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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
TopicBandhavgarh Tiger Reserve

Topic: Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve

Dead tiger found buried in MP’s Bandhavgarh, 2 arrested for laying snare made of electrical wires

Principal chief conservator of forest says residents often put up snares on their fields to catch smaller animals, which can be sold, but larger animals also get caught in them.

Bandhavgarh elephant deaths: IVRI report indicates presence of fungal neurotoxin, no pesticides

Report by Indian Veterinary Research Institute advises destruction of fungal-infected kodo crop residue, as well as preventing entry of animals into fields with these crops.

Heads roll over Bandhavgarh elephant deaths, CM Yadav says 2 officials suspended for shirking duties

The officials who have been suspended are Bandhavgarh Field Director Gaurav Choudhary & Assistant Conservator of Forest in-charge (ACF) Fateh Singh Ninama.

A team of MP forest officials traced Bandhavgarh elephants’ final hours. Here’s what they found

From moment tuskers collapsed 'after consuming Kodo millet & drinking from a stream', to when forest guards heard their cries as they lay in fields, an account of what happened on 29 Oct.

Toxins in dead Bandhavgarh tuskers’ blood samples. Foul play due to human-animal conflict not ruled out

Environment ministry says inquiry set up to ascertain if these toxins were accidentally ingested or fed to the elephants. Reports from MP govt & Wildlife Crime Control Bureau awaited.

2 men killed, 1 injured by elephant near Bandhavgarh, days after 10 tuskers’ deaths at tiger reserve

Attacks occurred Saturday in Deoria & Barhi. Bandhavgarh deputy director said the elephant does not belong to the herd of 13 of which 10 died due to suspected Kodo millet poisoning.

Bandhavgarh elephants might have eaten fungus-infected millets. How ‘kodo poisoning’ can prove fatal

Kodo millets can develop fungus during rains, which can be toxic for humans & animals. Crop-raiding elephants are susceptible to such natural poisoning, ecologist says.

Autopsy of Bandhavgarh tusker reveals huge amounts of Kodo millet in stomach, initial report points to toxicity

8 tuskers now dead, 1 survived. Millet samples from carcass & from fields where elephant herd grazed to be examined to confirm if fungus-laden crops were cause of death, it is learnt.

4 elephants found dead, 5 critical at Bandhavgarh. Forest officials probing if they were poisoned

The nine elephants are from the same herd of 13 elephants. Among the four dead, three are female while one is male.

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