Tamil Nadu: Seven people fined Rs 50,000 each for hunting spotted deer in Hosur
Seven people were fined Rs 50,000 each for allegedly hunting spotted deer and selling the meat, Denkanikottai Forest Department said.
Seven people were fined Rs 50,000 each for allegedly hunting spotted deer and selling the meat, Denkanikottai Forest Department said.
A Tamil Nadu Forest Department team, set up to probe the death of two tigers near the Avalanche dam in…
Tamil Nadu forest department on Monday captured a wild 'Makhna' elephant which was destroying crops at Saralapathy near Pollachi district.
Two labourers died while four were severely injured due to lightning strike in the Kachhar village under the Bakswaha police station area in the Chhatarpur district, according to the police on Saturday.
The Forest Department has set a target to carry out an afforestation drive in approximately 257 hectares of hilltops across 15 Forest Divisions in the state under the "Mukhya Mantri Green Cover Mission".
About 70-75 migrant workers had returned to their ancestral village Khanda during the lockdown.
Talking to The Statesman, Milon Kanti Mondal, divisional forest officer (DFO) of Durgapur, said, “In the past few months since the lock down period started in late March, our forest department has rescued and saved nine pythons, two falcons, three eagles, big turtle, three big and rare owls, rare sand boa, krait, cobra, Russel viper , monkey etc. Most were injured. Birds have been treated and released in the dense forest parts.”
Different research reports indicate the presence of 86 snow leopards in Uttarakhand.
On Monday night, the tigress had attacked a farmer who later died, following which the local people had vandalised the forest ranger's office in protest.
'As part of the probe and evidence collection, the arrested person was taken to the plantation shed where he would help two others in making the crackers,' said Forest officer Aashique Ali U.