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ahmedabad, India - A preliminary report into the tragic crash of Air India flight AI171 has revealed that all crew members were deemed fit to operate the flight after being breathalysed upon arrival at Ahmedabad airport. The inquiry is now intensely focused on retrieved engine components, with investigators identifying "components of interest for further examinations." The aircraft,en route to Ahmedabad,began losing altitude before crossing the airport perimeter wall. While no significant b ...Read More >
Erode: A lone elephant strayed into a farm adjacent to the Thalavadi forest range in Erode district in the early hours of Saturday and destroyed over 300 fruit trees.The incident took place on a farm owned by K Rasukutty, 54, of Jorekadu hamlet near Thalavadi. "The elephant breached the wire fencing to enter the property and destroyed over 300 banana trees, three jackfruit trees, a parked tractor and some water pipes," Rasukutty said. Rasukutty notified forest officials who arrived at the scene ...Read More >
Bhopal: Nabha, the eight-year-old Namibian cheetah in the Kuno national park (KNP) in Madhya Pradesh on Saturday succumbed to injuries that she had sustained while hunting. She had been under treatment for a week for her injuries, KNP field director Uttam Kumar Sharma told this newspaper. "Nabha got badly injured a week back probably during a hunting attempt inside her soft release boma (large enclosure). She had fractures in both ulna (bone in the foreleg) and fibula (smaller of the two outer ...Read More >
Guwahati: The Assam government on Saturday launched a massive eviction drive to evict 1080 families allegedly encroaching upon about 140 hectares of forest land in the Paikan Reserve Forest in Western Assam's Goalpara district. Amid the protest of those being evicted, the state administration said that drive was primarily to curb human-elephant conflict and restore ecological balance in the area. In order to maintain law and order during the eviction drive, joint teams of the Forest Department ...Read More >
Madikeri: The Central Horticultural Experimental Station at Chettalli near Madikeri faces a continuous threat from wild elephants as they have damaged orchards.The centre maintains distinct blocks of orchards, including naseberry, guava, and butter fruit trees aged between 15 to 20 years. Wild elephants regularly invade these orchards during harvest seasons, destroying crops and damaging trees extensively. Wild elephants from the adjacent Meenakoli Reserve Forest have damaged the guava block.A m ...Read More >
Mandsaur (Madhya Pradesh): The adult male Caracal was spotted in the camera surveillance system of Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary, within the Bhanpura-Garot assembly constituency area, along the Chambal River, on Thursday night. This records as the first confirmed sighting of the species in a protected area of the state in several years. Caracals, known locally by the same name, are extremely shy, nocturnal carnivores, renowned for their exceptional agility and speed. Weighing between 7-18 k ...Read More >
Guwahati: Assam's Goalpara District officials confirmed on Friday that nearly 95% of alleged encroachers have vacated over 1,000 bighas of forest land in Paikan Reserve Forest ahead of a scheduled eviction drive. Goalpara Deputy Commissioner Khanindra Choudhury reported that the district administration stands ready to support the forest department's operation. Ready for a challenge? Click here to take our quiz and show off your knowledge! "Around 90-95% of the settlers have already moved out, ...Read More >
BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha government has requested the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) to amend the eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) notification of Balukhand wildlife sanctuary in Puri to facilitate construction of Shree Swaminarayan temple along the Puri-Konark Marine Drive. The proposal has been moved by no less than Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, who has written a letter to Union minister Bhupender Yadav urging him to consider reducing the ESZ boundary from existing 50 ...Read More >
MUMBAI: HUL on Thursday named Priya Nair, who heads parent Unilever's beauty & wellbeing business, as MD & CEO. Nair, who joined HUL 30 years ago, will be the first woman to lead the consumer goods giant. The London-based Nair, 53, will take over the corner office in Mumbai on Aug 1, succeeding Rohit Jawa who will step down as MD & CEO on July 31. Jawa, who led HUL for a little over two years, was appointed for a five-year term ending June 26, 2028. His predecessor Sanjiv Mehta had held the CEO' ...Read More >
Itanagar: A total of 89 different bird species were recorded during a two-day bird survey conducted by the Arunachal Pradesh Birding Club at Nongsaya Lake, located at Jona in Namsai district.The survey was conducted earlier this year in association with the public works department, Namsai division, conservationist Koj Mama said.Nongsaya Lake, situated around 9km from Namsai district headquarters, offers an opportunity for biodiversity protection. Its surrounding environment has the potential for ...Read More >
