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India News: MYSURU: A massive force has been deployed — backed by technological support, trained elephants, and cages — to track and capture a tiger that mauled a.

The guardians of our greens, this statutory body has played a pivotal role in protecting the Indian environment. Here are some of its landmark judgements

India has at least 150 elephant corridors spanning 15 range-states across four elephant-bearing regions, with West Bengal topping the list with 26 such land strips, according to a new Union Environment Ministry report.

According to Avinash Krishnan, a wildlife conservationist and director, science and conservation at A Rocha India, the carrying capacity of reserves is a pertinent issue that has been overlooked so far. There is a dearth of empirical study that can anecdotally establish that the reserves have reached their carrying capacity and thus the spillover effect has led to recent conflict and death cases.

The wildlife conservationist also reminded the ministry about the recommendation of the Elephant Task Force constituted by the Union government in 2010 that advocated for the setting up of a statutory body and naming it the National Elephant Conservation Authority (NECA).

Mysuru/Hassan: The forest department on Friday captured a tusker which has triggered fear in the hearts of people in the MM Hills region in Hanur talu.

“On average, the ETF helpline is receiving five to six calls daily. Any person living in the vicinity of BNP and facing human-elephant conflict issues such as crop degradation can call this number. Currently, we are attending to calls from a three- to five-kilometre radius of BNP. Most of these complaints are from boundary areas, as these are high-conflict zones. The helpline was set up on June 30, and to date, we have received more than 120 calls,” said Prabhakar Priyadarshi, Deputy...

The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday suggested that 24*7 control rooms set up by State government for receipt of information about man-animal conflicts in areas surrounding forests be connected with...

Eshwar Khandre along with Kanakapura MP D K Suresh visited the residence of Veerabhadra who died in an elephant attack in Ramanagara district on June 3.

The Kerala High Court on Wednesday ordered that the rogue elephant, Arikomban, which had been wreaking havoc in human settlements in Chinnakkanal and Santhanpara Panchayaths in the Idukki District,...