Mysuru/Kodagu: The direct recruitment of Kavadis (elephant caretakers) has begun at Dubare Elephant Camp in Kushalnagar taluk, Kodagu district. Following the order of the Government, Kodagu Division DCF B.N.N. Murthy kick-started the process of recruitment in the wake of lack of adequate number of Kavadis at the camp, in the presence of Forest Department officers. …
Kushalnagar: Dasara elephant Gopi has sustained minor injuries when a wild tusker attacked him when he was chained at Dubare Elephant Camp on Tuesday night. It is leant that Gopi, who has participated six times in Mysuru Dasara and housed at Dubare Elephant Camp, was in musth and hence he was chained. He was being…
Mysore/Mysuru: Vikrama, the 59-year-old elephant, housed in Dubare Elephant Camp, will miss this year’s Dasara once again as he is in musth. Kunthi, the 36-year-old female elephant, housed in Rampura Elephant Camp is replacing Vikrama for this year’s Dasara. She is participating in Dasara for the first time. Last year too Vikrama had missed Dasara…
Roofs leak, mud walls ooze moisture inside hutments; unequal access to toilets at Dubare Elephant Camp Kushalnagar: Dubare Elephant Camp in Kodagu District might be a tourist spot for many that earns handsome revenue both to the Tourism and Forest Departments, but the living conditions of the Mahouts and Kavadis in the camp are miserable….
‘We take the highest risk in tiger capture operations and Dasara but our pay is pittance,’ say upset jumbo caretakers Kushalnagar: Facing years of neglect by the State Government and Forest Department, Mahouts and Kavadis have taken a unanimous decision to boycott this year’s Dasara by not taking their elephants to Mysuru if their immediate…
Bylakuppe: Karnataka Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot yesterday visited the popular tourist spot Dubare elephant camp near Kushalnagar. He inaugurated ‘Vana Mahotsava’ event organised by the Forest Department by planting a sapling. Governor Gehlot who arrived at the other end of the elephant camp by crossing the Cauvery river by a boat, had a view of the…
Travels from Bandipur to reach Wayanad, Nagarahole and crosses Thithimathi range Forest Department continuously monitoring herd movement in his familiar territory Kushalnagar: Tusker Kusha, who was radio-collared and left inside the Bandipur Tiger Reserve from his original place at Dubare Elephant Camp, has returned to its familiar territory. He has been spotted inside the Dubare…
Senior officers want to shift pachyderm to Kabini; Wildlife activists oppose move Kushalnagar: An elephant, whose right hind leg is broken, is recuperating at the Dubare Elephant Camp near Kushalnagar. Though initial reports said that the injury was sustained when the pachyderm was captured in the last week of May, Forest officers said that the…
Radio collar movement tracked by Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun Kushalnagar: Kusha, the wild-captured-tamed-recaptured elephant from Dubare Elephant Camp in Kodagu that was released into the Bandipur Tiger Reserve in June this year after a relentless campaign by animal lovers and following the intervention of former Union Environment Minister and sitting MP Maneka Gandhi is…
Mysore/Mysuru: Among the elephants that have made it into the first list of Dasara elephants is young 34-year-old male elephant Lakshmana from Dubare elephant camp. Though his name is not likely to figure in the final list, forest officers are impressed by his health, nature, softness and also the ability to obey commands. Lakshmana’s mahout…
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