The state labour department rescued eight boys from makhna (foxnut) processing units in Gorgori, within the Harishchandrapur police station limits of Malda, on Thursday. A team, led by the deputy ...

Forest officials successfully rescued a tuskless male elephant, also known as a ‘Makhna’, involved in recent human-animal conflicts near Bannerghatta National Park. The operation, led by Deputy ...

The Kerala High Court dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed challenging order of the Principal Chief Conservator (Wildlife) & Chief Wildlife Warden, Kerala/1st respondent, issued in ...

Mananthavady: Karnataka Forest Department has informed that the Belur Makhna, the wild tusker that trampled Wayanad native to death, will be driven back into the deeper woods. In a meeting held on the ...

The Kowalski family. (L-R: Maya, Jack, Beata, and Kyle Kowalski). Beata was particularly invested in her daughter's illness and was, from the All Children's doctors perspectives, pushy in treating her ...

CHENNAI: The State forest department could have prevented the present ordeal of residents living on the periphery of Coimbatore if the makhna had been radio-collared when it was first captured in ...

Field personnel of the Forest Department have begun an operation to tranquilise the ‘makhna’ elephant, which is said to be ‘resting’ in a coconut grove near Perur in Coimbatore division since Feb. 22 ...

The elephant, captured and released into the wild earlier this month, left the forest again on Tuesday; on Wednesday, it was seen on the streets of a Coimbatore suburb; efforts to drive it into the ...

A crop-raiding tuskless male elephant (makhna), captured by the forest department from Dharmapuri forest division on Sunday, was translocated to the Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) on Monday. The 40-year ...

DHARMAPURI: A 30-year-old makhna that was tranquillised near Palacode forest range in the district on Sunday will be shifted to Anamalai. Dharmapuri district forest officer KV Appala Naidu told TNIE, ...