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Delhi’s beautiful butterflies |
Srishti Jha |
The Hindustan Times , Saturday, September 14, 2013 |
For nature lovers, there is good news flying about these days: wildlife experts say that butterflies, seen most in the Capital during and after the rainy season, are increasing not just in numbers, bu ...More
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Tiger Cell in Parambikulam to boost conservation plans |
R. Ayyappan |
Deccan Chronicle , Saturday, September 14, 2013 |
Thiruvananthapuram: The forest department has formed a tiger cell in the Parambikulam Tiger Reserve for the implementation of the 10-year Tiger Conservation Plan (TCP). This is the first time a tiger ...More
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More than 20 tigers poached, says arrested trader |
Vijay Pinjarkar |
The Times of India , Friday, September 13, 2013 |
NAGPUR: In a stunning revelation, tiger skin trader Sarju Bagdi alias Suraj Bhan (28) told TOI on Thursday that four gangs of poachers and traders were simultaneously operating in a 150km radius of Na ...More
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More than 20 tigers poached, says arrested trader |
Vijay Pinjarkar |
The Times of India , Friday, September 13, 2013 |
NAGPUR: In a stunning revelation, tiger skin trader Sarju Bagdi alias Suraj Bhan (28) told TOI on Thursday that four gangs of poachers and traders were simultaneously operating in a 150km radius of Na ...More
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'Depleting green cover leads to increasing jumbo rampages' |
Alok K N Mishra |
The Times of India , Wednesday, September 11, 2013 |
RANCHI: In the wake of recent cases of rampages by elephants, experts claim urbanization is to be blamed for their occasional stray into residential areas. In the past few decades, successive govern ...More
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6 tons of seized ivory to be crushed in Denver |
AP |
Business Standard , Wednesday, September 11, 2013 |
US wildlife officials plan to crush more than 6 tons of ivory in Denver as part of a new push by the United States to combat illegal wildlife trafficking worldwide.
The ivory was seized around ...More
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MCR of tiger poachers extended till Sept 24 |
Vijay Pinjarkar |
The Times of India , Wednesday, September 11, 2013 |
NAGPUR: A local court extended the magisterial custody of 12 tiger poaching case accused till September 24 on Tuesday.
Of the 12 accused, Parman and Soberam Sawalkar, both residents of Masondi in ...More
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South Africa selling white rhinos to save them |
IANS |
The Times of India , Tuesday, September 10, 2013 |
CAPE TOWN: In an effort to curb rhino poaching, the South African government is taking a different approach - selling them.
The Kruger National Park (KNP) has sold 170 white rhinos to private ran ...More
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Poachers held, tiger carcass seized |
PTI |
Deccan Herald , Monday, September 09, 2013 |
Three persons, wanted in several cases of wild life poaching and smuggling in Maharashtra, were arrested and parts of a tiger carcass worth several crores of rupees in the international market were se ...More
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Three poachers held, parts of tiger carcass seized |
PTI |
Business Standard , Monday, September 09, 2013 |
Three persons, wanted in several cases of wild life poaching and smuggling in Maharashtra, were arrested and parts of a tiger carcass worth several crores of rupees in the international market were se ...More
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Poaching gang busted after 20 years |
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Deccan Herald , Monday, September 09, 2013 |
After a major operation against tiger and leopard skin and body parts traders, Delhi Police on Sunday claimed to have busted the ‘biggest gang of poachers and smugglers’ evading arrest for more th ...More
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Poachers’ main supplies come from Sonipat: Cops |
Somreet Bhattacharya |
The Times of India , Monday, September 09, 2013 |
NEW DELHI: A gang of poachers—the country's largest—has been busted with the arrest of one Surajpal alias Chacha (65) and Surajbhan alias Sarju. Surajpal is believed to have the strongest network ...More
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Rhino 'accidentally' killed by forest guard |
TNN |
The Times of India , Sunday, September 08, 2013 |
GUWAHATI: Kaziranga National Park suffered another setback on Saturday after a rhino was "accidentally" killed by a bullet fired by a forest guard to chase away the pachyderm in the Sotea area of So ...More
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Top tiger skin trader, 2 others held in Delhi |
Vijay Pinjarkar |
The Times of India , Sunday, September 08, 2013 |
NAGPUR: In one of the biggest actions against tiger skin and body parts trader having international links, a joint team of the Maharashtra forest department, Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) and D ...More
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Birds too struggling to survive in Kerala |
Shainu Mohan |
Deccan Chronicle , Thursday, September 05, 2013 |
Thiruvananthapuram: Poaching, environment pollution and inorganic farming are adversely affecting many bird species in the state, according to the list of the threatened birds published by the Kerala ...More
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Poachers kill another rhino |
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The Telegraph , Thursday, September 05, 2013 |
Jorhat, Sept. 4: The killing of rhinos continued at Kaziranga National Park with yet another falling prey to poachers’ bullets at the Bagori range last night.
The carcass of the female rhino was re ...More
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Tiger takes a walk, PTR in jitters |
A.S.R.P. MUKESH |
The Telegraph , Thursday, September 05, 2013 |
Ranchi, Sept. 4: An adult male tiger has sneaked out of the 1,129sqkm Palamau Tiger Reserve for the first time in its history and is on a catwalk along an unsafe 65km corridor, dotted with human habit ...More
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Another Kaziranga rhino killed |
TNN |
The Times of India , Thursday, September 05, 2013 |
JORHAT/GUWAHATI: Barely five days after a rhino was killed on August 30, Kaziranga National Park lost another rhino to the poachers on Wednesday. The poachers killed the rhino in the Bagori forest ran ...More
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