Affidavit filed by the Chief Wildlife Warden, Assam in the matter of news item titled "the last feral horses in India" appearing in Mongabay, November 5, 2024. The matter relates to the critically endangered status of feral horses in the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park as well as of smuggling of these …
COUNTRY’s FIRST: Fifty-four personnel were given three-month training to provide them with skills such as how to survive in the jungle and use of weapons like SLR, assault rifles, LMG and grenades, The STPF unit will be divided into three groups and will be solely responsible for taking anti-poaching measures, …
Armed commandos are to be deployed in the jungles of southern India to deter poachers from capturing and killing endangered tigers, state government officials announced on Wednesday. The 54-strong Special Tiger Protection Force will patrol the two main tiger reserves of Bandipur and Nagarhole national parks on the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu …
Depletion of bamboo clusters in Kerala’s Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary is threatening to make the coming summer hard for several species of wildlife there and in the adjoining forests that constitute the Nilgiris biosphere. Experts say that the phenomenon could even lead to a famine as far as Wayanad jungles’ herbivores …
The dried bamboo groves inside the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary and the adjacent sanctuaries such as the Rajiv Gandhi National Park, Nagarhole, and the Bandipur Tiger Reserve in Karnataka are posing a threat to the wildlife population of the Nilgiri Biosphere, a major tiger and elephant habitat. The bamboo groves in …
Public can contribute to the corpus; thrust on education, research Tiger conservation projects need not starve for funds henceforth. The State government has set up exclusive tiger conservation funds to finance conservation activities at tiger reserves. The State has five tiger reserves – Bandipur, Nagarhole, Dandeli (Anshi), Bhadra and Biligiranganathaswamy …
Bombay Natural History Society has conducted the survey in wildlife sanctuaries in and around the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve A field survey on the vulture population in the wildlife sanctuaries in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve and adjacent sanctuaries, conducted by the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), has found that the number …
Relocation from protected areas is among the hotly debated issues in Indian wildlife conservation. Though the number of people displaced from inviolate areas for wildlife is less compared to the displacement caused by other development projects, the fate of those ousted from protected areas is often a cause for friction …
An elephant was found with a gun shot wound while another died in two separate incidents in the State on Tuesday. A 10-year-old female elephant was found injured with gun shot at Mettluhola near Nagarahole National Park. It is suspected that farmers on the edge of Veeranahosahalli range might have …
P M Raghunandan, Bangalore, April 19, DH News Service: Environmentalists fighting against the development of the Mysore-Mananthavadi road cutting through Nagarahole reserve forest, have finally won their decade-old battle. The State Government has reluctantly given up the road project in the interest of wildlife. The Public Works Department (PWD) has …
Amidst reports of tiger deaths, there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel with wildlife officials spotting over 112 big cat cubs in national parks across the country.
Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa has stated that the recent fires in Nagarahole national park, Chamundi hills and B R Hills have not harmed wildlife. Law Minister S Suresh Kumar who read out a statement on behalf of the Chief Minister in the Legislative Assembly on Friday, said fire had …
Illegal quarrying is in progress in Nagarhole National Park limits right under the supervision of the Forest Department. Quarry query: Quarrying in progress in Nagarahole National Park. DH PhotoIn what could be termed as blatant violation of Wildlife Protection Act by none other than the Forest Department, boulders are being …
In a bid to boost tiger conservation in its natural habitat, a young tigress has been relocated to Antharasanthe forest in Nagarahole national park. A team of experts led by D Yathish Kumar, in charge Deputy Conservator of Forests at Nagarahole National park tranquilised the big cat and released it …
