Chennai, Jan 19 (BPNS) The Postmortem report of a 14-year-old leopardess at Arignar Anna Zoological park has revealed that esophageal rupture and pulmonary hemorrhage as the primary reasons for the death of the big cat. The leopardess, Jaya had died on Monday after it was squeezed inside the poorly maintained rusty cage at the zoo. […]
Chennai, Jan 18 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu forest department is to take action against farmers of Salem district involved in the ‘Fox ‘ ritual to bring prosperity to the families and to increase the crop quantity during the season. The farmers had captured a fox from the forest range in Vazhapadi in Salem district to celebrate […]
Chennai, Dec 30 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu forest department has constituted a special team of experts to investigate whether temple elephants in the state are being subject to harassment and whether these elephants are in a position to be held in captivity. The team constituted by the Chief Wild Life Warden of the Tamil Nadu […]
Chennai, Oct 20 (BPNS) The MDT 23 which was captured after a 22-day search in the forests of Gudalur and Masinagudi has been put in day kraal at Mysore Zoo rescue centre on Wednesday. This is to enable the animal to relax in a private space away from the visitors. Veterinarians treating the tiger said […]
Chennai, Oct 15 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu forest department officials are garnering praise from netizens after a senior forest officer tweeted an elephant calf hugging a forest official who rescued it. A few days before a group of Tamil Nadu forest officials had rescued an elephant calf that was injured and then reunited it with its […]
Chennai, Oct 13 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu forest department has sped up its combing operations in the forest tracts of Gudalur, Masinagudi, Singara areas after the hidden cameras spotted the MDT23 tiger which had remained elusive for the past five days. Chief Wild Life warden Shekar Kumar Neeraj who is heading the operations told BPNS […]
Chennai, August 11(BPNS) The Greater Chennai Corporation is planning to sterilise around 80,000 stray dogs in a period of 2.5 years. The civic body is planning to revamp its buildings and other facilities at Kannamapettai and Pulianthope to conduct 100 sterilisation surgeries a day. This rapid move is to achieve the target of sterilising 70% […]
