Forest Department restores jeep the officer drove Chamarajanagar: In a heartfelt tribute to martyred Indian Forest Service (IFS) Officer P. Srinivas, who was killed by forest brigand Veerappan, the Forest Department has restored his jeep to a running condition and has turned it into a souvenir. This was the same jeep that Srinivas rode during…
Hunsur: Acting on a tip off, the Forest Department personnel have seized a goods mini lorry near Nellurpala in Hunsur taluk which was illegally transporting logs of rose wood (beete tree) in the wee hours of Thursday. Details: Following an information that seven logs of rose wood was being illegally transported from Gaddehalla in Suntikoppa…
Summons tamed elephants Ganesh, Balarama to the spot Hunsur: The Forest Department staff have begun the combing operation to trace and trap an elusive tiger which is causing menace in the region. Though the combing operation had begun to trap the tiger, the tiger was untraceable on Saturday and the Forest staff have stayed put…
Two more cows killed on Thursday, Friday Gonikoppa: Despite Forest Department staff placing cages in two places and also installing camera traps to trace the movement of the tiger, which is creating menace and to trap it, the elusive tiger is continuing its killing spree by killing two cows at Tochamakeri village on Thursday and…
Mysore/Mysuru: A delegation of over 40 green activists visited the Vijayanagar First Stage this morning to assess the eco damage due to cutting of 20 fully grown shade trees. They later visited the Forest Department office at Ashokapuram to meet Deputy Conservator of Forests (DCF) Kamala Karikalan. As the DCF is indisposed, a memorandum was…
Activists tear down letters favouring felling of 537 trees Mysore/Mysuru: The public hearing conducted by the Forest Department this morning here on felling of roadside trees for NHAI’s (National Highways Authority of India)Highway expansion plans, saw environmental activists tearing up consent letters that were in support of tree-felling. The Forest Department had invited objections, if…
Mysore/Mysuru: The Forest Department staff, who were on their regular beat, have found a carcass of a female bear near Chamahalli of Veeranahosahalli Range in Nagarahole Reserve Forest yesterday. The dead bear was aged about five years and the staff immediately informed their higher officials, who rushed to the spot along with Veterinarian Dr. Mujeeb…
Mysore/Mysuru: A 40-year-old wild elephant which strayed into a resort near Masinagudi of Nilgiris District in Tamil Nadu, was killed by an act of human cruelty as a burning tyre and clothes were hurled at it by the staff of a private resort at Mavanallah. Tamil Nadu Forest Department officials said the badly injured elephant,…
Mysore/Mysuru: The Forest Department personnel have arrested four persons while they were trying to sell a Sand Boa snake and have seized one bike and one scooter besides rescuing the snake. The arrested are Manjunath of Marigowdanahundi, Devalapura in the taluk, Venugopal of Hinkal in Mysuru, Shrungar and Siddaraju of Hanur in Chamarajanagar district. The…
Chamarajanagar: The Forest Department staff on Saturday have rescued two male tiger cubs from the spot, where a carcass of a tigress was found on Friday near the village bordering Madhumalai Tiger Reserve Forest in Tamil Nadu adjoining Bandipur Tiger Reserve. The Madhumalai Forest staff, who went to the spot on Saturday morning to conduct…
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