Presence of vultures in at least half a dozen areas has been recorded for the first time by naturalists in the Nilgiris North Forest Division and Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR) during a two-day

The Rural Development Organisation (RDO) Trust has initiated a project to make the Nilgiris an Open Defecation Free district by 2018.

The Nilgiri Documentation Centre (NDC), an Ooty-based NGO involved in ecology and environmental issues, has demanded that the entire Nilgiris district be declared an ecologically sensitive area (ES

Naturalists and environmentalists are shocked by the State Forest Department’s decision to increase fodder reserves in the forests.

At present the department has created fodder reserves in Coimbatore and The Nilgiris North Forest division totally in about 450ha.
The fodder is raised in the forest areas to reduce man-animal conflict, as the wildlife stray close to human habitation in search of feed and water only. Only with this objective the fodder plots have been raised claim the forest officials.

Nearly 300 resorts/hotels in and around the forests in The Nilgiris district extract 12 lakh litres of water a day from borewells depleting sub-soil water.

Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding has started work on 60 hectares in Andamans

With several plantations likely to end their leases in the coming years, scientists are thinking ahead of means to convert them into natural forests.
Coimbatore-based Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding (IFGTB) has launched a project on a 60-hectare extent in the Andamans and it is in the process of successfully converting the teak and padauk plantations into near natural forests.

The effects of climate change have become visible in The Nilgiris, said that Project Director, Hill Area Development Programme (HADP), Srinivas R. Reddy, here on Tuesday.

Even as complaints relating to wild animals straying into human habitations and posing a threat to life and property is mounting in various parts of the district.

Of the 1,122 samples of potable water collected from homes in six districts in Tamil Nadu, NGO Consumers Association of India (CAI) found that at least 50 per cent of the water had E.

Beginning Wednesday the South Division of the Nilgiris Forest Department will operate special package tours to promote eco tourism in some of the scenic spots under its control.