Forest Department to radio collar Baahubali
3 years, 6 months ago

Forest Department to radio collar Baahubali

The Hindu  

The Forest Department has decided to radio collar a wild elephant nicknamed Baahubali, which makes regular presence in forests and human habitations around Mettupalayam in Coimbatore district during the migration for several years. According to the Forest Department, the Chief Wildlife Warden has issued orders to radio collar the tusker, codenamed as ‘MP20T1’, for study purpose. A team has been formed to monitor the elephant round-the-clock to find when it comes to a suitable terrain where it could be darted and radio collared, said D. Venkatesh, District Forest Officer, Coimbatore Forest Division. According to I. Anwardeen, Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Coimbatore Forest Division gets its elephant population mainly from the Nilgiri elephant reserve comprising Wayanad-Mudumalai Tiger Reserve-Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve-BRT Tiger Reserve and the Nilambur-Coimbatore elephant reserve comprising upper Nilgiris-Silent Valley–Nilambur-Mannarkad-Palakkad divisions.

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Post Bandhavgarh elephant deaths, Madhya Pradesh to use satellite collars to track elephants
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Post Bandhavgarh elephant deaths, Madhya Pradesh to use satellite collars to track elephants

The Hindu  

The Madhya Pradesh Forest Department is considering to start using satellite collars on wild elephants in the State to track their movement in the wake of the deaths of 10 tuskers in the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, forest officials said on Friday. Speaking to The Hindu, State’s Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests -Wildlife L. Krishnamoorthy said that the collars will …

Post Bandhavgarh tusker deaths, MP to use satellite collars to track elephants
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Post Bandhavgarh tusker deaths, MP to use satellite collars to track elephants

Deccan Chronicle  

Bhopal: In light of the recent deaths of 10 elephants in Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, the Madhya Pradesh forest department plans to use satellite collars to track the movements of tuskers, an official said on Friday. Chief Minister Mohan Yadav earlier announced that forest officials from Madhya Pradesh would be sent for training in other states with a high population of …

Odisha Forest Department radio-collars problematic elephants
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Odisha Forest Department radio-collars problematic elephants

New Indian Express  

ROURKELA: With three solitary tuskers posing threat to human lives and property in Bonai forest division of the district, forest officials radio-collared two of them while efforts are underway to cover the third jumbo by Wednesday night. Sources in the Forest department said one of the problematic elephants was successfully tranquillised and radio-collared at a forest patch of Dharani Dhar …

Forest Department, Railways jointly inspect tracks near Coimbatore to improve safety of wild elephants
6 months, 1 week ago

Forest Department, Railways jointly inspect tracks near Coimbatore to improve safety of wild elephants

The Hindu  

Officials from the Tamil Nadu Forest Department and the Palakkad Division of Southern Railway inspected railway lines passing through the Madukkarai forest range in Coimbatore district to chalk out plans to improve safety measures for wild elephants. Divisional Engineer Anshul Bharti and Additional Divisional Engineer Bibhash Paswan from Palakkad Division joined the Forest Department team along with loco pilots and …

Kerala: Radio-Collared Elephant Tramples Man To Death In Wayanad, Residents Demand Action
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Kerala: Radio-Collared Elephant Tramples Man To Death In Wayanad, Residents Demand Action

ABP News  

A radio-collared wild elephant, which had been on the run, trampled a man to death in front of a residence at Padamala near Mananthavady in the early hours of Saturday. On Saturday, when the elephant charged towards Aji, he sought refuge within the compound of a house but the massive animal forcefully broke through the gate and inflicted fatal injuries …

Elephant Enters Kerala Home, Tramples Man To Death; Locals Stage Protest
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Elephant Enters Kerala Home, Tramples Man To Death; Locals Stage Protest

News 18  

A radio-collared wild elephant broke the gate and entered the premises of a house in Kerala’s Wayanad before chasing a 42-year-old man and attacking him to death on Saturday morning. Meanwhile, the Kerala forest department has said a tusker with a radio collar fitted by the Karnataka forest department was seen in the Wayanad forest area two days before the …

Radio Bulletin Helps Chhattisgarh Villagers Avoid Elephant Conflict
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Radio Bulletin Helps Chhattisgarh Villagers Avoid Elephant Conflict

Deccan Chronicle  

Raipur: A five-minute-bulletin on wild elephants, broadcast every afternoon by four Akashwani centres in Chhattisgarh, has turned out to be a key tool for the forest dwellers in Central Chhattisgarh to escape from the marauding pachyderms. The time also coincides with the movements of elephant herds, raising prospects of a human-pachyderm conflict”, Amalendu Mishra, the programme presenter, told this newspaper …

