Over 6000 acres of pristine forest cover has been reduced to ashes in four ranges of the hallowed Nagarhole Tiger Reserve. But there hardly seems to be a sense of remorse amongst senior wildlife officials in Karnataka. In fact, the Field Director " Project Tiger (Mr Hosmath) and Mr Vijay Ranjan Singh, Conservator of Forests (Nagarhole division) were gung-ho that they had convinced Karnataka forest Minister CP Yogeswar that fires...
05:48 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Kochi: Kerala HIgh court on Monday directed the head of the Special Team of forest department, appointed to provide assistance to the devotees at Uppupara in Pulmedu, to give a detailed report by Feb 11 on the Jan 14 stampede that claimed the lives of 102 pilgrims. A division bench comprising justice Thothathil B Radhakrishnan and justice P S Gopinath directed the forest official to produce documents showing the total...
05:52 PM, Jan 24, 2011
Surat: Gujarat Forest department has issued shoot at sight orders in Surat district after a pack of leopards went on a killing spree. Four people were killed by the cats over the past 10 days. Forest department personnel had already shot and injured one leopard that was suspected of killing a teenage girl on Friday, but it escaped. A massive search operation has been launched in the area so far....
09:38 AM, Nov 28, 2010
Several incidents of leopards being attacked by humans are being reported. ...
05:15 PM, Jun 25, 2009
Niyamat has been campaigning for people's rights under the NREGS. ...
09:41 AM, Feb 19, 2009
Villagers are demanding that the tiger be captured and killed. ...
03:00 PM, Feb 11, 2009
It took the Forest Department officials more than three hours to tranquilise the animal. ...
01:36 AM, Jan 07, 2009
Delhi's existing green lung, the Ridge, is withering away. ...
02:42 PM, Aug 07, 2008
London: England head to the Oval for the final Test of the summer against India on Thursday as the world's top side courtesy of a rankings system which is now widely accepted but not generally understood. The International Cricket Council (ICC) rankings are the brainchild of former Wisden almanac editor Matthew Engel. Test cricket crucially depends on context, Engel wrote in the 1995 edition. It needs a five-Test series (six...
08:50 PM, Feb 21, 2008
Forest department officials reunite lost calf with its herd; brokenhearted after she leaves them. ...
12:26 AM, Jun 18, 2007
Indian vultures are vanishing at a rapid pace. Their population is down by 90 pc in the last 10 years. ...
01:34 PM, May 29, 2007
One of the biggest reasons given by the Wildlife Institute of India for the drastic decline in the number of tigers is poaching. ...
01:49 PM, May 24, 2007
A leopard which was trapped after it strayed into a residential area in Nasik has died, officials said on Thursday. ...
04:59 PM, Jan 18, 2007
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