Guwahati: Tension ran high in Chapar recenue circle of Dhubri District on Tuesday when alleged encroachers tried to attack police personnel during an eviction drive.The mob damaged excavators by pelting stones at them and hitting them with bamboo sticks, prompting security forces to resort to a baton charge to disperse them.Chapar circle officer Shashee Bhusan Raj Konwar said the people suddenly charged at the eviction team with bamboo sticks and pelted stones at them during the drive at Chiraku ...Read More >
Nizamabad: Frequent leopard sightings in rural areas and along highways in North Telangana, including Hyderabad-Nagpur National Highway 44 and Nizamabad-Basar routes, have raised alarm among residents over the past few months. While summer typically sees wild animals venturing into human settlements in search of water, the current rainy season has intensified leopard movements due to their mating season, according to forest officials. The closure of wildlife wings in major parks during July and ...Read More >
Udhagamandalam: Residents of Ajjoor village in Ooty taluk have sought the intervention the Nilgiris collector to stop an eviction exercise initiated by the forest department. In their petition to collector Lakshmi Bhavya Tanneeru, the villagers have stated that the Badaga village was established 300 years ago, and currently, at least 300 agrarian families reside there. At least 100 members, including women, of the village gathered in front of the Nilgiris collectorate on Monday to hand over the ...Read More >
Guwahati, July 4: A letter from the Union Forest Ministry seeking action against the then Assam Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) and Head of Forest Force (HoFF) has blown the lid off the illegalities carried out in Geleky Reserve Forest and Hailakandi's Innerline Reserve Forest where "large scale" constructions were being carried out for housing police battalions in gross violations of law. In an affidavit filed before the NGT, the then PCCF and HoFF had stated that there was "no i ...Read More >
The construction of the camps has been under a cloud since early 2024 and faced scrutiny from the environment ministry as well as the National Green Tribunal's principal bench and eastern zone bench (Kolkata). The Union environment ministry's regional office in Shillong has directed the Assam forest department to take legal action against Special Secretary (Forest) M K Yadava for authorising two commando battalion camps on forest land in "gross violation" of the law, official documents show. T ...Read More >
Guwahati: The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has directed Assam's Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) to initiate legal proceedings against Special Chief Secretary MK Yadava for unauthorized diversion of 11.5 hectares of forest land in the Damcherra Innerline Reserve Forest in Hailakandi district of Barak Valley. Yadava, who was then serving as PCCF and Head of Forest Force (HoFF), had approved the use of the forest land by the Assam Police Housing Corpor ...Read More >
Bengaluru: Forest minister Eshwar Khandre's decision to initiate a departmental inquiry into the recent unnatural death of a leopard in the MM Hills wildlife sanctuary has triggered hopes among conservationists and wildlife enthusiasts about uncovering the truth behind such incidents.In the most recent case, the carcass of the big cat was found mutilated last month.Recollecting similar incidents in the past few years, the activists suspect an organised nexus of poachers could be behind such wild ...Read More >
Bengaluru, July 2: Close on the heels of five tigers, including a mother and her four cubs, were poisoned in the Malai Mahadeshwara Hills wildlife reserve, the bodies of about 20 bonnet monkeys have been found dumped in the buffer zone of neighbouring Bandipur Tiger Reserve. While 18 of the 20 monkeys were found dead, two of them were still breathing and the forest officials have shifted them to Gundlupet and are treated at the local veterinary hospital. The forest officials suspect that the m ...Read More >
Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], July 2 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha participated in a special aarti at the Jammu Tawi riverfront. Sinha also visited the Amarnath Yatri Niwas base camp on Tuesday evening. After inspecting the Yatri Niwas base camp, Sinha stated that the security arrangements for the Yatra are more robust than ever before. 'I have witnessed the last four Yatras. The arrangements are better than ever, as far as the security and convenience of pilgr ...Read More >
Bengaluru: Following the poisoning of five tigers at MM Hills Wildlife Sanctuary, forest minister Eshwar Khandre on Tuesday ordered an audit of tiger mortality in various tiger reserves (national parks) and wildlife sanctuaries of Karnataka. Delving into the activities of the wildlife wing, shortly after sending errant forest officials of MM Hills sanctuary on compulsory leave, the minister sought within 10 days a complete review of tiger deaths over the past five and a half years.As per the All ...Read More >
