JORHAT, Aug 9: At a time when the State Government as well as the Centre emphasized on the development of all sides in the State with their much touted claims like
JORHAT, Aug 5: The sharp increase of leopards in the last one decade in the district has proved conservation efforts successful but in the absence of a concrete project to sustain and help in further multiplication, the wild cats are increasingly coming into conflict with man with the former losing out in the battle for survival.
JORHAT, July 15: More than a 100 strong elephant herd which has been creating havoc in areas of North-West Jorhat since last month is now exploring the isles along the Brahmaputra.
Forest Department sources said that, the herd moved from Kartik Sapori to Aruna Sapori last night and that forests guards were camping at Kolbari, the nearest place adjoining the Aruna Sapori.
JORHAT, July 6: As many as 19,000 hectares of land comprising 4,717 hectares crop area and 41,000 population have been affected in the first wave of flood in Majuli sub-division of Jorhat district. According to the report received from district administration of Jorhat, more than 40 villages of the riverine island have been submerged by flood water in the last couple of days.
JORHAT, May 12: The man-animal conflict in Jorhat has received a new dimension with hordes of rhesus monkeys menacing villages in North-West Jorhat. The area which comprises cultivable farms of fruits, vegetables and paddy are facing depredations on a daily basis.
A farmer of Madhya Goru Mora village, Robin Bora, said that it is impossible to cultivate a single vegetable on 10 bighas of land.
JORHAT, May 7: The flood displaced people of Majuli, the reverine island of Asom, are still residing on the embankment at North-West Jorhat under Dergaon legislative assembly constituency. As many as forty families which are displaced from their original homesteads of Majuli are still languishing in the open at no. 8 spur along the river Brahmaputra for the last few decades.
