THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : Yet another human life was lost on the forest fringes on Wednesday, taking the death toll in Kerala from wild-animal attacks in 2023-24 to 93. A visibly shaken state government ...

Kochi: Environmentalists have requested MPs from Kerala to reject chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan's call to pressure ...

Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary, one of the most renowned wildlife reserves in India, is synonymous with the majestic elephants that roam its dense forests. Spread across 925 square kilometers, this ...

Kerala, India, August 2015—More than 55 enforcement officials, including those from 13 forest divisions in Kerala, the Police Department and the Customs and Central Excise Department in the State of ...

Since Kerala fared better in law enforcement, poaching of animals became a rare occurrence in the state. What has followed is a wildlife explosion, which cannot be sustained anymore. The trouble with ...

Elections are not fought on political issues alone in Kerala this time. The marauding wildlife population and its conflicts with humans have added a new dimension to the political discourse in the ...

P.S. Easa, member of the National Board for Wildlife, has raised serious objections to several aspects of the approach paper prepared by the Forest department on human-wildlife conflict mitigation, ...

Kerala’s proposed amendment to the Wildlife Protection Act has drawn sharp criticism as a political move lacking legal basis. In the last fifteen years alone, more than 1,500 people have lost their ...

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has directed that special measures be planned and implemented in hotspots identified in the state as high risk for wildlife attacks. The directive was issued in ...

George Joseph, a 57-year-old farmer in Koruthodu bordering forest area in Kerala’s Kottayam district, has been carrying out rubber farming on his ten-acre plantation over the past 35 years. But these ...