‘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…
Chikkamagalur: Forest Department officials have arrested two priests for allegedly possessing tiger claw pendants and have seized three pendants from them. The arrested priests are Krishnananda Holla and Nagendra Jois, priests of Markandeshwara Temple in Khandya village. The Forest Department had received a complaint through email alleging that the priests were in possession of tiger…
Darshan Thoogudeepa, Nikhil Kumaraswamy, Jaggesh hand over lockets for forensic tests Bengaluru: Following the arrest of Varthur Santhosh, a contestant from the Bigg Boss reality show, for wearing a tiger’s claw locket, various organisations are calling on the Government to take action against celebrities who also possess such animal claw accessories. The possession or display…
It had killed a 9-year-old boy at Kallahatti village in H.D. Kote on Sept. 4 H.D. Kote: A tiger, which had killed a nine-year-old boy at Kallahatti village in H.D. Kote taluk on Sept. 4 and was elusive since then, has been finally captured by the Forest Department yesterday. The tiger is aged between seven…
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