RASHME SEHGAL

The ministry of environment and forest has not taken any decision to reintroduce the cheetah in India.

BHUBANESHWAR: The existing corridors between elephant habitats of the State degrading, the Wildlife Wing has identified 15 stretches - both old as well as new - for its management plan.

The State Government had recently announced an elephant management plan for conservation of the large animals and protection of their habitats.

In a bold attempt to rehabilitate hand-raised clouded leopards, two cubs looked after by the Bodoland Territorial Council, International Fund for Animal Welfare and Wildlife Trust of India in Kokrajhar, were transferred to a forest rehabilitation site last morning. The relocation was supported by the Eco-Task Force of the Indian Army.

BHUBANESWAR: Since April, at least 17 elephants have died in Orissa, boasting of the largest jumbo population in the eastern region. Their number has risen and so has their misery.

In the last 10 years, approximately 400 pachyderms have died in Orissa. The decade also marked an upswing in mineral and industrial activities.

Sunny Sebastian

JAIPUR: Despite the setbacks on the tiger front in the recent years, the country is considering the re-introduction of cheetah, the animal which went extinct in 1947, into its wild. A time frame of six months has been kept for selecting a terrain for the animal which has an amazing reach being the fastest animal in the world.

M Madhusudan | New Delhi

Southern Railways plans to prune its train services and further reduce their speed to check increasing incidents of wild elephants being overrun by trains passing through the reserve forest area in the Coimbatore-Palakkad section.

Jamshedpur, June 3: The state forest department will organise a two-day seminar, starting tomorrow, to educate its employees on how to protect wildlife.

The Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) will hold the workshop at the forest guesthouse in Dalma. Forest officials and field staff will be educated on how to prevent crimes against wildlife such as poaching and smuggling of animal body parts.

Close to the foothills of the Himalaya four tigers ventured out of forests and killed 11 people in the past five months. The killings have challenged the official understanding of man-eaters. Unlike the man-eaters of Kumaon Jim Corbett wrote about, these were not rendered incapable of hunting by either old age or injury. All four tigers were young; two were adolescents.

New Delhi: The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau and the Tamil Nadu Forest Department, working with Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), on Sunday seized skins of a tiger and a leopard in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu. While one tiger was found dead in Pilibhit and another in Ranthambhore on April 4, a two-year-old tiger cub was found dead in Chandrapur near Tadoba tiger reserve, Maharashtra, on Monday.