Forest Department
- Andhra Pradesh
Watch: Tribal group helps AP forest department to find water in trees
The Andhra Pradesh forest department, with the help of the Konda Reddi tribe, discovered water stored in trees in the Papikonda National Park of the Alluri Sitharama Raju district. On Saturday, March 30,…
- Telangana
Telangana forest department denies tiger sighting in Nalgonda district
Hyderabad: Telangana forest department has denied reports that a tiger was sighted in Narketpally in Nalgonda district. The department on Monday clarified that there are no chances of a tiger being sighted…
- Telangana
Telangana: Forest dept working to trap leopard attacking cattle
Hyderabad: The Telangana forest department began work to trap a leopard moving in the districts of Wanaparthy and Narayanpet that is moving around villages and attacking cattle. The local villagers met the…
- Telangana
Telangana: Sand mafia attacks forest officials, minister assures action
Hyderabad: A group of five forest department personnel travelling in a car was allegedly hit by a sand-laden tractor-trolley driven by suspected members of the sand mafia in the early hours of…
- Chennai
TN: 7 people fined Rs 50,000 each for hunting spotted deer in Hosur
Hosur: Seven people were fined Rs 50,000 each for allegedly hunting spotted deer and selling the meat, Denkanikottai Forest Department said. The accused were identified as Chellappan (65), Ramraj (31), Rajiv (31),…
- Andhra Pradesh
Himalayan black bear mauls Zoo keeper to death in AP
Visakhapatnam: A 23-year-old animal keeper was mauled to death by a Himalayan black bear in the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park (Vizag Zoo) on Monday. B Nagesh Babu was attacked by Jihwan, the…
- India
HP: 10 people, including 5 forest dept employees, trapped in Mandi dam
Shimla: Ten people, including five employees of the forest department, were trapped at the Kol Dam Hydel Project in Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi district on Sunday, officials said. “The situation is not life…
- India
Tiger cubs’ death in Bengal Safari Park: Forest department holds mother responsible
Kolkata: The West Bengal Zoo Authority, along with the state forest department, has come up with a face-saving report on the death of two tiger cubs at Bengal Safari Park at Siliguri…
- India
Tiger cubs found dead in TN reserve; probe ordered
Mudumalai: Two tiger cubs were found dead at the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve and a probe has been ordered to ascertain the reason for their death, Forest Department officials said on Thursday. The…
- India
Bengal to set up super-specialty hospital for tigers in Sunderbans
Kolkata: In a first of its kind, the forest department of West Bengal in association with the state zoo authority has decided to set up a supers-specialty hospital in the Sunderbans with…
- Telangana
Telangana: Wild bear spotted in Karimnagar residential area
Hyderabad: A wild sloth bear that panicked residents after it entered a locality in Karimnagar was trapped by forest officials on Saturday. Operations for trapping the bears were set in place after…
- Telangana
Telangana: ‘Scientific Beekeeping’ seminar held in Mulugu
Hyderabad: The Integrated Development Beekeeping Center (IBDC) organized a state-level seminar on ‘Scientific Beekeeping’ on Monday. The seminar aimed to promote the adoption of scientific practices in beekeeping and create awareness about…
- India
62-year-old woman mauled to death by leopard in Uttarkashi
Uttarkashi: A woman was mauled to death by a leopard in a village in Chinyalisaur block here on Friday, the village head said. Bhagirathi Devi (42) was attacked by the leopard when…