Human-elephant conflict: Karnataka forest department trying out-of-box solutions
11 months ago

Human-elephant conflict: Karnataka forest department trying out-of-box solutions

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: To control an increasing number of man-elephant conflicts, the Karnataka forest department is looking at out-of-the-box solutions. Explaining the method, BNP Director Prabhakar Priyadarshi said the sensors are being installed in the forest patches of Harohalli range. “We are also installing a solar smart sensor watch mechanism, where staffers will get alerts on their mobile phones once the solar …

Forest Department increases patrolling staff to drive out wild elephant entering Coimbatore villages
1 year, 1 month ago

Forest Department increases patrolling staff to drive out wild elephant entering Coimbatore villages

The Hindu  

The Forest Department has increased the number of staff engaged in night patrols in the wake of rise in frequency of wild elephants entering villages bordering forests in Coimbatore district. According to the Department, villages falling under the four forest ranges — Coimbatore, Boluvampatty, Madukkarai and Periyanaickenpalayam— were witnessing more incidents of elephants entering human habitations. District Forest Officer N. …

Increase elephant taskforce staff strength and fit radio collars on elephants that frequent human settlements: Khandre
1 year, 4 months ago

Increase elephant taskforce staff strength and fit radio collars on elephants that frequent human settlements: Khandre

The Hindu  

To minimise man-animal conflict, Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre on Tuesday asked officials concerned to increase the staff strength of elephant task forces and also to fit radio collars on wild elephants that repeatedly stray into human settlements. The minister asked the officials to increase the staff strength of elephant task forces in areas like Chamarajanagar and Kodagu district which are …

Translocated wild elephant being monitored
1 year, 4 months ago

Translocated wild elephant being monitored

The Hindu  

The Forest Department is monitoring the movement of a makhna that was translocated from Saralapathi near Pollachi to Chinna Kallar near Valparai on Monday, using signals from the radio collar fixed on the animal and with a drone. The Department on Tuesday released drone footage of the elephant grazing in a forest area of Chinna Kallar. The animal was translocated …

Forest Department to capture crop raider makhna for third time
1 year, 5 months ago

Forest Department to capture crop raider makhna for third time

The Hindu  

The Tamil Nadu Forest Department will give a third chance to a crop-raider makhna that was translocated from Dharmapuri to Anamalai Tiger Reserve in February, to live in the wild. The ongoing effort to capture and translocate the elephant for a third time, as it has been entering villages near Pollachi, will give the animal yet another chance to live …

Forest Department ramps up search for Coimbatore’s famed tusker Baahubali spotted with injured mouth
1 year, 6 months ago

Forest Department ramps up search for Coimbatore’s famed tusker Baahubali spotted with injured mouth

The Hindu  

The Forest Department on Thursday ramped up a tracking team and a veterinarian after field staff reported that Coimbatore’s famed crop raider wild elephant Baahubali, that is not known for attacking people till date, was spotted with an injury in its mouth. Forest Department sources said that some of the field staff, who were monitoring the tusker on its routine …

Arikompan takes a sojourn to Tamil Nadu forests but is back in Kerala now
1 year, 7 months ago

Arikompan takes a sojourn to Tamil Nadu forests but is back in Kerala now

The Hindu  

The radio collar fitted on wild tusker Arikompan, which was translocated from Chinnakanal to the Periyar Tiger Reserve on Sunday, indicate that it went on a sojourn to Tamil Nadu forest and is now back in Kerala forest. Before its translocation to the PTR, the forest department had attached a satellite radio collar to the tusker, which officials say provides …

Coimbatore Forest Department monitoring elephant with large lumps
1 year, 8 months ago

Coimbatore Forest Department monitoring elephant with large lumps

The Hindu  

The Forest Department is monitoring a female wild elephant that was found roaming on the forest fringes here with two large lumps. According to officials, field staff spotted the female elephant near Maruthangarai Melpathi tribal settlement within the limits of Thadagam north reserve forest in the Coimbatore forest range on Wednesday. The staff noticed two large lumps on the left …

Special radio collar for ‘rogue elephant’
1 year, 8 months ago

Special radio collar for ‘rogue elephant’

Hindustan Times  

Thiruvananthapuram In March, the high court had stayed the forest department’s order to make Arikomban a ‘kumki’ elephant after the intervention of animal activists and appointed an expert committee. As uncertainty over finding a suitable location for Idukki’s rogue elephant named ‘Arikomban’ continues, the state radio collar from Assam to be fitted on the animal reached the forest department’s office …

