Kushalnagar: Two students, who were part of a Scouts and Guides tour of a school, drowned in Cauvery River at Dubare Elephant Camp in Kodagu district yesterday. The children who lost their lives were 14-year-old Kodengada Shreyas Chengappa of Kanoor village and 15-year-old Madira Lenin Bopanna of Hysodlur village, students of Lions School at Kalathmadu…
Tusker ‘Karthik’ dies of bee attack at Dubare
February 1, 2019Elephant skin not so thick after all… Kushalnagar: Karthik, a nine-year-old male elephant at Dubare Elephant Camp in Kushalnagar, which had mauled two mahouts to death last year, is dead. Karthik, the calf of elephant ‘Vijaya’ of the camp, had killed Mahouts Annu and Mani. On Jan. 13, he had also attacked Mahout Naveen and…
Fire at Maldare, Dubare destroys over 100 acres of forest land
March 5, 2018Siddapura (Kodagu): The raging fire in Dubare Forest Range has spread to Maldare Forest area covering Avaregundha, Basavanahalli, Asthana, Doddahadlu, Gaddige Betta and has reportedly gutted over 100 acres of forest land. Forest Department staff were relentlessly trying to douse the fire raging for the last six days, but the spreading of fire to neighbouring…
Hyderabad tourist dies after assault by rafting staff at Dubare
February 18, 2018Madikeri: In a tragic incident, a 21-year-old tourist from Hyderabad succumbed to injuries at a private hospital in Mysuru on Feb. 16 where he was being treated for the injuries he had sustained when a rafting personnel assaulted him on the head with a wooden oar at Dubare Rafting Camp coming under Nanjarayapatna Gram Panchayat…
Elephant resists shifting to Chhattisgarh: Breaks chains, jumps off truck at Dubare
January 24, 2018Mysuru: The grand plan of the Forest Department officials to shift six tamed elephants from Dubare and Mathigodu elephant camps in Kodagu to capture wild elephants at Chhattisgarh met with stiff opposition from one of the elephants. Probably, realising that he is being transported to an unfamiliar location, a male elephant jumped off the transport…
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