Conducted over the course of a year in 2017-18, the All Kerala Tiger Monitoring Programme identified a total of 176 individuals, 75 of them within the confines of the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary (WWS) alone, based on camera-trap images. Kerala’s forest cover may be extremely fragmented and prone to recurrent human-animal …
The Wayanad wildlife sanctuary, the second largest in the state and part of one of the most important tiger landscapes, is facing a `Latin American' invasion these days. A rapidly proliferating invasive tree species Senna spectabilis introduced, arguably , as part of social forestry activities some 15 years …
The decline in organic farming in the state is a concern, said Manoj Kumar Menon, executive director of Bangalore-based International Competence Centre for Organic Agriculture (ICCOA), an organization which helps organic farmers’ access opportunities in the market. “The area under organic farming in Kerala was 15,790 hectares in the financial …
The state's first rewilding experiment through voluntary relocation of people, who had inhabited wildlife sanctuaries, has come to fruition as the area is now teeming with wild animals. The settlements in Golur and Ammavayal villages in Wayanad were left by its inhabitants in 2012. The 54 families from the two …
With the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report identifying coastal countries as among those likely to be most affected by climate change, Kerala's low-lying coastal districts are said to be among the most-vulnerable ones in the country . The state government has assigned experts to chalk out future climate …
Area is a major biodiversity hotspot Public protest is brewing over the move to set up a granite quarry in Munduparakunnu on the Manukkunnu hills in the Mepadi grama panchayat area in the district. The area is a major biodiversity hotspot in the Western Ghats. A four-member team from Mukkom …
India’s tiger reserves have been witness to devastating forest fires many of which have been triggered by the timber lobby mafia. The catastrophic fire at the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary (WSS) in Kerala some weeks ago took four days of massive firefighting. The report of senior vigilance officer to the Kerala …
A 2010 survey conducted by the Scheduled Tribes Development Department had found that nearly half of the total deaths in the ST communities over the previous five years were premature or unnatural. The department recently prepared a state-level socio-economic status report based on the survey data which is yet to …
The existing measure to mitigate man-animal conflict in the forest-fringed district of Wayanad have failed miserably, said a report by greens and wildlife scientists. The report submitted to the state and central governments has called for introduction of more participatory and community- based mechanisms to address the issue. The report …
The Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has virtually abandoned hundreds of families who had voluntarily offered to relinquish their ancestral land situated inside the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary (WWS) to make place for wildlife, dealing a blow to the rare conservation mindset shown by the people. Even as the …
Basic Facilities Have Been Denied To 100-Odd Families In Wayanad's Chettiyalathur Village Kozhikode: For the residents of Chettiyalathur village in Wayanad, voting has remained a valuable right even if they have not received anything much in return over six decades since independence. Electricity, roads, hospital, telephone or even newspapers, name …
The Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary of Kerala is located in one of the most important tiger landscapes in the world harbouring perhaps the largest contiguous tiger population in India. Apart from tigers, these forests are home to a diverse array of floral and faunal species underlining the status of the Western …
Vechur cow conservation golden jubilee celebrated A rise in exotic fish species in inland water bodies including rivers, paddy fields, and low lands of the district is threatening the existence of local fish varieties here, an expert has said. Deposits of fish fingerlings of exotic varieties such as Rohu, Katla, …
Manifesto Calls For New Expert Committee Thiruvananthapuram: In a bid to reap maximum benefit from the Gadgil-Kasturirangan confusion in Kerala, the CPM has promised to stop the implementation of both reports and set up a broadbased expert committee to study the issue of conserving Western Ghats. The suggestion is part …
Cages Could Help Resolve Man-Animal Conflicts The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has come out with a tiger trap-cumtransfer cage (TTTC) that can be used in capturing tigers that stray out of the forests and tiger reserves in the state. The TTTC has a unique SMS facility that would send out …
State severely threatened by climate change, says State Action Plan on Climate Change Alappuzha, Palakkad, Wayanad and Idukki districts are climate change hotspots in Kerala, with a high degree of vulnerability to natural hazards like flood and drought and impact on biodiversity and human life. The State Action Plan on …
Nearly 300 hectares destroyed in blaze Additional Chief Conservator of Forests (Vigilance) C.S. Yalakki has said that the fire that destroyed nearly 300 hectares of forests in Wayanad district on Sunday was “man-made.” In a preliminary report to Forest Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan on Monday, the officer said “the cause of …
Acute Summer, Forest Fires Force Forest Department Decision The state forest department is planning to close down some of its major wildlife sanctuaries and parks following the onset of acute summer and increasing incidents of forest fires in the last few weeks. The Wayanad and Parambikulam wildlife sanctuaries and the …
The state forest department is planning to close down some of its major wildlife sanctuaries and parks following the onset of acute summer and increasing incidents of forest fires in the last few weeks. The Wayanad and Parambikulam wildlife sanctuaries and the Eravikulam National Park will be out of bounds …
The state government on Wednesday submitted a detailed 20-page final report on the state's response on Kasturirangan review committee report to the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF). "We have made it clear in the report that regions that have human inhabitation, farm lands, plantations, hospital and dairy farms should …
The latest camera trap study of the tiger population in Wayanad conducted by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) for the state forest department shows the 344.44 square km sanctuary having a tiger abundance of 38 big cats. Significantly, the survey shows that majority of Wayanad’s tigers camera-trapped in the survey …
