Man-animal Conflicts

A tigress entered the premises of a private university in Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal, a forest official said on Saturday. The big cat went back to its habitat and there was no man-animal conflict, he said.

A man suffered injuries on his leg after a leopard attacked him while he was trying to click a photograph of the animal.

A youth in a village in Pithoragarh on Wednesday killed a leopard in self-defence, officials said.

More than 500 people and 100 elephants die every year due to conflict with each other, officials of the environment ministry said today.

The coronavirus lockdown and the resulting silence seems to have triggered a spurt in the attacks on humans by wild animals as they are often found entering the human habitats in and around the forest areas, officials in Madhya Pradesh said on Friday.

A man-animal conflict ended with a leopard being brutally killed by a mob in a Karnataka village on Wednesday in front of a forest officer. The villagers surrounded and killed the leopard with sticks in Kurubarahalli village of Chitradurga district, some 200 km from state capital Bengaluru. The incident was captured on video.

A leopard was killed this morning by villagers in Assam who also gouged its eyes out and chopped off its paws after the animal critically injured a man in the area.

A leopard caused panic after it strayed inside a court building in Gujarat's Surendranagar district on Friday. It was soon captured and no casualties were reported.

The Supreme Court questioned the West Bengal government on Monday over the use of fire torches to drive away elephants and directed the state to place before it the names and designations of the forest officials, who would be held responsible for any accident due to this.

Endangered elephants and tigers are killing one person a day in the country as humans put a growing squeeze on their habitat, according to new government figures.

Volunteers are helping Karnataka officials to count elephants at Bannerghatta National Park, close to Bengaluru. The state hopes to keep its claim as the state with the highest number of wild elephants in India.

A daredevil mother managed to snatch her three-year-old son from the claws of a leopard that had pounced on him in Chafyachapada, Aarey, last night. The incident has once again put the spotlight on the man-animal conflict in the region.

Last week, animal lovers across the country were shocked to see television channels airing heart rendering visuals of a three month old elephant calf clinging to the body of its dead mother in Assam.

It is a sight that highlights the increasing man-animal conflict in India. An elephant calf in Assam mourned the death of his mother and refused to leave her side.

The Centre's project to link Ken and Betwa rivers has become a stage for a man-animal conflict in Madhya Pradesh's Panna tiger reserve.

A tigress entered the premises of a private university in Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal, a forest official said on Saturday. The big cat went back to its habitat and there was no man-animal conflict, he said.

A man suffered injuries on his leg after a leopard attacked him while he was trying to click a photograph of the animal.

A youth in a village in Pithoragarh on Wednesday killed a leopard in self-defence, officials said.

More than 500 people and 100 elephants die every year due to conflict with each other, officials of the environment ministry said today.

The coronavirus lockdown and the resulting silence seems to have triggered a spurt in the attacks on humans by wild animals as they are often found entering the human habitats in and around the forest areas, officials in Madhya Pradesh said on Friday.

A man-animal conflict ended with a leopard being brutally killed by a mob in a Karnataka village on Wednesday in front of a forest officer. The villagers surrounded and killed the leopard with sticks in Kurubarahalli village of Chitradurga district, some 200 km from state capital Bengaluru. The incident was captured on video.

A leopard was killed this morning by villagers in Assam who also gouged its eyes out and chopped off its paws after the animal critically injured a man in the area.

A leopard caused panic after it strayed inside a court building in Gujarat's Surendranagar district on Friday. It was soon captured and no casualties were reported.

The Supreme Court questioned the West Bengal government on Monday over the use of fire torches to drive away elephants and directed the state to place before it the names and designations of the forest officials, who would be held responsible for any accident due to this.

Endangered elephants and tigers are killing one person a day in the country as humans put a growing squeeze on their habitat, according to new government figures.

Volunteers are helping Karnataka officials to count elephants at Bannerghatta National Park, close to Bengaluru. The state hopes to keep its claim as the state with the highest number of wild elephants in India.

A daredevil mother managed to snatch her three-year-old son from the claws of a leopard that had pounced on him in Chafyachapada, Aarey, last night. The incident has once again put the spotlight on the man-animal conflict in the region.

Last week, animal lovers across the country were shocked to see television channels airing heart rendering visuals of a three month old elephant calf clinging to the body of its dead mother in Assam.

It is a sight that highlights the increasing man-animal conflict in India. An elephant calf in Assam mourned the death of his mother and refused to leave her side.

The Centre's project to link Ken and Betwa rivers has become a stage for a man-animal conflict in Madhya Pradesh's Panna tiger reserve.