Madikeri : The elusive tiger which had claimed three human lives and numerous cattle lives, has been declared dead by the forest department. After a rotting carcass of a tiger was found in Nagarahole tiger reserve limits, forest department officials confirmed it was the same animal they had been hunting for. The carcass of the […]

Bengaluru : Successfully capturing the alleged ‘man-eating’ tiger on Sunday, the Karnataka Forest Department was in for a surprise as the captured tiger was a known male tiger which was once identified in Nagarahole a year ago. According to sources in the forest department, the tiger, in the last one year, had been wandering in […]

Bangalore : Forest Minister Ramanath Rai on Monday said a CID inquiry will be conducted into the incidents of forest fires that happened over the past one year at Nagarhole and Bandipur. Responding to the questions which were raised by the MLAs, while discussing issues pertaining to the Forest Department, Rai said: “After certain MLAs raised […]

Mysore: A tigress was found dead five kilometers outside the Nagarahole tiger reserve on Saturday. It is suspected to have died due to blood poisoning owing to bullet wound it had suffered some time back. The death of the six years old tigress exposes the threat the big cats are facing on the forest fringes. […]

Nagarahole: A forest fire detected on Tuesday afternoon by forest officials at the national wildlife sanctuary in Nagarhole in Karmod sector near Hunsur since 1961 and now is raging without being controlled. Several areas of this reserved forest are on fire, with extensive loss of food and water to the beasts and birds. Areas like […]