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275 bird, 229 butterfly species documented in Coimbatore Forest Division in 2020 Updated: Updated: 70 naturalists and 43 Forest Department staff were involved in the year-long survey Share Article AAA 70 naturalists and 43 Forest Department staff were involved in the year-long survey As many as 275 bird and 229 butterfly species were documented in the Coimbatore Forest Division in the year-long assessment done in 2020. The survey report, released by I. Anwardeen, Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Coimbatore Circle, and District Forest Officer D. Venkatesh on Saturday, revealed that more species were documented in 2020 than in 2019 when 226 bird and 192 butterfly species were sighted. The survey, conducted by Coimbatore Nature Society (CNS), The Nature and Butterfly Society (TNBS) and WWF-India covered seven forest ranges of the division. Assistant Conservator of Forests M. Senthil Kumar supervised the exercise that saw the inv ....
Tourists throng Kovai Courtallam on reopening day Updated: Updated: COVID-19 precautionary measures were put in place for the visitors Share Article COVID-19 precautionary measures were put in place for the visitors Nearly 2,000 visitors thronged the popular tourist spot Kovai Courtallam, which reopened on Sunday after remaining closed for nine months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Pooluvapatti Forest Range Officer R. Muthukrishnan said that 1,778 adults and 218 children visited and enjoyed a bath in the waterfalls. The visitors, who were from Coimbatore, Tiruppur, Nilgiris and Erode districts, were allowed from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. COVID-19 precautionary measures were put in place for the visitors. All visitors were subjected to thermal scanning at the entrance of Kovai Courtallam and masks were made mandatory. “We provided masks if they did not have one,” Mr. Muthukrishnan said, adding that the visitors must wear masks on the premises at all ti ....
How elephant Shankar was saved by a herd of elephants during a tracking operation in the Nilgiris Updated: Updated: December 24, 2020 11:13 IST Just as trackers closed in on the rogue elephant to fire a tranquiliser dart, a herd appeared from the forest to save him Share Article AAA The search is on Tranquiliser kept ready; kumkis deployed at Pandalur M Sathyamoorthy | Photo Credit: Sathyamoorthy M Just as trackers closed in on the rogue elephant to fire a tranquiliser dart, a herd appeared from the forest to save him Where is Shankar right now? What is going through his mind? Is he aware that his dramatic escape left a trail of confusion, and grudging admiration, in Gudalur in The Nilgiris? These are questions only the elephant himself can answer. ....
380 kg of sandalwood seized from farm of forest official Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA Forest Department officials raided a farm belonging to a Forest Range Officer in Coimbatore division S. Arokiasamy in Panthaparai near here and seized 380 kg of sandalwood that were illegally stocked. He was placed under suspension by the Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Coimbatore Circle, on Friday. A special team led by Virudhunagar Assistant Conservator of Forest Alliraja raided the farm on the Rengarkoil beat of Western Ghats on Thursday. It found 86 pieces of sandalwood stocked in a room. The sandalwood was worth lakhs of rupees. ....
Forest officials suspect elephant might have moved to Kerala Updated: Updated: It could have been regularly crossing the border between the Nilgiris and Nilambur Share Article AAA Forest staff checking the camera set up to monitor the movement of wild elephants near Gudalur on Friday. | Photo Credit: M. Sathyamoorthy It could have been regularly crossing the border between the Nilgiris and Nilambur As the operation to tranquillise the wild elephant nicknamed ‘Shankar’ entered its fifth day at Gudalur in the Nilgiris on Friday, Forest Department officials suspect that the animal might have moved into Kerala. A senior Forest Department official said the tusker was not spotted anywhere within Gudalur on Friday. As per the inputs from a team that visited Nilambur in Kerala, the elephant was spotted within the Nilambur Forest Range in November. Hence, it is now being looked into whether the elephant regularly moved between Tamil Nadu an ....