Forest Department
- Telangana
Telangana: Crocodile enters cotton fields in Gadwal, rescued
Hyderabad: Farmers in Maldakal mandal headquarters of Jogulamba Gadwal district were shocked to see a crocodile entering the seed cotton field of a farmer near Devaracheruvu. The farm workers who were busy…
- Telangana
Relocation of Chenchus from Nallamala: The past and present
Hyderabad: Migration hasn’t been new to humankind or animals since times immemorial. However, the indigenous Chenchu tribes living inside the Nallamala forests have been living there for ages. It was during the…
- Hyderabad
CCTV captures leopard on Hyderabad outskirts; op launched to trap big cat
Hyderabad: Forest Department launched an operation to capture a leopard which was spotted in Shamshabad on the outskirts of Hyderabad, causing alarm among residents. The Forest Department swung into action after the…
- Bangalore
Forest Department to provide 500-acre land for Yettinahole project: Shivakumar
Bengaluru: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar on Thursday said that the Forest Department has agreed to hand over 500 acres of land, which impeded the implementation of the ambitious Yettinahole Integrated…
- Top Stories
Leopard moving around Hyderabad airport finally caught by traps
Hyderabad: Nearly a week after it was spotted, the leopard that was found moving around the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) at Shamshabad was finally trapped on Thursday night. Forest department officials…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Leopard spotted near RGI Airport at Shamshabad
Hyderabad: A leopard was sighted near the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Shamshabad late on Saturday night, April 27. The leopard’s movement was captured on a CCTV camera as it tried to…
- 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…
- News
Another tiger found death in Kagaznagar, poisoning suspected
Hyderabad: The Telangana forest department are probing into the case of the suspected killing of a male tiger aged about 5-6 years in Kagaznagar range on Sunday. The carcass of the tiger…
- India
Karnataka: BJP MP Pratap Simha’s brother arrested for felling 126 trees
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Mysuru MP Pratap Simha’s brother Vikram Simha was arrested by the officials of the Bengaluru City Crime Branch (CCB) on Saturday, December 30 for the alleged chopping 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…
