PALAKKAD: The government has decided to raise the compensation to the dependants of the people killed in attacks by wild elephants from Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh, according to Forest Minister Benoy Viswom.

The Minister said this while speaking to mediapersons at Olavakkode on Friday.

BY AMIT S. UPADHYE

Oct. 1: It had all the elements of human drama - courage, ingenuity, grit and imagination. Except, in this case, in a scene straight out of Jungle Book, a herd of elephants came to the rescue of a calf that fell into a well at Bannerghatta National Park (BNP).

NALBARI, Sept 30: People of Indo-Bhutan area in Baksa district have to spend sleepless night because of elephant menace since a few days. According to the local residents, a number of wild elephants came down from the dense forest of Into-Bhutan area, in search of crops, as a result of which crops in varying degree, in different places were being destroyed.

DONKAMOKAM, Sept 19: Khom Sangma (65), of village Wakanta group nine kilometres away from Donkamokam died after he was attacked by wild elephants.

By Sanjay Gubbi

When a leopard strays, if the crowd is dispersed, the animal escapes and causes no harm to anyone.

Newspapers yesterday were filled with the story of a leopard killed by police and mob at Mysore. In terms of column space it overtook the fall of major financial institutions in the US. Coincidentally, there were two such incidents in Ramanagar and Udupi the same day. Was it the best way to handle the situation? Could we have reduced injury to people and rescued the animal?

Salvaged: A kumki elephant helping the wild elephant at the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve near Udhagamandalam on Tuesday.

Udhagamandalam: A male elephant which was struggling to get out of a mud pit was rescued by a forest team headed by the Tiger Reserve veterinarian Kalaivanan at Ombetta, a part of Kargudi range inside the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve on Tuesday.

Enquiries revealed that sometime in the night or early in the morning, the pachyderm which was playing in the mud pit near the Ombetta lake had put one of its tusks under a root.

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PERNEM, SEPT 15

A proposed observatory in Nilgiri forests threatens to disturb wildlife movement In early 2000, a team of scientists gathered at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics in Kolkata and decided to revive research on neutrinos, tiny elemental particles that can pass through almost all matter unhindered. A flurry of meetings followed culminating in a project called India-based Neutrino

Kolkata, September 11 Wildlife experts and forest officials in West Bengal are caught in a strange dilemma when it comes to the growing human-elephant conflict in north Bengal. It is a price they are paying for the success story of elephant conservation, they say. With north Bengal boasting of a healthy elephant population of 400 elephants