Forest Department
- India
Man-eater tiger dodges hunter, flees with goat bait
Patna: The Bihar Forest Department hired noted wildlife hunter Nawab Shafath Ali Khan to tranquilise a man-eater tiger – which had killed three people and injured many others – near the Valmiki Tiger…
- Bangalore
Rs 50L solatium to kin of martyred Karnataka forest personnel: Bommai
Bengaluru: Karnataka has decided to significantly hike the solatium provided to the families of forest department personnel who lose their lives while on duty. Chief minister Basavaraj Bommai announced on Sunday that…
- Telangana
Hyderabad: Forest dept conducts ‘Vanamahotsavam’ at KBR park
Hyderabad: The Government of Telangana on Tuesday conducted ‘Vanamahotsavam’ as part of the two-week-long “Swatantra Bharata Vajrotsavalu”. The state Forest department conducted the event at KBR park on a grand scale. Noted…
- Telangana
Telangana: 109 urban forest parks born under ‘Haritha Haaram’
Hyderabad: Forest area around Hyderabad and in other areas across the state is being developed into urban forest parks by the Telangana government as part of a “green plan”. In the first…
- Telangana
Hyderabad: Telangana Police fined for cutting down trees
Hyderabad: Telangana police department was fined a sum of rupees 11,030 after two trees were cut down in the early hours of Wednesday at the Panjagutta ACP office without prior permission from…
- Telangana
Telangana: Tribals uncooperative; encroach forest lands, says DFO
Hyderabad: The Mancherial district forest officer called on the various alleged encroachments in Koyapochagudem by the tribal community here on Monday. Interacting with the media, Mancherial’s district forest officer Shivani Dogra claimed…
- Andhra Pradesh
Bear caught in Andhra Pradesh dies on way to Visakhapatnam’s zoo
Visakhapatnam: A bear, which was caught by forest officials in Andhra Pradesh’s Srikakulam district on Tuesday, died while being shifted to the Visakhapatnam Zoo. The forest department caught the bear which had…
- Telangana
Telangana: Tribal women used for encroachment, says Forest dept
Hyderabad: Officials of the forest department said on Friday that people with malicious intent to encroach upon forest land were doing so by using tribal women. Recently, protests were seen at the…
- Hyderabad
Telangana: Skill development training conducted by forest dept
Hyderabad: Soon the youth living in hamlets around the Amarabad Tiger Reserve, located around 120 kilometers south of Hyderabad, will get free training in different livelihood oriented programs. The forest department will…
- Telangana
Telangana: Leopard spotted at Hetero Labs plant, causes panic
Hyderabad: A leopard was seen entering the Hetero Labs plant in Sangareddy’s industrial area on Thursday via a CCTV camera. CCTV footage shows a leopard emerging on the bottom left of the…
- Telangana
Telangana: Efforts to make forests plastic-free set in motion
Hyderabad: The Telangana Forest Department has set up special teams to collect plastic waste and is making efforts in the direction of making forests, tiger reserves, and national parks to be “plastic-free…
- Offbeat
Four held for ‘raping’ Bengal monitor lizard in Maha forest
Mumbai: Four persons were arrested for allegedly raping a Bengal monitor lizard in Sahyadri Tiger Reserve (STR) in Maharashtra, a forest official said on Wednesday. The incident, which occurred at Gothane village…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Telangana Forest Department wins big at Numaish
Hyderabad: A stall set up on behalf of the Telangana Forest Department won the first prize among all the stalls set up by Government departments at the 81st All-India Industrial Exhibition, popularly…
- Telangana
Telangana forest department to plant 1.4 crore saplings
Hyderabad: 1.4 Crore saplings will be planted across the state at unoccupied plots by November 2022. The sapling drive will be initiated by the Telangana Forest Department. On Tuesday, the announcement was…
