A herd of nine elephants, including two calves, wandered out of Bhimgad Wildlife Sanctuary and into the paddy fields around Khanapur taluk this week, in what officials say is the first elephant movement ever recorded in the Belagavi Forest Division.
Karnataka Forest Department
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.
A leopard that forest officials believed was unconscious after being hit by a vehicle near Davanagere sprang awake mid-rescue on Tuesday and attacked the official trying to tranquillise it.