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Sloth bear, 4 dogs electrocuted near Navegaon |
Vijay Pinjarkar |
The Times of India , Friday, June 28, 2013 |
NAGPUR: Even as poaching of tigers in the forest areas of Vidarbha has cast a shadow on protection measures in territorial forests, a sloth bear was poached by unidentified persons near DhabePaoni und ...More
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MP may regain its 'Tiger state' tag |
Bagish K Jha |
The Times of India , Friday, June 28, 2013 |
INDORE: Going by the claims of Madhya Pradesh forest minister Sartaj Singh, the state might regain the crown of being a 'tiger state', when the next count is carried.
Minister on Thursday said tha ...More
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Tigers caught in Tadoba buffer red tape |
Vijay Pinjarkar, |
The Times of India , Friday, June 28, 2013 |
NAGPUR: More than three years after the buffer zone around Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) was notified and a year after the area was brought under the control of the field director, protection ac ...More
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Bird Paradise Turns Poachers' Den |
Subhro Niyogi, |
The Times of India , Thursday, June 27, 2013 |
KOLKATA: Sunderbans' Piyali island, a paradise for bird-lovers at dawn, becomes a haven for poachers at dusk. That is the horror that nature enthusiast and wildlife photographer SuvrajyotiChatterjee d ...More
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Leopard filmed snatching dog from Mumbai home |
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Deccan Chronicle , Thursday, June 27, 2013 |
Mumbai: Alarming video footage from the financial capital shows a leopard creeping into an apartment block foyer and snatching a small dog, which it quickly drags away from the scene.
The incident ...More
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Madhya Pradesh unsuitable for big cats: Study |
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The Times of India , Tuesday, June 25, 2013 |
AHMEDABAD: Madhya Pradesh is a major poaching ground with a strong gun culture. This was the finding of Empower Foundation, a Mumbai based NGO working on Sanjay Gandhi National Park's man-animal confl ...More
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2 poachers detained in MP to be brought to city |
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The Times of India , Tuesday, June 25, 2013 |
NAGPUR: Two suspected tiger poachers belonging to the Baheliya community of Katni in Madhya Pradesh who have been detained in Jabalpur are likely to be brought to the city to probe their connection wi ...More
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Once predators, they now protect wilds |
Hemant Kumar Rout |
The New Indian Express , Sunday, June 23, 2013 |
Once a hardcore poacher in Odisha’s Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR), the second largest in the country, he has now turned into a wildlife protector. Thanks to the forest authorities and wildlife activ ...More
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Five-member team to probe poaching |
Vijay Pinjarkar |
The Times of India , Saturday, June 22, 2013 |
NAGPUR: Bewildered by the startling revelations made by three arrested tiger poachers, the wildlife wing has constituted a five-member core team of forest officials to dig deep into the poaching incid ...More
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2 held for poaching endangered turtles |
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Deccan Chronicle , Saturday, June 22, 2013 |
Cuddalore: Two persons have been arrested on charges of poaching endangered turtles at Samadhikuppam in the district and four turtles have been recovered from their possession.
A volunteer of the ...More
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CBI gets vital clues on KNP rhino poaching |
Pankaj Borthakur |
The Assam Tribune , Saturday, June 22, 2013 |
JORHAT, June 22 – In its initial stage of investigation into rhino-poaching cases in Kaziranga National Park (KNP), the CBI has got “some vital clues” after the Forest Department detained a “dreaded p ...More
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Days and nights in the forest |
Ramki Sreenivasan |
The Hindu , Saturday, June 22, 2013 |
Cerebral malaria, leeches, poisonous snakes, running out of food, contaminated water, exhaustion from tough climbs were the known hazards when we planned an expedition to the jungles of Namdapha in th ...More
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Pits dug by poachers found in Tadoba buffer |
Vijay Pinjarkar |
The Times of India , Friday, June 21, 2013 |
NAGPUR: Even as organized tiger poachers are desperate to target the big cats in the region, disclosure of pits dug to lay metal traps in Tadoba landscape has exposed officials' tall claims that all ...More
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Narikurava man held for poaching 37 protected birds |
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The New Indian Express , Thursday, June 20, 2013 |
Forest officials on Wednesday arrested a 25-year-old man belonging to the Narikurava community for poaching cormorants, a species of bird protected under the Wildlife Act, at Ayyapakkam Lake near Thir ...More
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23 peacocks found dead in Rajasthan |
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The Times of India , Wednesday, June 19, 2013 |
JAIPUR: Seventeen peacocks were found dead in Rajasthan's Tonk district.
The police registered an FIR suspecting that the peacocks were poisoned by poachers.
According to the police, some vil ...More
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