggested that since the elephant herd, for the last …

Elephant menace in Banakal hobli

Tusker menace has started again at Banakal hobli and this time crops worth lakhs of rupees have been destroyed at Kotrekere village in the hobli alone. Rogue elephants have been barging into plantations and destroying coffee, cardamom, banana, areca and coconut crops. Though forest officials have been deployed in Kotrekere …

Jumbo menace hits life

SALEPUR: Residents in the western part of Cuttack district are spending sleepless nights due to rising elephant menace in the region. Besides damaging crops, the animals have been injuring people, particularly in Athagarh and Gurudijhatia region. On Monday, 40-year-old Pradip Dalai of Rautarapur village was injured when an elephant attacked …

Report on wild elephants within 45 days

The expert committee which made a study on the rift between wild elephants and human beings at Chamarajanagara, Mysore and Kodagu districts will submit a scientific report within one and half month to Central government. Speaking to reporters, Expert Committee Head Dr B Gangwar, after visiting wild elephant menace region …

Wild elephants worry villagers

The farmers in Basaravalli and surrounding areas are worried over the rise in wild elephant menace, and loss of crops. hopeless Wild elephants destroyed crops in Basaravalli and surrounding areas. DH photoThe forest department has not met those who have lost their crops, property last year owing to the wild …

Elephants attack fields in Dihingapar

JORHAT, May 14: Wild elephants unable to forage on the lush green vegetation on Naga hills due to ongoing jhum cultivation ransacked a number of fields in the Dihingapar area. A few houses of workers at the Kathonibari tea estate and the shop of one Purna Bora of Meleng were …

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