Two kumkis to be deployed to fix radio-collar on wild elephant Karuppan in Erode’s Talavadi Hills
1 year, 9 months ago

Two kumkis to be deployed to fix radio-collar on wild elephant Karuppan in Erode’s Talavadi Hills

The Hindu  

Two kumkis, Bomman and Sujay, both from Theppakadu Elephant Camp in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, arrived at Talavadi Hills on Monday. The elephants will be deployed in an operation to capture a wild elephant, nicknamed Karuppan, in order to fix radio collar on it and translocate it to the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve in Erode district. The wild elephant has been …

Operation to tranquilise, translocate wild ‘makhna’ elephant back to forest, begins
1 year, 10 months ago

Operation to tranquilise, translocate wild ‘makhna’ elephant back to forest, begins

The Hindu  

Field personnel of the Forest Department have begun an operation to tranquilise the ‘makhna’ elephant, which is said to be ‘resting’ in a coconut grove near Perur in Coimbatore division since Feb. 22 after straying out of the reserve forest in Pollachi division two days ago. A ‘kumki’ elephant Chinnathambi has been brought to the spot for the operation to …

Crop-raiding ‘makhna’ elephant exits forest again
1 year, 10 months ago

Crop-raiding ‘makhna’ elephant exits forest again

The Hindu  

A ‘makhna’ elephant, which was captured from a human habitation in Dharmapuri district earlier this month and released in the wild by the Forest Department, made its way again to residential areas in Pollachi and beyond on Tuesday, causing panic among people. According to Forest Department sources, the elephant had remained in the forest for 10 days before moving to …

’Operation Black’ to capture wild elephant begins at Talavadi Hills in Erode
1 year, 11 months ago

’Operation Black’ to capture wild elephant begins at Talavadi Hills in Erode

The Hindu  

On the first day of ‘Operation Black’ to track a wild elephant, nicknamed Karuppan, and fix a radio collar on it and relocate it in Talavadi Hills, three teams of the Forest Department identified the place where the elephants takes rest during day time at Akkurjorai forest area in Jerahalli forest range of Hasanur Division here on Thursday. Each team …

Two kumkis to be deployed to fix radio-collar on elephant in Talavadi Hills
1 year, 11 months ago

Two kumkis to be deployed to fix radio-collar on elephant in Talavadi Hills

The Hindu  

With a wild elephant, nicknamed Karuppan, involved in frequent incidents of negative human-elephant interactions and crop raiding in Jerahalli Forest Range in Talavadi Hills, the Forest Department has planned to deploy two kumkis to fix radio collar on the elephant and relocate it. The wild elephant ventures out of the forest and enters farm lands at Rangasamy Kovil and Joraikadu …

Tripura to Use Radio Collars to Track Elephant Movement, Prevent Conflict with Humans
2 years, 2 months ago

Tripura to Use Radio Collars to Track Elephant Movement, Prevent Conflict with Humans

News 18  

The Tripura forest department, as part of its efforts to reduce man-animal conflicts, has decided to use GPS-enabled devices to track the movement of elephants, said deputy chief wildlife warden K G Roy. The state government has also embarked on a beekeeping project in agricultural lands to prevent elephant attacks and taken steps to grow bamboo and banana in the …

Wild tusker Baahubali moves with inflamed cyst
3 years, 3 months ago

Wild tusker Baahubali moves with inflamed cyst

The Hindu  

Different teams of the Forest Department are monitoring a wild elephant nicknamed Baahubali after it was recently spotted roaming with an inflamed cyst on one of its legs near Mettupalayam. Sources in the Department said the tusker was spotted with a large cyst on its right hind leg with a white spot on it. An official from the Department told …

Opinion divided over radio-collaring of crop raider elephant
3 years, 5 months ago

Opinion divided over radio-collaring of crop raider elephant

The Hindu  

The Forest Department’s move to radio collar a crop raider tusker at the foothills of the Nilgiris near Mettupalayam town has created divided opinion among its staff, animal lovers and the public. Social media posts have started doing rounds against the radio-collaring of the elephant aged 35-40 years, naming it as a ‘harmless elephant’. Another frontline worker told The Hindu …

Third elephant radio-collared in Uttarakhand
4 years ago

Third elephant radio-collared in Uttarakhand

Hindustan Times  

The Uttarakhand forest department on Thursday radio-collared a third elephant in the state this year and released it in a forest near Haridwar to keep track of its movement during the Maha Kumbh fair scheduled there from next month. Chief wildlife warden JS Suhag said the elephant, who is around 40-year-old, is part of a herd of around six to …

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