Bengaluru: Be it elephant trenches, solar-powered fences, Railway track barricades, chilli-tobacco rope fences, barbed wires, honeybee fences, wild elephants have always outsmarted all methods tried by the Forest Department to keep them inside reserve forests, national parks and wildlife sanctuaries. Elephants have continued to stray into human habitats and over the years, human-elephant conflict has…
By Ashvini Ranjan The recent news about one thousand acres of virgin forest in Sandur, Ballari District, being opened up for mining Iron and Manganese Ore by Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd. (KIOCL) is shocking to say the least. In all, 99,330 trees are proposed to be felled much against the advice by the Forest…
By M.T. Yogesh Kumar S.C. Jyothi, a Range Forest Officer (RFO) probationer with the Forest Department, has said that she joined the Department to save wildlife for future generations. Jyothi Shivakote, a resident of Vidyaranyapuram in Bengaluru, is currently undergoing training in Wildlife Division and was recently engaged in fire-fighting operations at Kundkere, Gopalaswamy Hills…
By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist In the beginning was the forest. Humans domesticated the forest to create culture, a space where they could feel secure. However, as societies around the world are becoming unsafe for immigrants, travellers, minorities, women and queer people, it is time to ask ourselves what is culture?…
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