Three tribal youths in TN booked for teasing, slapping elephants
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Three tribal youths in TN booked for teasing, slapping elephants. Image Source: IANS News
Chennai, May 6 : The Tamil Nadu Forest Department has registered a case against three tribal youths under the Wildlife Protection Act for teasing wild elephants near Thirumurthy dam settlement area.
The Tiruppur forest officials registered the case following a video showing these youths teasing and hitting wild elephants near Thirumurthy dam settlement in Udumalpet going viral on Thursday morning.
The videos show youngsters throwing stones and slapping wild elephants and another youth running in front of a wild elephant. The video also shows another group of youths sitting on a tree and recording the incidents on a mobile phone.
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On Zoo Lovers’ Day, let’s know more about India’s first zoo the ArignarAnna Zoological Park in Chennai.
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On Zoo Lovers’ Day, let’s know more about India’s first zoo the ArignarAnna Zoological Park in Chennai.
Genesis: Madras Zoo in 1855.
Prime Mover: Dr. Edward Green Balfour, the then director of the Government Central Museum at Egmore, Madras.
Locale: I came into being on the museum premises. A year later, I was home to over 300 animals, including mammals, birds and reptiles.
Remodelled: In 1861, I was transferred to the Madras Corporation and shifted to People’s Park near Madras Central Railway Station at Park Town. I now had had 116 acres at my disposal.
Tamil Nadu: Forest dept collects 484 turtle eggs at Dhanuskodi beach ANI | Updated: Mar 07, 2021 18:19 IST
Dhanushkodi (Tamil Nadu) [India], March 7 (ANI): Tamil NaduForest Department on Sunday collected 484 turtle eggs at Dhanushkodi beach in Rameswaram. We ve collected 484 turtle eggs and kept it at a hatchery to protect them from predators and for healthy hatching, informed Marimuthu, district Wildlife Conservator of Ramanathapuram. This year we have collected 11,500 eggs, he added.
Dhanushkodi is an abandoned town at the south-eastern tip of Pamban Island in Tamil Nadu.
It is about 24 kilometres west of Talaimannar in Sri Lanka. The town was destroyed during the 1964 Rameswaram cyclone and remains uninhabited in the aftermath. (ANI)
Birds of Ramanathapuram come alive in this book
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A. S. Marimuthu, (third from right) Wildlife Warden, Ramanathapuram Wildlife Division, releases the book in Ramanathapuram on Friday. | Photo Credit: BALACHANDAR L
A.S. Marimuthu, Wildlife Warden, Ramanathapuram, and District Forest Officer P. Arun Kumar released a book published by Tamil Nadu Forest Department on birds of Ramanathapuram district.
The book was written along with the inputs of ornithologists and bird watchers.
Mr. Marimuthu praised the efforts of the forest department officials and bird watchers in writing this book. He said that initially funds were allocated by the government to publish books on birds found at the five bird sanctuaries in the district. Later, it was decided to write a book on birds found across the district, he added.
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