Hunsur: A tusker and a decomposed carcass of a tiger have been found in Nagarahole Reserve Forest here yesterday. While the tusker, aged about 40 years, was found on the Paisari Beat of Kallahalli Range, the highly-decomposed carcass of the tiger, aged about six years, was found in BMC Beat of Balakovu Range, both coming…
Black is Beautiful…
December 29, 2017BLACK BEAUTY: Here is a series of photographs of a black leopard captured by tourists who went for a safari at Nagarahole (Kabini Backwaters) yesterday. The leopard was first spotted perching on a tree at around 4.30 pm. It later climbed down and landed on the safari route giving a perfect photo opportunity for shutterbugs….
Rains cause extensive damage in Hanagodu, around Nagarahole
October 7, 2017Hanagodu: Widespread rains around the villages of Nagarahole National Park in Mysuru and Kodagu districts since the last couple of days have brought untold misery for the people. Lakes and ponds have breached and the existing bad roads have turned worse. Hanagodu and Panchavalli near Hunsur were the epicentres of the rain and widespread destruction…
Leopard trapped, released into Nagarahole forest
September 19, 2017Mysuru: A four-year-old leopard, which had walked into the cage placed by the Forest Department at the farm of one Prashanth at Mydanahalli near Koorgalli Industrial Area here on Monday, has been released into Nagarahole Forest in the evening. The Forest Department had placed the cage in the farm with a dog as a bait…
Rehearsing for the D-day…
June 14, 2017When hundreds of yoga enthusiasts are rehearsing for the International Yoga Day on June 21, this tiger at Dhamankatte in Nagarahole seems to be showing SOM photographer M.N. Lakshminarayana Yadav that even he is practicing yoga for better health.
Elephant census begins in Bandipur and Nagarahole forests
May 17, 2017To conclude on May 19 Mysuru: The Forest Department began the elephant census at Bandipur and Nagarahole Reserve Forests this morning. In Bandipur, around 100 Forest Department personnel along with 130 volunteers from across the State who have enrolled themselves as enumerators, began the census at about 6.30 am, which will go on till 3.30…
2 arrested for poaching tiger
March 5, 2017Two persons have been arrested for poaching a tiger in Metikuppe range of Nagarahole National Park yesterday. Based on a tip-off, Forest officials arrested Puttaiah and Dinesh and recovered skin, nails and canines of tiger from them. The incident occurred on the night of Mar. 3 and the arrest was made by the forest mobile…
5 spotted deer, 7 wild goats poisoned in Nagarahole fringes
March 3, 2017Just days after Karnataka woke up to the raging fire at Bandipur National Park and Tiger Reserve where hundreds of acres of vegetation was reduced to ashes, here comes another sad news from Nagarahole National Park. Five spotted deer and seven wild goats were found dead on the fringes of Metikuppe range of Nagarahole National…
Rare black leopard cub dies after fight with tiger
February 8, 2017A rare black leopard cub was found dead at near Mathigodu K.M. Kolli wildlife zone in Anechoukuru forest range of Nagarahole forest yesterday It is suspected that the female black leopard cub which is six months old might have died after being attacked by a tiger as pug marks were found around the carcass…
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