Ghazipur (UP), Aug 20 (PTI) The railway police Saturday arrested two suspected women smugglers and recovered 626 turtles while they were taking them from Uttar Pradesh’s Sultanpur to Siliguri in West Bengal, officials here said. The cost of the recovered turtles is about Rs 7 lakhs, officials said. Government Railway Police station incharge Akhilesh Kumar […]
Chennai, Aug 10 (BPNS) A four-year-old girl was killed by a leopard in The Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu on Wednesday morning. The incident occurred in a private tea estate in Arakadu near Mynala. The 4-year-old girl identified as K. Sharidha is the daughter of migrant workers from Assam and forest department officials said that […]
Chennai, Aug 8 (BPNS) A male leopard involved in killing cattle in Bhavanisagar area was trapped in a cage on Monday. Forest department officials told BPNS that the leopard is six years of age. The animal has been indiscriminately killing cattle and dogs after venturing out of the Bhavanisagar Forest Range in the Sathyamangalam forest […]
Chennai, Aug 4 (BPNS) The Coimbatore Corporation is to open three more Animal Birth Control (ABC) centres after stray dog menace increases in the corporation. In the past two days, 9 people including two children were bitten by stray dogs in the city. K. Swaminathan, retired teacher, Avinashi, Coimbatore while speaking to BPNS said,” People […]
Chennai, July 29 (BPNS) On International Tiger Day, Wildlife activists and conservationists are on a high after the reported increase in the Tiger population in the Coimbatore forest division. According to conservationists, there are around 20 tigers in the Coimbatore forest division. However as the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has flagged the official announcement […]
Dileep V Kumar, July 16, Thiruvananthapuram Recurring instances of zoonotic diseases in the state have finally persuaded the government to constitute zoonosis committees at the state and district levels. According to the health department, the constitution of such committees will help in inter-sectoral coordination and achieve the ‘One Health’ approach for controlling zoonotic diseases in […]
Lucknow, July 4 (BPNS) Lucknow will soon have four dedicated ‘monkey forests’ on its outskirts to check the growing monkey menace within the city limits. As a pilot project, the first monkey forest would be developed in six acres of area in the Umaria village of Bakshi-Ka-Talab area, following which similar forests would be developed […]
Ballary (Karnataka) June 26 (BPNS) Mining baron and former BJP minister Gali Janardhana Reddy watched ‘777 Charlie’ with his pet dog in a Ballary multiplex theatre. The photos and videos of him watching the movie with pet dog have gone viral on social media. Janardhana Reddy is a pet lover and he has a Labrador […]
Chennai, May 25 (BPNS) The pre-monsoon survey of animals, both carnivorous and herbivorous, at the Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) is using the services of M-STrIPES ( Monitoring System for Tiger –Intensive Protection and Ecological Status) app developed by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA). The eight-day survey commenced on May 24 and will conclude on […]
Chennai, May 12 (BPNS) The carcass of a leopard was found at Valparai in Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR), Tamil Nadu on Thursday morning. Usman, a tea shop owner at Valparai found the dead body of the leopard in the morning when he went to check his henhouse. Usman told forest officials that the body of […]
