Seeing plight of those who have moved out of forest, families shy away to relocate Hanagodu: While the Forest Department is spending crores of rupees every year to maintain the flora and fauna in Reserve Forests and Tiger Reserves in order to rake in the moolah through boosting safari, creating protected areas and attracting tourism,…
Hunsur: A Forest Watcher, who was driving back wild elephants back to forest, fell and died at Veeranahosahalli Wildlife Zone in Nagarahole Tiger Reserve yesterday morning. The deceased is Hanumantaiah (56), a resident of Nanjaiah Colony in the taluk. Yesterday at about 3.30 am, a herd of wild elephants raided the agricultural field of one…
Safari goers capture fierce fight on camera at Nagarahole Hunsur: A video of two roaring tigers fighting each other fiercely over territory at Nagarahole Tiger Reserve has gone viral on social media, giving safari goers the spectacle of the mighty beasts clashing among themselves. The fight between the two tigers took place yesterday near Marappana…
2021 census begins; marked increase in Old Mysuru region ‘Tiger Talk’ held in Mysuru Zoo to mark World Tiger Day Mysore/Mysuru: If Madhya Pradesh has bagged the number one position in the now released extended report of the 2018 tiger headcount (‘Status of Tigers, Co-predators and Prey in India’) with 526 felines, Karnataka stands second…
Hunsur: A carcass of a tiger, suspected to have died following a fight with another tiger, has been found in Nagarahole Tiger Reserve. The dead tiger is aged between 7 and 8 years and the carcass was found at Hebbal border of Yelele Chowdamma Beat at Mathigod Range of Nagarahole Tiger Reserve and it is…
Forest Department intensifies vigil, seeks public help Hunsur: From the day the State went under lockdown two months ago giving smoke-and-sound-free environs to wild animals, which are moving around freely inside the National Parks and Tiger Reserves is indicating that nature is thriving during the Coronavirus pandemic with lack of human movement. But this has…
Hunsur: A poacher, who had entered Anechowkur Forest Range in Nagarahole Tiger Reserve of Hunsur Wildlife Division to hunt wild animals has been arrested by the Forest Department officials. The arrested is 52-year-old Narayana Nayak of Chouthi village in Periyapatna taluk. He, along with three others, had entered into the forest illegally on Sunday night…
By M.T. Yogesh Kumar Mysore/Mysuru: At a time when the District Administration is battling to bring down rising COVID caseload, the measures taken by local Gram Panchayat (GP) and Forest Department has ensured that tribal hamlets in Nagarahole Tiger Reserve are free of the virus thus far. Over 2,000 tribals living in 11 tribal hamlets…
Ponnampet: Forest Department officials, who were hoping to tranquillise and capture or kill the male tiger that had killed three persons and badly injured another in South Kodagu on the fringes of Nagarahole Tiger Reserve, have not been able to do so till now as the tiger has remained elusive and quick in its move…
Ponnampet: The Forest Department is following the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) issued by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) in tracking and capturing the tiger on the prowl in South Kodagu. Speaking to Star of Mysore this morning, Nagarahole Tiger Reserve Director D. Mahesh Kumar said that the guidelines are being followed and the first…
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