Tag: Forest department

  • Bihar: Leopard enters house, forest department rescues it and leaves it in the forest

    Bihar: Leopard enters house, forest department rescues it and leaves it in the forest

    Bettiah (IANS) | Panic spread after the leopard reached the residential area near the Valmiki Tiger Project area of Bihar’s West Champaran. A leopard entered a house in Rampur Malahi Tola village, causing panic in the village for some time. Later, the forest department team rescued the leopard and released it in the forest. Neshamani, director of the Valmiki Tiger Project area, said on Monday that a leopard coming out of the forest reached Rampur Malahi Tola village on Sunday night and entered a house in search of prey. After this he also made a goat his victim in the village.

    Seeing this, the people of the village started making noise and there was panic in the village. After the information of the villagers, the forest department team reached the village and after five-six hours of hard work, the leopard was first rendered unconscious and then it was rescued.

    He said that the leopard has been released back into the wild.

    There is a possibility that the leopard might have reached the village in search of prey. Even before this, on April 18, a leopard had reached Piprasi village, where it attacked a person. The villagers somehow managed to drive him away.

    –IANS

  • Forest department’s vehicle fell into the ditch, forest officer died

    Forest department’s vehicle fell into the ditch, forest officer died

    Road accidents are not taking the name of stopping in Uttarakhand. Road accidents are happening everywhere. Another accident has been added to the chain of road accidents. Let me tell you, the vehicle of the forest department overturned on the road and crashed near Ravada on the Sangamchatti-Agoda motorway in Uttarkashi. In which the vehicle crashed and fell into a ditch about 20 meters deep. On the other hand, as soon as the information about the incident was received, the team of SDRF and Forest Department along with the police reached the spot and took everyone out of the ditch. Three people were traveling in the vehicle during this accident, out of which one person has died.
    According to the information, the deceased person Shankar Anand was on the post of Range Officer in the Forest Department. The remaining two injured are forest guard and driver who were taken to the district hospital through 108 emergency ambulance. The injured were referred to Higher Center after first aid. At the same time, the dead body has been sent by the police for post-mortem after filling the panchnama. After this sad incident, there is mourning in the forest department.

    Let me tell you, range officer Shankar Anand, who died in the accident, was a 2018 batch officer. His wife is also posted in Tehri Dam Forest Division Forest Division on the post of Forest Officer. Both of them got married about two years back.