Panaji: The high court of Bombay at Goa on Tuesday called for a response from central and state authorities in a petition challenging permissions, approvals, and work orders issued for the construction of a tourist resort on the Surla plateau in the Mhadei wildlife sanctuary, which is to be notified as a tiger reserve. In July 2023, the court directed state to notify the sanctuary and adjacent sanctuaries as a tiger reserve following recommendations from the national tiger conservation authority ...Read More >
Bhopal: A search by the Meghalaya police in a flat of father-in-law of Shalom James, an Indore-based property dealer arrested on charges of destroying evidence in the killing of Raja Raghuvamsi allegedly by his wife Sonam during their honeymoon in Shillong last month, in Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh, has yielded a laptop, a pen drive, jewelry and incriminating documents, believed to be belonging to the couple, sources said on Monday. The search was conducted in the flat of Manoj Gupta, father-in-la ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: Nature lovers have a fresh reason to visit Nandankanan Zoological Park in Odisha's Bhubaneswar, as the famed wildlife sanctuary welcomed seven baby yellow anacondas into its reptilian fold on Sunday -- a rare and exciting addition that underscores the zoo's growing reputation as a haven for exotic species. The tiny hatchlings were born to a breeding pair of yellow anacondas brought to Nandankanan from the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust in Chennai in October 2019. With these new arriva ...Read More >
Srinagar: Tucked in the Zabarwan hills just outside Srinagar, Dachigam National Park has emerged as India's top-performing protected area in the latest national conservation rankings. The park has earned praise for its meticulous ecological management and its critical role in preserving the Kashmir stag, or Hangul. Dachigam received the highest score of 92.97 per cent out of 438 national parks and wildlife sanctuaries evaluated nationwide in the recently published Management Effectiveness Evalu ...Read More >
Srinagar, Jun 28 (PTI) Dachigam National Park in Jammu and Kashmir has secured the highest management effectiveness evaluation (MEE) score in the country in the latest cycle conducted by the Wildlife Institute of India, a wildlife department spokesperson said on Saturday. "Dachigam topped the list of 438 national parks and wildlife sanctuaries assessed across the country, scoring a remarkable 92.97 percent, a testimony to the park's outstanding conservation standards, adaptive management, and e ...Read More >
Kolhapur: While the NCP (SP) has declared support to the July 5 protest march against the "imposition of Hindi," the party's chief Sharad Pawar on Friday said celebrities such as cricketer Sachin Tendulkar should not be insisted upon to express their views on making Hindi a must in the Maharashtra school curriculum. "Ask Sachin about cricket; don't force him to take a stand on Hindi imposition," he said.Pawar was responding to Raj Thackeray's statement on Thursday that he wanted to see who -- es ...Read More >
BENGALURU: Forest officials on Friday took into custody four persons for the death by poisoning of a tigress and her four cubs at the Gajanur beat of Hoogyam range in Male Mahadeshwara (MM) Hills wildlife sanctuary in Chamarajanagar district on Friday. The carcasses of tigress and her four cubs were discovered by patrolling personnel on Thursday. Among the arrested was Shivanna, a resident of Kallbedoddi, who used to let his cow to graze in the forest areas, and was upset after it was killed in ...Read More >
Tigers in India's Ranthambore National Park. Sustained conservation efforts have led to a steady rebound of tiger numbers but the species faces multiple threats India has launched an investigation after an endangered tigress and her four cubs were found dead in a protected forest in the southern state of Karnataka, an official said Friday. State forest minister Eshwar Khandre said the "unnatural" deaths were "extremely tragic and distressing" and that an investigation team had been formed. Lo ...Read More >
Bengaluru: In an incident of concern, the unnatural death of a tigress and her three cubs, probably due to poisoning, came to light in the Male Mahadeshwara Hills Wildlife Sanctuary in Karnataka's Chamarajanagar district on Thursday. Addressing media persons in Bengaluru, Forests, Ecology, and Environment Minister Eshwar Khandre announced that an investigation has been ordered into the incident and officials have been directed to submit a detailed report within three days. The probe will be co ...Read More >
KARUR: A two-year-old spotted deer which wandered off from a reserved forest near Vadacheri into Veeranampatti village was chased by stray dogs and took refuge inside a house on Saturday morning. According to sources, the reserved forest is situated close to the village and spotted deer frequently roam near the village border in search of food and water. On Saturday, the deer lost its way while grazing, wandered into Veeranampatti, and was chased by stray dogs. The panicked animal ran into a n ...Read More >
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