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From relocation of villages from core areas of tiger reserve forests, launching six urban parks in a single day, keeping an eye tigers moving in from neighbouring States due to increased conservation activities, 2022 has been quite a hectic year for the Forest department.
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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
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Kumram Bheem Asifabad: The district has registered a disturbing man-animal conflict after a gap of two years. It had last seen the killing of two humans within a little over a fortnight in 2020. In two separate incidents, two tribal teenagers were killed by a tiger titled A2 when they were working in their agriculture […]
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Hyderabad: National Tiger Conservation Authority’s (NTCA) Management Effective Evaluation (MEE) team inspected Amrabad and Kawal Tiger Reserves and appreciated the initiatives taken up by the State Forest Department, besides suggesting a few measures, especially setting up Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF) for the two tiger reserves. NTCA conducts the MEE exercise once in four years […]
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Kumram Bheem Asifabad: A Management Effectiveness Evaluation (MEE) team of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) visited Itukalpahad plantation in Sirpur (T) mandal under Kaghaznagar forest division on Wednesday. The members of the team including DN Suman and Nithin Kakodkar found out measures being taken by the authorities of the forest department to protect tigers […]
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Forest minister Allola Indrakaran Reddy said that everyone was responsible to ensure an opportunity for wild animals to freely move in the forests.
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Adilabad: Forest Minister Allola Indrakaran Reddy formally launched a website of Kawal Tiger Reserve (KTR), a vast landscape dedicated to protect tigers at Aranya Bhavan in Hyderabad on Tuesday. Speaking on the occasion, Indrakaran said that visitors could know about eco-tourism spots, speciality of the reserve, wild animals, avian community, major attractions and details of […]
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Mancherial: District Forest Officer Shivani Dogra said that certain greedy persons were trying to encroach the forest lands even as they own house sites and agriculture fields at Koya Pochamguda village in Dandepalli, resulting in controversies. She along with Jannaram Forest Divisional Officer S Madhav Rao addressed pressmen here on Monday. Stating that the outskirts […]
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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 […]
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Bhupalpally: The forest officials have identified pugmarks of a tiger near KTK1 mine in the Bhupalpally mandal in the district on Sunday. The forest staff are on the job of tracking the tiger movement following the sight of a tiger crossing the national highway (Warangal-Kaleshwaram) near CR Nagar (Bambulagadda) on Saturday around 11 pm by […]
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Mancherial: Kawal Tiger Reserve (KTR) Field Director CP Vinod Kumar said that 25 acres of forest land was encroached on the fringes of Koya Poshamguda village in Dandepalli mandal recently. In a press statement issued on Friday, Vinod said that Koya Poshamguda located adjacent to Kawal Tiger Reserve never registered Podu vyavasayam or shifting cultivation […]
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Mancherial: The maiden bird walks, the Forest Department’s Kawal Tiger Reserve (KTR), ended in the core area of the facility around Jannaram mandal centre on Sunday. The Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) R Shobha was the chief guest of the event. She was joined by Field Director to Project Tiger to Kawal Tiger Reserve […]
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Mancherial: The Forest Department’s Jannaram and Khanapur divisions will jointly host the maiden bird walk in several parts of the Kawal Tiger Reserve (KTR) in order to expose its biodiversity to nature lovers, wildlife photographers and birders on February 12 and 13. Khanapur Forest Divisional Officer (FDO) U Koteshwar Rao told ‘Telangana Today’ the objective […]
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Population may be around 32 or even more, up from 26 in the last census in 2018-19
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Mancherial: Good news to nature aficionados! The much awaited jungle safari service has resumed at Kawal Tiger Reserve from Monday. Jannaram Forest Divisional Officer Madhav Rao said that the service was restarted after a gap of nearly three months. The service was suspended owing to slushy paths caused by the monsoon till October 31. He […]
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3-year-old Gabbar from TWS crossed the Penganga river and is assumed to be heading towards Kawal Tiger Reserve
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Besides the greenery, the place now has spotted deer, sambar, nilgais, monkeys, wild boars and other wild animals
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At present, there are nearly 260 solar power borewells in national parks, different forest areas, including 40 in Kawal Tiger Reserve and 25 in the Amrabad Tiger Reserve range
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The Covid-19 pandemic had forced people from all walks of life to remain indoors for quite a long time, and nature lovers missed out on activities such as trekking, bird watching, jungle safari, among others, due to the lockdown.
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Sniffer dogs will go for patrolling along with anti-poaching units to track down smugglers, poachers
