This Indian Gaur walking past the Ooty Road in Bandipur National Park unperturbed was captured by SOM photographer M.N. Lakshminarayana Yadav yesterday.
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Tiger deaths in Bandipur: Lab reports confirm big cats not poisoned
February 20, 2018Gundlupet: The reports from the Forensic Lab at Madivala and Veterinary Science Lab in Bengaluru have confirmed that the unnatural deaths of two tigers and an elephant in Bandipur Tiger Reserve (BTR) were not due to poisoning. The two laboratories have submitted their reports on the animal deaths which took place on Jan. 25 to…
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Tiger found dead in Bandipur
February 6, 2018Gundlupet: A carcass of a tiger in a decomposed state has been found in Hongalli Forest area of Maddur Forest Range in Bandipur Reserve Forest yesterday. The tiger is said to be about six-years-old and is suspected to be dead about two to three days ago as there were wounds on its body. Forest Department…
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Fire-proofing Bandipur
February 3, 2018By M.T. Yogesh Kumar Pics by M.N. Lakshminarayana Yadav Learning from bitter lessons from last year’s forest inferno where a young forest guard was charred to death in Bandipur, the Forest Department this time has strengthened its fire-fighting capabilities to combat forest fires that tend to ravage large swathes of forest during summer. This Weekend…
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Four elephants from Bandipur arrive at Mysuru Zoo
January 30, 2018Mysuru: The Mysuru Zoo, which boasts of housing exotic animals and birds, received four elephant calves from Bandipur Reserve Forest on Thursday to be exchanged for a pair of African Rhinos from Singapore Zoo under Animal Exchange Programme. Mysuru Zoo Executive Director C. Ravishankar, speaking to Star of Mysore said that the Zoo received four…
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Two tigers found dead in Bandipur
January 25, 2018Gundlupet: Two tigers, a male and a female were found dead in the Bandipur Tiger Reserve near Hangala in Hinikere of Gundlupet taluk. As soon as the news reached the Forest Department in the early hours of today, Conservator of Forest, Bandipur Tiger Reserve, Ambadi Madhav, Veterinary Doctor Dr. Nagaraju, RFO Puttaswamy, Wildlife Warden Chelavaraj,…
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Tiger census begins at Bandipur
January 8, 2018Gundlupet: The Forest officials of Bandipur Tiger Reserve along with volunteers began the Tiger Census-2018 this morning. The census will be held till Jan. 13 at Bandipur and Nagarahole and from Jan. 22 to 27 (the date might extend till Feb. 3) in territorial forest divisions. Nearly 60 volunteers and about 250 forest staff will…
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Tigress found dead in Bandipur
December 26, 2017Gundlupet: The Forest Department personnel have found a carcass of an eight-year-old tigress at Moolehole Forest Range coming under Bandipur Reserve Forest yesterday. Ruling out the possibility of poaching, Bandipur Project Tiger Director Ambadi Madhav said that the tigress had died about three days ago due to infighting and added that the post mortem reports…
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Walkathon by tiger family in Bandipur
December 11, 2017Gundlupet: Visitors who had gone on a safari at Bandipur Tiger Reserve were in for a treat when they saw a tiger family comprising an adult tigress and her three cubs walking majestically on the safari route on Friday evening. The death of ‘Prince’ under mysterious circumstances, who used to appear in front of visitors…
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Presence of suspected naxals in Bandipur
November 23, 2017Gundlupet: Following certain information that suspected naxals had entered Bandipur National Park and surrounding places, the Anti-Naxal Force (ANF), District Armed Reserve (DAR) Police and Forest Department personnel launched a joint combing operation in Bandipur yesterday. The Police have dismissed possibility of Naxal activities in Bandipur and however, there is fear that combing operations may…
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