Chennai, May 29 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu forest department rescued an elephant cub from a 30 feet well in Kolapellur in Nilgiris district. The elephant cub ,according to local people, fell into the well late Tuesday night. Forest department officials were informed and by 3 am in the morning a group of 40 forest department […]
Chennai, Nov 22 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu forest department has constituted a special team of officers to capture Pandalur makhna 2 (PM2) that had killed a 57-year-old woman on Saturday and damaged several houses and buildings for the past few months. The woman was killed at Valavayal in Coimbatore district and two others were also injured […]
Chennai, Nov 5 (BPNS) The Forest department officials of Tamil Nadu are on a mission to capture a Tiger and a Leopard that had killed a cow and a dog at Udhagamandalam (Ooty), the tourist destination of the state. Forest department officials told BPNS that the Tiger had on Thursday killed a domestic cow after […]
Chennai, Nov 2 (BPNS) The forest department of Tamil Nadu is in the process of establishing an Ornithological Conservation Centre at the Agaram Reserve Forest. The upcoming centre will be located near the Kaliveli Bird Sanctuary and in the Tindivanam Forest Division. It is to be noted that the Kaliveli bird sanctuary is spread across […]
Chennai, Nov 1 (BPNS) A recent butterfly survey held at Siurmalai hills has detected the presence of five new butterfly families. The traced butterfly families are Swallowtails, Whites and Yellows, Brush-footed Butterflies, Blues, and Skippers. The study was coordinated by the Sirumalai range office of the forest department along with the NGO, The Nature and […]
Chennai, Oct 28 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu Forest Department has commenced probe after the carcass of a male elephant aged around 26 years was recovered on October 16 without its right tusk from Thadagam forest in Coimbatore forest range. Another incident of the recovery of the carcass of a female elephant on October 23 found in […]
Itanagar, July 23 (BPNS) After 18 days, eight of the 19 Assam workers, who went missing near the India-China border in Arunachal Pradesh’s Kurung Kumey district, were rescued from a jungle, officials said on Saturday night. Kurung Kumey Deputy Commissioner Bengia Nighee said that all the eight rescued workers were critical and their health condition […]
Chennai, July 8(BPNS) Tamil Nadu forest department officials have commenced preparing Detailed project reports (DPR) to identify elephant corridors in the newly declared Agasthyarmalai Elephant Reserve. It is to be noted that the Union Ministry for Environment has cleared the Tamil Nadu Forest department’s proposal to declare 1197. 48 sq km of forest land in […]
Chennai, June 27 (BPNS) The pre-monsoon bi-annual survey as part of the monitoring of National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has commenced at the Satyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR). The survey has begun at all the 10 ranges in the STR as the pre-monsoon survey is done between June and July while the post-monsoon survey is done […]
Chennai, June 16 (BPNS) The forest department officials of Tamil Nadu have warned people to stay indoors at Talavadi in Erode as a leopard that had killed a cow on Tuesday at the village is on the prowl. Officials of the Tamil Nadu forest department told media persons that they have installed drones to track […]
