Suvendu orders crackdown on illegal sawmills, timber smugglers as Forest Week begins
The Chief Minister stressed that survival of saplings was more important than the number planted.
The Chief Minister stressed that survival of saplings was more important than the number planted.
A drive by the Forest Department to demolish illegal prawn dykes inside the Bhitarkanika National Park was halted on Wednesday after villagers staged a protest at Karandiapatana village under Mahakalapada Forest Range in Odisha's Kendrapara district, claiming they have depended on shrimp farming for their livelihood for decades.
In yet another glaring case of alleged negligence in monitoring and surveillance by field staff of the Madhya Pradesh Forest Department, a radio-collared adult tiger that was recently rescued from a village and released into the jungle was found dead in the buffer zone of the Panna Tiger Reserve (PTR) in Madhya Pradesh.
The animal was first sighted in Hawai Nagar in the early hours and later moved towards Birsa Chowk, disrupting traffic and forcing residents to remain indoors.
Environmentalist Subhash Dutta has written to the District Magistrate of Birbhum, Dhabal Jain, seeking a ban on the playing colours at the Sonajhuri forest in Santiniketan during Basant Utsav.
The reign of terror caused by a man-eater wolf that had gripped Bahraich district finally came to an end in the early hours of Thursday, as a trained shooter from the Forest Department shot and killed the predator in an encounter.
The Forest Department sleuths Tuesday captured a leopard that had been roaming the highly-secure Dogra Regiment Cantonment area of Ayodhya for a year.
Startled by the deaths of two male elephants within three days in Haridwar, the Uttarakhand Forest Department has begun removing high-power electric fencing erected by farmers around agricultural fields adjoining forest areas. The move followed the recovery of two elephant carcasses on September 26 and September 29 in the Haridwar Forest Division.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee urged the people to save the ecosystem.
The forest department has imposed a complete ban on tourists into the Sundarbans Tiger Reserve area from 15 June to 15 September for the third consecutive year, citing wildlife breeding concerns.
