Belagavi: Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre convened a meeting with Ministers K.J. George, N.S. Boseraju, MLAs A.S. Ponnanna and Dr. Manthar Gowda and other MLAs from Hassan and Chikkamagaluru along with officials from the Karnataka Forest Department (KFD) to address the escalating instances of human-elephant conflicts in the State. The meeting was held at Suvarna Soudha…
Giant tusker that attacked Arjuna from nowhere was unidentified, says forest official Hassan: Arjuna, the 64-year-old elephant that carried the 750-kg Golden Howdah eight times during Mysuru Dasara, passed away yesterday following a confrontation with a wild elephant in Yeslur range forest, Sakleshpur taluk in Hassan district. The incident occurred during an operation to capture…
Alleging cover-up after negligence, wildlife activists call for detailed investigation Hassan: Conflicting accounts have emerged from the incident where Arjuna succumbed to the injuries inflicted by a wild tusker. According to the Forest Department’s press release, the team involved in the wild elephant capture at Yeslur was unable to administer the tranquilliser dart to the…
‘Villagers, Forest staff did not believe when we said we saw a tiger’ By M.T. Yogesh Kumar Mysore/Mysuru: “I had seen a tiger sitting by the roadside 15 days ago, but the Forest staff and villagers did not believe me. I saved my husband by banging the plate and scaring the tiger away. I was…
Forest personnel identify one tiger that had killed cowherd woman; Night combing launched Mysore/Mysuru: Camera traps installed at vantage points as part of the Forest Department’s operation to capture the tiger, which had killed a woman at Hediyala Range in Bandipur Tiger Reserve, have captured the images of two tigers at different spots. The Forest…
Mysore/Mysuru: A three-year-old leopardess has been trapped in a cage placed by the Forest Department in an agricultural field at Mosambayanahalli village, Varuna hobli in the taluk yesterday morning. Following complaints about a leopard being spotted at Mosambayanahalli village and surrounding places by the villagers, the Forest Department staff had placed a cage in the…
“It was inevitable as poachers attacked Forest staff with lethal weapons” Bandipur: A poacher was killed when the Forest Department staff fired at them in Bandipur Tiger Reserve Forest yesterday early morning. The deceased has been identified as Manu (26), a resident of Bheemanabeedu in Gundlupet taluk of Chamarajanagar district. Following information that a gang…
Mysore/Mysuru: Following the complaints of frequent leopard movement at Ramabainagar in the city, Forest Department personnel, along with Leopard Task Force (LTF), conducted a combing operation in the locality on Thursday night (Nov. 2). The locals are learnt to have sighted the feline during evening hours. They immediately alerted Forest officials in this regard. Acting…
Forest officials to discuss deadline implementation process Mysore/Mysuru: Following the two-month deadline given by Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre to those possessing wildlife artefacts to handover the same to the Government, a meeting of Forest Department officials chaired by the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF-Wildlife) to discuss about the process of implementing the two-month deadline…
Bengaluru: The Government is deliberating on providing a window to the public as a one-time measure to declare and return wildlife artefacts in their possession, said Forest, Ecology and Environment Minister Eshwar Khandre. The Minister was briefing media persons at Vikasa Soudha yesterday afternoon after the recent arrest of Varthur Santhosh, a Bigg Boss Kannada…
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