Principal Chief Conservator of Forests

‘One cannot teach leopards, but one can teach people how to behave’

October 18, 2021 2:39 am

Sunil Limaye, who has been the director of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) in 2012, is the only forest officer in the state who has two creatures --- a spider and a lizard -- named after him.

Bombay High Court quashes order to shoot 'man-eater' tigress

June 29, 2017 6:21 pm

"NTCA guidelines state that tiger shouldn’t be killed unless it is habituated to human deaths, elimination of tiger should be the last resort after failure of all efforts to capture it live, reasons should be declared to justify declaration of the animal as man-eater," said petitioner’s lawyers.

City’s only elephant keeper may lose jumbos

February 18, 2014 3:17 am

Tiger found dead in Pilibhit

August 14, 2012 4:13 am

No body parts missing but poaching suspected

Left leader seeks culling of monkeys

April 14, 2012 12:12 am

Culling is a scientific process of removing breeding animals from a specific target group.

‘Social forestry plans conservative’

February 09, 2011 4:15 am

Two top state officials have admitted that the government's outlook has been "conservative" and the needs of people in villages,especially for fuel,should be provided through forest resources in the future.

Bahraich killings not by one tiger,say officials

January 14, 2011 3:35 am

The state forest department has said the three attacks on humans over the last week in Bahraich were not made by a single tiger.