Forest Department in a sentence

Kereilhouvi Angami, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests & Head of Forest Force, has attributed the increase in forest cover to the consistent efforts of the officers and field staff of the Forest Department in protection and conservation activities.

The officials of the forest department advised residents of nearby villages that whenever they saw any jackal, they should inform the forest department about it.

The Forest Department will conduct an adalat at Thamarassery on October 5 to settle various grievances of the people related to the Forest department.

When the counsel for one of the petitioners said the forest department has roped in a “sharp shooter” to straightaway kill the tigress, the bench said “We have said that they (forest department) will be bound by their order”.

A five-year-old male leopard that was trapped in a farm well in Sathyamangalam, and rescued by the Forest Department on Friday, July 21, 2023, was responsible for the killing of goats and dogs in the fringe areas of the forest, officials said.

I immediately informed the police and the forest department authorities and forest officers told me that they would tranquilise the leopard and shift it.

Mangaluru Range Forest Officer Rajesh Baligar on Sunday, urged voluntary organisations in the city to take up tree sapling plantation to rejuvenate the green cover and promised all help from the Forest Department.

The draft came under heavy criticism from civil society on the grounds that it gives more power to the forest department authorities, including giving them the power to shoot people, and undermines the role of forest dwellers.

Kerala’s forest cover may be extremely fragmented and prone to recurrent human-animal conflict, but it continues to be home to a thriving tiger population, an extensive study by the state’s forest department shows.

A massive drive is being undertaken by the forest department officials to drive the elephant back into Chandaka forest.

The Sangu-Matamuhuri Reserve Forest within the CHT region, where Rahman’s CCA team works, officially falls under the jurisdiction of the forest department.

This peculiar question has come in the way of the forest department which has been finding it tough to catch the big cat that has already claimed at least nine lives in the Ralegaon forest area of Yavatmal district in Maharashtra.

Friday’s visit was the second boat expedition of the week by a team of police and officials from the forest department, tribal welfare department and coast guard, Pathak said.

Standing opposite the building, looking it in the eye, is the mighty Gamhar, numbered 965. Most old trees in the area are numbered by the Central Public Works Department, while the new ones have been numbered by the forest department, says Dwivedi.

According to official sources, as many as 21 teams comprising 105 forest department officials have been engaged in the counting of both the domestic and migratory birds, which commenced from 6 am and would continue till 12 pm today.

A forest department official said that an immediate relief of Rs 25,000 is being given to the family of each victim.

A senior serving officer from the state forest department on the condition of anonymity said, “The worrying factor is that political appointments are made in the state wildlife board.

But demanding compensation from the Karnataka Forest Department, the relatives refused to accept the body and left the hospital.

Despite everyone knowing what was taking place, neither the Forest department nor transport or anyone from the district administration took any action to stop these excesses until the road almost became unusable,” informed social activist BM Marak.

People in the Aralam area are tribes and we are being killed mercilessly by wild elephants, but the forest department turns a blind eye.