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Safari rides in open-top vehicles, tree-top cottage planned in new year.

Plants 20.25 cr saplings against the target of 19.54 cr this year

The incident occurred at Bakdi post under Navra forest area of Nepanagar tehsil around 9.30 pm on Monday, Superintendent of Police (SP) Rahul Kumar Lodha said.

The forest department officials have photographic evidence based on Cartosat imagery to prove their argument.

Six from Mandaguda engaged in maintaining waterfalls in Tiryani mandal

They wore black ribbons and demanded stringent action against the killers of FRO Ch Srinivas Rao in Bhadradri-Kothagudem district.

A tiger attacked a herd of sheep in the forests of Bhupalapatnam village in Sirpur (T) mandal and killed a sheep on Saturday.

Palle Pashuvu Vanam would be developed on each fringe village where people rear cattle, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests RM Dobriyal said.

Rs. 15 lakh was being offered to each family, which has voluntarily opted to move out of the core area some seven to eight years ago

Forest minister Allola Indrakaran Reddy said that the works pertaining to creation of roads in rural parts of erstwhile Adilabad district were not progressing at desired due to inordinate delay in permissions by the National Wildlife Board (NBC).

Hyderabad: Principal Chief Conservator of Forests RM Dobriyal directed the forest department officials to set up one Central Nursery in each district and ensure that five saplings were raised in the nurseries. During a video conference with department officials here on Tuesday, the PCCF said efforts were being made to increase the number of Central […]

Hyderabad: Technology can be used for societal good. The ‘Forest AI Grand Challenge’, launched by Telangana Artificial Intelligence Mission (T-AIM) together with information technology company Capgemini, has proved that new-age technologies like artificial intelligence can be used in wildlife conservation, getting information about location, number and movement of animals across the forest area. This data […]

Hyderabad: Animal welfare volunteers on Sunday have urged people to celebrate Naga Panchami festival, which falls on Tuesday, with caution and alert the volunteers on coming across snakes that are in distress and need rescue and medical assistance. The Greater Hyderabad Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (GHSPCA), which is involved in rescue, treatment […]

Kumram Bheem Asifabad: Authorities of the Forest department conducted several awareness programmes and took up plantation of saplings to mark International Tiger Day observed in different parts of the district on Friday. In Penchikalpet mandal centre, Forest Range Officer S Venugopal participated in an awareness programme held on the premises of a school and sensitised […]

Mancherial: Authorities of the forest department reiterated that they prevented fresh encroaching of forest lands by tribals at Koya Pochamguda hamlet under Makulapet village in Dandepalli mandal. In a statement, the officials clarified that they opposed the attempts of the tribals dwelling in the hamlet to occupy 25 acres of land situated in Kawal Tiger […]

Adilabad: A war like situation can be sensed in forest fringe villages situated in different parts of erstwhile Adilabad district for the past few weeks. And, this war is between dwellers of these villages and forest department officials. People living on the fringes of forest areas have been tilling the lands allegedly belonging to the […]

Bahraich: An eight-year-old boy was killed in a crocodile attack while bathing in a pond here, officials said on Sunday. The incident occurred on Saturday afternoon and the remains of the body were recovered by divers during the early hours of Sunday, they said. Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Akashdeep Badhawan said, “Virendra of Gud village […]

Hyderabad: Apart from ensuring water to the wildlife during summer season, Forest department officials face another task of curbing poaching near watering holes. During summer season, wild animals quench their thirst at these watering holes. Taking undue advantage of the situation, poachers set up snares, traps, nets, electric wires around the watering holes in forest […]

Coimbatore: A leopard, which attacked three people in neighbouring Tirupur district, is on the prowl again, pouncing on two persons on the premises of a knitwear manufacturing unit in the district. A group of Forest department officials, with anti-poaching squad had started search operations immediately after receipt of information that a leopard had attacked two […]

Hyderabad: The Forest Department is set to plant more fruit bearing plants in forests and all along State and National highways during every season in a move to avoid monkeys from entering fields and damaging crops. These instructions were given by the Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy and Forest Minister A Indrakaran Reddy who held […]