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Forest department officials took almost nine hours to capture the rogue elephant named Chinnathambi.

 

It is the most extensive collection of eggs on a single day so far during the present season in Tamil Nadu's Dhanushkodi

The body of the elephant has been retrieved from the dam in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu. The forest department has planned to bury the elephant near the dam, after the postmortem. 

Speaking to MyNation, Nawab Shafath Ali  Khan said that the forest department made all the arrangements to safeguard tigress Avni. But, in a jungle, one cannot have control over the situation.
 

Kanakadurga and Bindu who entered the Sabarimala shrine on January 2, told the Supreme Court on Wednesday about their resolve to enter the temple again on February 12. The Maharashtra forest department has closed the case against the shooter Asghar Ali Khan in the tigress Avni shooting case. Watch MyNation in 100 seconds.

Tamil Nadu forest minister Dindigul Srinivasan, during a speech, said that prime minister Vajpayee presented a very good budget.

A passenger was caught trying to smuggle a leopard cub from Bangkok in his baggage in Chennai Airport.
 

The accused are identified as Yunus, Irfan, Imran, Noor and Riyaz from Karnataka's Kalaburagi district

 The couple spent 23 days in a forest, and they survived by eating wild fruits, tubers and coconut.

 

Deer comes to Kolar in search of food but gets chased by streetdogs instead. It was was later found in the Kolaramma temple premises.
 

Yelahanka Range forest officials reached the area where the leopard was spotted and placed a cage in the campus.

The committee said the police security should also be arranged on the forest pathway because Pamba was completely destroyed in the floods. Earlier, an Ayyappa devotee was killed in a wild elephant attack on the forest pathway to the Sabarimala shrine.

According to Karnataka forest officials, the cheetah was spotted in Devalapura, and is said to have killed two children. 

 

Vanasree temporary workers successfully captured eight pythons, and the reptiles will be released in Wayanad's dense forest

The Olive Ridley turtles visit the Dhanushkodi beach in Tamil Nadu for laying eggs in December every year. But this time the pattern changed and they visited the seashore in January because of the cyclonic storm in the region.