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‘Benefit Must Go To Animals’: Supreme Court On Nilgiris Elephant Corridor Dispute | India News

‘Benefit Must Go To Animals’: Supreme Court On Nilgiris Elephant Corridor Dispute | India News

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Last Updated:December 20, 2025, 16:49 IST The Supreme Court said that the “benefit must go to animals”, describing them as the unvoiced sufferers of unchecked commercial development. The Supreme Court of India. (File) The Supreme Court has underscored that when conflicts arise between wildlife and commercial activity, courts are inclined to protect animals, noting that they bear the consequences silently when natural migration routes are obstructed by human intervention. A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi on Friday deferred the hearing on a set of petitions filed by hotel and resort owners in the Nilgiris to January, observing that the matter requires in-depth examination. During the proceedings, the bench remarked that the disputed establishments are located within an identified elephant corridor and are primarily driven by commercial interests. Such constructions, the court noted, disrupt the natural movement of elephants. It added that the “benefit must go to animals”, describing them as the unvoiced sufferers of unchecked commercial development. The petitions challenge directions requiring hotels and resorts to …

Encroachments along streams in Ketti valley flood farmlands and roads, allege Nilgiris residents

Encroachments along streams in Ketti valley flood farmlands and roads, allege Nilgiris residents

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Encroachments along streams in the Ketti Valley is leading to localized flooding events during spells of heavy rain. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Encroachments along two streams that lead into the Kattery Dam is leading to localised flooding events near villages in the Ketti valley, allege residents. The encroachments, being carried out by farm owners in the area, has led to the two streams, originating from Adhigaratti and Gandhipettai, becoming extremely narrow in certain sections of its course. C. Subramani, Councillor of Ward 7 in Adhigaratti town panchayat, said that the stream course has been narrowed to less than 10-feet in width in certain sections. “In places where it should be between 30 and 50-feet in width, it has been reduced to 10-15 feet due to people dumping sand and mud along the banks of the stream in order to increase the size of their land parcels,” said Mr. Subramani, who added that he had submitted a complaint about the issue to the Nilgiris district collector in the past. The two streams are part of a …

Ensuring the safety of elephants

Ensuring the safety of elephants

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The accused in the elephant poaching case in Dharmapuri. Photo: Special Arrangement During the 1990s and early 2000s, the forest brigand, K. Veerappan, who held sway over the forests of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, was notorious for poaching elephants for ivory. While that is now a distant memory for most people, the recent poaching of an elephant in Pennagaram taluk in Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu once again highlights how the illegal, lucrative trade in wildlife products continues to pose an existential threat to the safety of wild elephants. On February 27, poachers shot dead an elephant and burnt the carcass in a bid to destroy evidence. The incident sent shock waves through the Forest Department, which discovered the carcass a few days later, and among animal lovers. The Department detained one of the alleged poachers, G. Senthil. A fortnight later, Senthil was found dead in the forest with a rifle on his remains. While officials have claimed that a handcuffed Senthil assaulted the forest staff and escaped, Senthil’s family and activists have raised suspicions …

Draft electoral rolls for Nilgiris district released

Draft electoral rolls for Nilgiris district released

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The draft electoral rolls for the 2025 special summary revision for Nilgiris district was released by District Collector Lakshmi Bhavya Tanneeru here on October 29, 2024 (Tuesday). According to the draft list, the district has a total of 5,78,961 voters — 2.77 lakh male voters, 3.01 lakh female voters and 19 third gender voters. Updates made in the revision added 2,119 new voters, a press release from the Nilgiris district administration said. Voters who wish to delete names from the electoral rolls, make corrections and change address can approach designated officers between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. on all working days with their requests. Special camps for submitting Forms 6, 6A, 7, and 8 will be held on November 16, 17, 23, and 24 at the respective polling stations, the Nilgiris district administration said. Published – October 29, 2024 06:47 pm IST Disclaimer: We do not own any of the content, ideas, images, or text presented here. All rights belong to their respective owners. For more information and to view the original source, please visit …

Draft electoral rolls for Nilgiris district released

Seven trekking routes identified in Anaimalai, Coimbatore, and Nilgiris

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The Tamil Nadu government has identified seven trekking routes in Anaimalai, Coimbatore, and the Nilgiris, and the public can book slots to trek on these routes by visiting the website: www.trektamilnadu.com. Recently, Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin had launched the said website which lists out 14 easy trek routes and 12 hard trek routes. Seven of these routes are located in the Coimbatore region. The easy and medium routes in the region include Monomboly in Anaimalai Tiger Reserve, which is 10 km long and costs ₹1,499, the Burliar stretch, which is 2 km long and costs ₹949, the 17-km stretch from Chadivayal to Siruvani costing ₹3,149, and the Pollachi-Aliyar route covering 8 km and costing ₹1,999. The hard routes are: the 12-km-long Velliangiri Hills stretch to be trekked in 10 hours and costing ₹5,099, the 9-km-long Sembukarai to Perumalmudi route to be trekked in five hours and costing ₹2,948, and the 8-km-long Top Slip route to be trekked in four hours, costing ₹4,699. While booking, the trekkers will have to pay an additional …

