Tackling monkey menace in Wayanad
The Forest Department has resumed mass translocation of the simian population from various parts of Wayanad to remote forests in the wake of complaints of monkey menace. The project is being implemented
Animal Menace
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Wildlife dept fails to check bear attacks
Shariq Majeed Tribune News Service Danna-Loran (Poonch), June 9 Protecting wild bear is fine but should that be at the cost of human lives? In this area, which lies on the border of Poonch district and Kashmir province, people
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Two jungle cats trapped
NEDUMABASSERY: A jungle cat, which had been preying on hens and ducks, was caught in a trap set up by Raju Palatty on his house premises at Akaparambu near here on Saturday night. Raju, an officer with the Federal Bank, Mookkannor branch, had been losing hens and ducks during the night. The residents in the area suspected that some wild animal was on the prowl in the area.
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ASI trampled by wild tusker
An assistant sub-inspector attached to Chamarajanagar Rural Police Station, B Basavegowda (52) has been trampled to death by a wild tusker near Yettegowdanadoddi forest range, on Karnataka-Tamil Nadu Border on Monday.
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Menace of rhesus monkeys at Jorhat
JORHAT, May 12: The man-animal conflict in Jorhat has received a new dimension with hordes of rhesus monkeys menacing villages in North-West Jorhat. The area which comprises cultivable farms of fruits, vegetables and paddy are facing depredations on a daily basis. A farmer of Madhya Goru Mora village, Robin Bora, said that it is impossible to cultivate a single vegetable on 10 bighas of land.
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The Naga Chilli: Spicing up DRDO research
Ajai Shukla / Tezpur (assam) May 04, 2009, 0:27 IST
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Jhum responsible for elephant menace
Shillong: Meghalaya Forest Department on Sunday blamed the depletion of forest cover for the increasing man-elephant conflict in the state and in Garo and Khasi hill regions of the bordering Assam. At least 15 people have been killed by marauding elephants in the State alone in the last five years.
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Forget naxalites, heres a real jumbo problem
Sujay Mehdudia The Maoists may have hogged the headlines in these elections, but in the forests of Jharkhand bordering West Bengal and Orissa, it
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Six persons injured due to leopard attack
TINSUKIA, April 20: Six persons were injured due to leopard attack at no.7 labour line of Jutlibari TE under Naoholia PS yesterday afternoon. The leopard strayed into the human habitation from nearby Borajan Wild Life Sanctuary. As the people gathering increased after the news spread into the garden about the leopard presence, the leopard suddenly attacked and injured six persons.
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'Killer' pachyderm no longer violent
The tusker is suspected to have killed 7 elephants in the Periyar Tiger Reserve P. Venugopal THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Wildlife officials tracking a tusker in musth, suspected to be the killer of seven wild elephants in Periyar Tiger Reserve (PTR) in the recent weeks, report that the animal is no longer violent.
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Fly menace disrupts normal life in villages
The normal life of people in Avani, Menajenahalli and surrounding villages in the taluk has turned into complete hell due to the invasion of flies, alleged the villagers on Saturday. Narayan Shetty started a big poultry farm in Yalagodanahalli and because of the lack of cleanliness the flies had increased.