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 …
Thick vegetation, garbage dumped around the airport by residents makes it an ideal feeding ground Kumar Manish | TNN Ahmedabad: Authorities of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport are a worried lot with reports of bird hits on the rise. And, not just birds, even stray dogs and monkeys can be …
Forest officials on Thursday started operation to trap the monkey, after residents of Baye-Surla in Bicholim strongly protested against forest department
D Daniel Raj | ENS ELEPHANT TRAMPLES MAN TO DEATH IN KOVAITHE pent-up rage over the slumberous attitude of the forest department in protecting the people prone to elephant attack boiled over at Somayanur, when villagers resorted to a road roko on Wednesday. The latest victim was a 60year-old Rangasamy, …
THE Centre must envisage a new scheme to provide grants to farmers for erecting solar- powered electric fencing along the forest area to protect their crops from wild animals, AIADMK MP N R Govindarajar has said. Talking to Express, he said the usual complaints received from the farmers of Gobi, …
Shimla: Grappling with the problem of monkeys and other wild animals destroying crops, the Himachal Pradesh government has requested the Centre to include the appointment of animal chasers under its flagship NREGA scheme.
The villagers of Masagali, Nidugodu, Beranagodu and Holadagadde in Avathi hobli urged the Chikmagalur Circle Forest Conservator Avathar Singh to protect the lives of people and crops from wild elephants. A delegation led by Grameena Jagritha Sene met Forest Conservator and informed him that four wild elephants are attacking the …
M.J. PRABU FARMERS IN India and abroad face serious threats from pests, natural calamities, thefts, damages by animals and other types of crop losses, resulting in lower yields. Most often, none of the steps taken to counter the problems are foolproof.
A herd of wild elephants have destroyed banana plantation of one R Rangappa at Nayakana palya near Savandurga. Two wild elephants at Savandurga. DH photoThe elephants from Savandurga reserve forest are creating havoc in the surrounding areas. Says progressive farmer Narasimhamurthy, who lost his ready to be harvested banana plantation …
KRISHNAGIRI: Efforts by the forest officials to push the elephant herd into the forests went in vain for the third day on Wednesday. D. Arun, District Forest Officer, told The Hindu that the herd, which came out from the Poyyappatti hills around 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday through Karadithittu, was pushed …
COMPENSATION: Forests Minister N. Selvaraj handing over a cheque to P. Anandan, son of Pachamuthu, the forest guard who lost his life, on Saturday. KRISHNAGIRI: A forest guard was trampled to death by a wild elephant near Singarpettai in Krishnagiri district on Friday night. State Forests Minister N. Selvaraj placed …
JORHAT, July 15: More than a 100 strong elephant herd which has been creating havoc in areas of North-West Jorhat since last month is now exploring the isles along the Brahmaputra. Forest Department sources said that, the herd moved from Kartik Sapori to Aruna Sapori last night and that forests …
Forest officials have taken measures to check wild elephant menace in Lingdalli in Tarikere taluk. Officials have been directed to protect the crops, said MLA D S Suresh. Speaking after inaugurating various developmental works in Nandibattalu in Lingadalli, he said action plan has been prepared to help the residents of …
The high court has asked the MCD to pay Rs 10 lakh compensation to a woman, whose husband was killed when a stray bull had attacked him in 2005 In a recent order, Justice S. Ravindra Bhat directed the MCD to pay the compensation as the incident occurred due to …
Villagers of Yadavare, Kusubooru and Aigooru under the banner of Yadavare Elephant Action Committeee organised a protest in front of the Forest Department Office recently, blaming that officials of ignoring them even when their farms were being destroyed by rogue elephants. Villagers said that their demand for solar fences from …
Deputy Conservator of Forest B B Mallesh has informed that the Central government has approved the setting up of Elephant Project Directorate in Madikeri to curb the tiff between the wild elephants and human beings. The office will be set up soon, he said addressing a news conference at Aranya …
Tribal Education institution Head M B Prabhu has urged the Minister for Environment and Forest Jairam Ramesh to take steps to set up Directorate of Elephant Project in Kodagu and control elephant menace through public-private participation. In a memorandum, Prabhu said that there is a need to solve the elephant …