Nilgiris police warn of action against those spreading fake news of ‘love jihad’

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The Nilgiris district police have warned of stern action against “miscreants” who were spreading “false news” that a woman who was murdered by her husband and her in-laws was a victim of “love jihad,” – a conspiracy theory spread by right-wing elements to target members from the minority Muslim community. The victim of the crime, Ashika Parveen, 22, was found dead on June 23, 2024. She was married to J. Imran Khan, 30, when she died, with Imran’s family informing Ashika Parveen’s parents that she suffered a seizure, from which she died later in the hospital. “On August 20, the chemical analysis report was received and it stated that the cause of death was cyanide poisoning. Based on the report, the deceased’s [sic] husband and mother-in-law were questioned and they confessed that they poisoned her with cyanide,” the Nilgiris district police said on Monday (September 2, 2024) evening. While police initially suspected that the reason for the murder was due to Imran and his mother demanding dowry from Ashika Parveen, they have come to learn …

Senna spectabilis removed from 400 hectares of Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in the Nilgiris

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Senna spectabilis. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The highly invasive tree, Senna spectabilis, has been removed from around 400 hectares of the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) since January of this year, said officials from the Tamil Nadu Forest Department. The tree, which is estimated to have spread over 1,500 hectares of the tiger reserve in just the last few years, decimates native forests and local ecology, and is believed to have been introduced to the landscape by four private estates in MTR, who had begun growing them as ornamental trees. Officials said that the Madras High Court had ordered the removal of the tree, due to the impact it has to local ecology from both Mudumalai and Sathayamangalam Tiger Reserves. Speaking to The Hindu, Conservator of Forests and Field Director of MTR, D. Venkatesh, said the Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Limited (TNPL) is removing and helping to transport the trees away from MTR for use in paper pulp manufacturing. “Removing the trees also reduces the chances for forest fires,” he said. Officials said …

Art exhibition in the Nilgiris

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Parvath Nilgiris is hosting its seventh curated art exhibition at Solo Art Gallery in Udhagamandalam for International Women’s Day, featuring 30 artists from across India with paintings curated by Shobha Premkumar. The exhibition showcases artworks of various sizes, created using mediums such as water colour, acrylic, oil and resin, a press release said. The exhibition was inaugurated by Sabitha Bhojan, Independent Director of HUDCO, and Padmini Suresh, Founder Principal of The Oxford Continental School, was the guest of honour. It would run till March 17. Source link

Badaga community members refuse to allow bus to ply to SC/ST villages in the Nilgiris

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“If you cut us, do we not bleed?,” thunders an exasperated Vinod Kumar, a resident of Koranur village near Udhagamandalam in the Nilgiris. Vinod Kumar resides in one of two villages populated by Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) communities in Ebbanad panchayat. The two villages, home to more than 45 Dalit and Adivasi families, were overjoyed after bus services were recently extended to Koranur from Ebbanad village, populated by the dominant Badaga community. However, their joy of no longer having to walk from Koranur and Bikkapathy Mund, measuring 2 km and 4 km respectively to Ebbanad, soon turned to anger and frustration after hundreds of people from Ebbanad staged a protest for over five hours late Wednesday evening, preventing the bus from reaching Koranur. The extension of the bus service by 2 km to Koranur was not only going to benefit the residents of the village, but also the Toda hamlet of Bikkapathy Mund, whose residents’ daily commute by walk would have been halved if the buses stopped at Koranur. The bus to …

Finding the balance between entrepreneurship and Adivasi values in the Nilgiris

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In the town of Ayyankolly, Pandalur, around 80 km from Udhagamandalam town, a small women’s collective of Adivasi youth is working on knitting a quilt on which a story of the community and its reliance on the forest is being told. The community of youth, mostly from the Paniya, Kattunayakan and Kurumba Adivasi communities, are part of Urumala, a micro-enterprise that “builds capacity and skills of Adivasi women through sewing, embroidering, needle work, product design and business skills”. Urumula is one of two micro-enterprise models functioning under the umbrella of the Adivasi Innovation Hub, launched by the Action for Community Organisation, Rehabilitation and Development (ACCORD) to help generate livelihoods and develop entrepreneurship skills for Adivasi communities in the Gudalur and Pandalur regions of the Nilgiris. Collectivism and sustainability “The goal of the Adivasi Innovation Hub is to incubate at least five Adivasi-run micro enterprises in the next five years, all driven by Adivasi values on collectivism and sustainability which can gradually be run by the Adivasi youth,” said Anil Misquith, an adviser with ACCORD. The …