Temples have a long history and tradition of keeping elephants. Some temples keep elephants as they have a significance associated with a specific deity. However, the
Even as a series of elephant deaths that rocked the State is yet to fade from public memory, another tusker was found electrocuted near Madihalli in Alur taluk of the district on Saturday night.
Even as the government confirmed "cyanide poison in ragi balls" as a cause for the elephants' death, the Karnataka High Court on Friday directed the Forest Department to find out the culprits behind the episode in Kappasoge village near Nanjangud and submit a report before December 9.
THE Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will close down the facility for slaughter of buffaloes for export within two years, the decision coming ahead of elections and under mounting pressure from the Jain community.
MONITOR lizards, an endangered species, are being poached in Tamil Nad u and sold in canteens here. After seizing two monitor lizards last Friday , the Department of Forest and Wildlife has seized six monitor lizards on Monday morning at Villianur.
BERHAMPUR: Decomposed body of a wild elephant was recovered on Thursday near Sanamundia hill of Dimiria panchayat under Khallikote forest range in Ganjam district.
The forest officials of Mysore Division seized three elephants belonging to a circus company in the city on Tuesday.
Following complaints by two NGOs about the poor upkeep of the pachyderms at the Great Bombay Circus Company, the officials seized the jumbos and sent to Bannerghatta Biological Park in three trucks for treatment.
New Delhi: In one of the biggest widlife raids in the Jama Masjid area, NGO People For Animals (PFA) rescued over 500 birds and animals early on Sunday. The rescued animals include endangered white pigeons and several rabbits.
