Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Monday chaired the Madhya Pradesh State Wildlife Board meeting at Mantralaya and issued key directions to forest department officials to strengthen wildlife conservation and tourism initiatives.
Despite repeated requests by the police and Forest Department officials, the protesters refused to clear the highway and railway tracks. Given the sensitivity of the situation, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Dehradun, Ajay Singh, visited the site late at night to assess the situati
A leopard that entered a residential area in Mira Bhayandar in the early hours of Friday and triggered panic among residents has been captured by forest department officials, authorities confirmed. The big cat had strayed into a densely populated locality and attacked seven people before
Sam Pitroda, the president of the Congress (I) overseas unit, Darshan Shankar, the founder of the FRLHT (Foundation for Revitalization of Local Health Traditions) organisation and four senior Karnataka Forest Department officials are accused of grabbing government land.
Uttar Pradesh Forest Department officials on Sunday successfully captured a leopard that had been roaming in Karkheda village of Tanda tehsil of Rampur.
A nine year old boy died in a leopard attack in the early hours of Wednesday in Pune district. The boy sustained serious neck injuries in the incident. The leopard menace has caused panic among the residents. The forest department officials visited the spot and took cognizance.
Forest department officials are diligently working to capture the sixth "killer" wolf as part of the 'Operation Bhediya' campaign, aimed at capturing a pack responsible for nine deaths and 50 injuries since July.
Though Forest Department officials and a veterinarian from the Animal Husbandry Department gave treatment to the elephant, it breathed its last on Friday morning.
The 5-year-old injured leopard which was caught by the forest department was released inside Mudumalai Tiger Reserve forest buffer zone on Saturday after a medical examination by the Forest veterinary surgeon MTR, forest department officials said.
The Government of Odisha is set to establish the world's first melanistic tiger safari near Baripada in the Mayurbhanj district, forest department officials said on Wednesday.
Following Bharatiya Janata Party MP Pratap Simha's jibe at Karnataka CM Siddaramiah for allegedly "targeting his family to save his son" after his brother Vikram Simha was arrested by forest department officials from Bengaluru over the allegation of cutting trees in the forest area of Hassan
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Pratap Simha took a jibe at Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah on Sunday for 'targeting his family to save his own son' after his brother Vikram Simha was arrested by forest department officials from Bengaluru over the allegation of cutting trees in the forest area of Hassan