Forest officials have vaccinated two female leopards against pregnancy and released them back into the wild, in a trial meant to ease conflict with people without killing or removing any animals.
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Corbett Tiger Reserve has published a programme for Wildlife Week running from 1 to 7 October, with a cyclothon, school debates on corridors and eco-tourism, clean-up drives and panel discussions across Ramnagar, Kalagarh and Kotdwar.
Kerala will double the compensation it pays for deaths and crop losses caused by wildlife attacks, the state’s forest minister said on Tuesday, as human-wildlife conflict keeps causing fatalities and crop damage in several parts of the state.
A wild tusker with a long history of raiding villages near Panniyar in Idukki killed a 47-year-old tribal man in the small hours of Wednesday, an attack sharp enough that the Kerala Forest and Wildlife Department has now promised to relocate the animal out of the region.
A leopard that broke into a house in Himachal Pradesh’s Sirmaur district on Friday, going after a dog inside, stayed trapped in the room for the next 36 hours before forest officials could safely tranquillise and release it back into the wild on Sunday.
A second villager injured in an August jackal attack in Jharkhand’s Bokaro district has died, 36 days after the bite and despite receiving anti-rabies vaccination, leaving ten other injured villagers demanding a fresh medical review before anyone else falls ill.
Seven predator-proof livestock corrals built from local stone, mud and chain-link fencing by herders in Ladakh’s Sumdo have kept snow leopards and wolves out for two straight years, a turnaround from a six-month spell in 2020 that cost the settlement more than 100 sheep and goats across a dozen separate attacks.
A tiger killed a 65-year-old farmer in Chamarajanagar district’s Badagalapura village on Monday evening, and by Tuesday morning villagers were refusing to let the Forest Department move his body until they had a firm promise of compensation and a government job for his family.
Anti-poaching patrollers in Bandhavgarh are facing a monsoon threat that has nothing to do with poachers this year: venomous snakes climbing into patrolling huts to escape the rain.
A wild elephant is moving through the Marangi-Bakiyal forest block near Numaligarh, in Assam’s Golaghat district, with an old tyre wedged tightly around its neck.