Forest Department
- India
Wild boars die in large numbers in Tamil Nadu, swine flu suspected
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu forest department has deployed anti-poaching watchers (APW) to look for wild boar carcasses in interior forest areas after a large number of wild boars died in the forest…
- Telangana
Telangana FRO murder: Drive out Gutti Koya tribals, demand foresters
Hyderabad: A day after the killing of a forest official by Gutti Koya tribals in Telangana’s Bhadradri Kothagudem district, forest personnel on Wednesday demanded that the government drive out encroachers of forest…
- India
Maharashtra: Anxious leopard mom reunites with three cubs in 48 hrs
Satara: In a happy ending, an anxious female leopard was reunited with her three lost cubs after nearly 48 hours, with some discreet help from the Forest Department, Karad, officials said here…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Several projects discussed in Forest dept committee meeting at Aranya Bhavan
Hyderabad: In the first meeting of the project screening committee conducted at the Aranya Bhavan on Saturday, ten projects – two on transmission, one on irrigation, two on Singernie Collieries, two on…
- India
Uttarakhand forest officer booked for killing tigress instead of using tranquiliser
A tigress was shot dead on November 14 by the Uttarakhand forest department after it strayed away into a marketplace. The wild cat was allegedly shot by a service rifle. The tigress…
- Telangana
Telangana: Forest department increases vigilance to prevent poaching
Hyderabad: Telangana forest department officials are increasing their vigilance in the forest in Telangana to prevent smuggling or poaching of birds for superstitions beliefs. Following the ‘Haritha Haram’ projects and bountiful rains…
- India
Man-eater tiger dodges hunter, flees with goat bait
Patna: The Bihar Forest Department hired noted wildlife hunter Nawab Shafath Ali Khan to tranquilise a man-eater tiger – which had killed three people and injured many others – near the Valmiki Tiger…
- Bangalore
Rs 50L solatium to kin of martyred Karnataka forest personnel: Bommai
Bengaluru: Karnataka has decided to significantly hike the solatium provided to the families of forest department personnel who lose their lives while on duty. Chief minister Basavaraj Bommai announced on Sunday that…
- Telangana
Hyderabad: Forest dept conducts ‘Vanamahotsavam’ at KBR park
Hyderabad: The Government of Telangana on Tuesday conducted ‘Vanamahotsavam’ as part of the two-week-long “Swatantra Bharata Vajrotsavalu”. The state Forest department conducted the event at KBR park on a grand scale. Noted…
- Telangana
Telangana: 109 urban forest parks born under ‘Haritha Haaram’
Hyderabad: Forest area around Hyderabad and in other areas across the state is being developed into urban forest parks by the Telangana government as part of a “green plan”. In the first…
- Telangana
Hyderabad: Telangana Police fined for cutting down trees
Hyderabad: Telangana police department was fined a sum of rupees 11,030 after two trees were cut down in the early hours of Wednesday at the Panjagutta ACP office without prior permission from…
- Telangana
Telangana: Tribals uncooperative; encroach forest lands, says DFO
Hyderabad: The Mancherial district forest officer called on the various alleged encroachments in Koyapochagudem by the tribal community here on Monday. Interacting with the media, Mancherial’s district forest officer Shivani Dogra claimed…
- Andhra Pradesh
Bear caught in Andhra Pradesh dies on way to Visakhapatnam’s zoo
Visakhapatnam: A bear, which was caught by forest officials in Andhra Pradesh’s Srikakulam district on Tuesday, died while being shifted to the Visakhapatnam Zoo. The forest department caught the bear which had…
- Telangana
Telangana: Tribal women used for encroachment, says Forest dept
Hyderabad: Officials of the forest department said on Friday that people with malicious intent to encroach upon forest land were doing so by using tribal women. Recently, protests were seen at the…
- Hyderabad
Telangana: Skill development training conducted by forest dept
Hyderabad: Soon the youth living in hamlets around the Amarabad Tiger Reserve, located around 120 kilometers south of Hyderabad, will get free training in different livelihood oriented programs. The forest department will…