Hanur: The Forest Department personnel have arrested two persons on charges of smuggling wild Partridge birds from forest on Sunday. The arrested are Jnanaprakash and Jack Benatic of Megaladoddi village. The accused had caught 10 wild Partridge birds which had come out from Kothanur Banur Beat in Kothanur Section. They had killed four birds and…
400 kg wild meat, arms, snares seized Hanur: In a major haul, the Karnataka Forest Department has managed to confiscate a huge haul of over 400 kg of wild meat besides arms and snares used for hunting on the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu Border. However, the poachers managed to escape. Yesterday afternoon, the Forest Department staff from…
Former Principal Chief Conservator of Forests B.K. Singh pays tribute to unsung heroes in his book Mysuru: He terrorised the jungles of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka for years before he was shot and killed by the Tamil Nadu Special Task Force in October 2004. Elephant poacher and forest brigand Veerappan, with his characteristic bushy whiskers,…
A group photo of the winners of Wildlife Photography contest organised by the Forest Department in city recently. Front row – from left: K.A. Machaiah, S.R. Madhusudhan, V. Sheshadri and Prasad are seen with Forest Minister R. Shankar, CCF Venkateshan, APCCF Jagathram, PCCF C. Jayaram, Zoo Authority of Karnataka Member-Secretary B.P. Ravi, DCFs Sidramappa Chalkapure…
Shashank, son of senior journalist Mahadev, who participated in the wildlife photography competition organised by the Forest Department as part of World Wildlife Week, is seen receiving the Certificate of Merit from Forest Minister R. Shankar at a function organised in city recently as Zoo Authority of Karnataka Member-Secretary B.P. Ravi and others look on.
Hunsur: A week-long efforts by Forest Department staff to trap an elusive tiger near K.G. Habbanakuppe is yet to yield the result as the ‘intelligent’ tiger seems to be not lured by the goat kept as a bait in the cage but continue to roam in the said village looking for another prey. The tiger…
Mysuru: Marking World Environment Day-2018, the Forest Department along with the District Administration launched ‘Vanothsava’ yesterday, aimed at planting saplings all along the Ring Road from Hinkal junction till Nanjangud Road junction. It is proposed to plant about 8,000 saplings along the Ring Road. ‘Vanothsava’ was launched by MP Pratap Simha, DC Abhiram G. Sankar…
Mysuru: The Karnataka Forest Department has banned trekking in forests in the State till the end of summer. This decision was taken at a meeting of High-Level State Forest officials yesterday in Bengaluru in the wake of forest fire at Kurangini Hills in Theni district of Tamil Nadu where 10 trekkers perished. In a circular…
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