AHMEDABAD: The much-awaited three-day leopard and sloth bear census kicked off on Monday. The census began in 17 districts simultaneously across Gujarat.
AHMEDABAD: Sugar cane fields are the place to be if you are hunting for leopards. Foresters who are gearing up for the three-day leopard census starting from May 16 said that the sugar cane fields will be the main area of focus outside the protected forest areas.
AHMEDABAD: The much-awaited leopard census will be held for three days from May 16. Along with this leopard census, the state forest department officials will also conduct a census of the sloth bear in the state during the same period. The 2006 census had revealed a leopard population of 1,070 in Gujarat; the number of sloth bears then was only 247.
Legal Awareness Programme on Forest Acts held in Udhagamandalam
Udhagamandlam: The judiciary will always protect the environment of the Nilgiris, said the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, M.
Utter silence within the group. So silent you could hear a pin drop, yes, even in the long grass swaying on the plains of Masai Mara, Africa, where we were. On a safari there a few years ago, the wait to spot a leopard was excruciating
Drawing from Maharashtra experience in tackling leopard attacks, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has for the first time issued guidelines to tackle man-animal conflict across the country. Released last week, the MoEF booklet has been drafted after consultations with various state forest departments and experts working in the field.
Guidelines say animals should be released in the vicinity of capture
The national guidelines for human-leopard conflict management have advised against relocating the captured animals, a practice widely followed in Kerala.
If an animal has to be released, it should be done in the immediate vicinity of capture. Leopards are highly adaptable animals which exhibit amazing homing instincts.
PANJIM, The Ministry of Environment and Forests on Monday issued guidelines for human-leopard conflict management.
Even as forest officials here in the State are yet to receive a copy of the guidelines they are upbeat at the prospect.
The first of its kind booklet, released yesterday is a result of more than two thousand attacks all over the country in the past 10 years, most taking place no
Man-leopard conflicts have intensified to the extent that 291 leopards were reported killed in 2010 and another 235 were killed in 2009.
With the leopard population in the country dropping to 11,000, a worried environment minister Jairam Ramesh has shot off a letter to chief ministers asking them to create a trained response team to prevent their extinction as happened in the case of the cheetah.
