Sullia : A baby elephant aged around two years, which got separated from the herd of elephants that was roaming in Mandekolu of Sullia has been rescued and is presently in the custody of the Forest Department. Wild elephants have been roaming in Mandekolu region since some days and has been damaging crops. On Thursday […]

Puttur : Forest Department personnel from Puttur on Tuesday arrested two residents of Kolthige village on the charge of killing a python. An official communiqué here gave the names of the accused as Dhananjaya, 38, and Jaya, 38, residents of Shediguri in Kolthige. A jurisdictional magistrate court has remanded them in judicial custody till July […]

Dharmasthala : Shree Kshetra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project (SKDRDP) will plant 10 lakh saplings in Karnataka at a cost of Rs 35 lakh in association with forest department, said Dharmasthala D. Veerendra Heggade on Wednesday. Speaking after launching the “bittotsava” programme of forest department at Dadanthamale reserve forest, Belalu village, Belthangady Taluk, he said that […]

Ujire : Deputy Chief Minister and in-charge of Public Works Department Govind M. Karjol promised on Sunday that the government will take steps to widen the road from Periyashanthi on National Highway 75 to Dharmasthala. Speaking to the Pattadhikari of Shree Kshetra Dharmasthala D. Veerendra Heggade after inaugurating a 2 km long newly laid four-lane […]

Mangaluru : The Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) has decided to pay Rs 60 lakh for taking up compensatory afforestation and to seek permission for the felling of the trees on the land identified for urban housing project, from the Ministry of Environment and Forest and Climate Change (MoEF). In addition, the MCC has also decided […]

Subrahmanya: The Forest Department officials in Kukke Subrahmanya arrested two persons on the charge of hunting and killing three giant squirrels in the reserve forest near the temple town on Sunday. Honnappa K. (42) of Charmata House, Nalkuru village, Nadugallu in Sullia taluk, and Ramesh P.K. (42) of Kallugudde House, Kukke Subrahmanya village in Kadaba […]

Mangaluru : The forest department and Panambur rowdy squad, two persons were arrested for possession of blackbuck skin at Tannirbhavi road. The accused who have been remanded to judicial custody are identified as Ramesh Mallappa Yadavad (51) and Raju Biradar (47), both residents of Indi taluk in Bijapur district. Two persons were seen holding something […]

Mangaluru: A Mangaluru-based snake rescuer, Tauseef Ahmed, has safely retrieved at least 23 python eggs from Kulai on the city outskirts. According to Ahmed, two local residents, Shubha and Soumya, had called him from Kodikeri in Kulai on Saturday morning. They said that a big python was found during an excavation work near their house […]

Mangaluru: Normally, from an uprooted tree to a herd of elephants barging into a farm, the forest department is responsible. But, there are only 183 staff in the forest department, responsible for the protection of the dense forest of the along the foothills of the western ghats that lie in D.K. district! Yes, the total […]

Mangaluru: The Flower City Trust, in association with Mangaluru City Corporation, Karnataka Forest department, Credai, Mohiudeen Wood and Kedium Plywood, launched the Flower City campaign in Mangaluru by planting the Red Mayflower saplings at Mangaluru Airport Road near KPT here on Sunday. Mangaluru Mayor Kavitha Sanil inaugurated the campaign by planting a Mayflower sapling in […]