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Asifabad has lost a tiger to poachers for the first time in recent history. It is a wake up call for forest officials, a tiger conservation activist said

A review meeting was convened by Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, RM Dobriyal over progress relating to proposals of electricity to remote villages in erstwhile Adilabad

As per information provided by officials of Kawal Tiger Reserve (KTR), 17 tigers have gone missing from the forests of the erstwhile Adilabad district since 2013

In order to ensure that the migrating tigers make the forests of the district their home and to attract more big cats, officials of the forest department are exploring various ways

You can pedal through the dense and serene forests of the tiger reserve with the Forest department all set to introduce cycling facilities and tracks.

Jannaram Forest Divisional officer S Madhava Rao said around 30 bird species including migratory ones were spotted by participants during the event

Around 100 participants spotted over 100 bird species at percolation tanks and other spots of the reserve.

The Jannaram division of the Forest department will organise a two-day bird walk in the core area of the Kawal Tiger Reserve

As many as 40 various bird species were spotted during a day-long bird walk organised at a percolation tank

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.

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Forest minister Allola Indrakaran Reddy said that everyone was responsible to ensure an opportunity for wild animals to freely move in the forests.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]