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 …
Bharatiya Janata Party Kishan Morcha State general secretary and MLA Alkesh Arya said that every year cases of crop damage, loss of cattle life and loss of funds come to the fore due to wildlife. There is loss of crores of rupees. Arya said that in these cases of losses, …
DHARMAPURI: Swaran Singh, Chairman and Managing Director, Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) Board, gave instructions to officials to give maximum provision to protect the water treatment plants of the Hogenakkal Drinking Water and Fluorosis Mitigation Project from wild elephants from the nearby reserve forests. Mr. Singh inspected the …
PALAKKAD: The straying of wild elephants into human habitats has become a menace for locals residing at Malampuzha, Kava, Padalikaad, Kottekad, Venoli and Attapadi areas. Acres of cultivated land were also damaged. Recently two tribals were killed by elephants in Attapadi and at Adupu colony in Malampuzha. The Forest Department …
Kohima, May 3: A high-level team led by the Director of Agriculture Department of Nagaland and senior officials recently visited various areas of Mokokchung district to assess the bamboo flowering in those areas. Official sources said the team, which has visited the forest areas of the district, found that the …
The Allahabad high court has issued show cause notices to three officials for noncompliance of an order, asking them to initiate steps to drive away dangerous monkeys from a village in the district. The officials who have been issued the notice include Pilibhit district magistrate and Vishalpur SDM, reports our …
were trying to chase away the animal, who was strolling in a tobacco farm on outskirts of the village. Seven persons have also received minor injuries. While Bhadran Congress MLA Rajendrasinh Parmar and other office-bearers of Anand
The farmers and plantation growers are having sleepless nights due to the rogue elephant menace in the region. The pack of rogue tuskers have already destroyed large areas of cultivated fields, areca and coffee crops. A pack of four to five tuskers coming from Bhadra Reserve Forest are said to …
METTUR: Farmers of villages in and around Kolathur have urged the Department of Forest to erect solar fence to prevent elephant herd from straying into their villages and fields. They claimed that since River Palar was fast drying up, the elephant herd in search of water had started straying into …
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO The authorities of the famous Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) in Orissa's Mayurbhanj district have pressed into service three domesticated elephants to keep a watch on the movement of a herd of rouge jumbos, which has been causing depredations at some villages in the locality. The captive elephants …
To a distance 1,400 km along borders of reserve forests JUMBO PROBLEM: Forest officers explaining elephant movement to Forest Minister N. Selvaraj at Sattaparai near Palani on Friday. Revenue Minister I Periasamy and Collector M. Vallalar look on. PALANI: Solar electric fence would be installed to a distance 1,400 km …
Tiruvannamalai: The Forest Department is planning to use microchip implant to tackle elephant menace which affects people living in villages situated on the peripheries of Jawadu Hills, particularly farmers. Three elephants belonging to a herd died recently in separate incidents. They also killed two men, damaged crops and several huts …
Wild elephant menace has again surfaced in the foothills of Shiradi Ghat. A wild elephant has caused much damage to areca and banana plantations in Paravarakotya of Shiradi village on Wednesday night. Pepper, banana and areca crops of farmers E M Cyriac and P J Mathew have been destroyed. The …
ERODE: Farmers from Kannapalli and Illipali villages near Ammapettai, Bhavani, have petitioned the district administration seeking assistance to protect their crops from wild boar. In a release, the local head of Tamizhaga Vivasayeegal Sangam, K. Ramesh, says the 300-odd small and marginal farmers of the area, who cultivate groundnut, maize, …
Residents of Dhave-Sattari have expressed fear over the presence of a leopard in the village since the last few days. According to the residents, the leopard has attacked many dogs in the village since the last few days.
Kandeketiya, a village in Badulla, is constantly fighting the elephant menace that had prevailed for the last 30 years. Residents here say that the fear of being killed by an elephant has overwhelmed them for many years and that they cannot carry on with their livelihood as a result of …
JORHAT, Dec 30: Wild elephants destroyed as many as 33 houses of Kankan sapori in Majuli last night. A house was also gutted in fire in the attack. However, no casualty have been reported so far. According to the information, after chasing away the strong herd of wild elephants comprising …
JORHAT, Dec 29: One person was injured at Dabur Sapori after the Forest Department chased the herd of wild elephants away from the Jhanjimukh area across the Brahmaputra last night. Ignorant of the herd
The herd was chased away to nearby Bevanatham forest by farmers KRISHNAGIRI: Farmers in Kelamangalam area, near Denkanikottai, are under the grip of fear over wild elephant menace. Six elephants from reserve forests, near Denkanikottai, entered the nearby fields last week and damaged the crops that were ready for harvest. …
JORHAT, Nov 26: Wild elephants went on a rampage at the Jhanjimukh area here recently, destroying fields of paddy and gorging on the sheaves of harvested crops. People of the area near Dhekiakhowa Bornamghar who have been spending sleepless nights were helped by forest guards to chase away the 70-80 …
JORHAT, Nov 12: More than 100-strong herd of wild elephants which has been terrorizing villagers in upper Assam for the last few years is back at the Nimati-Hatisal and Kokilamukh areas along the Brahmaputra here. Villagers, apprehensive of the herd ravaging the ripe paddy, are keeping a night long vigil …
