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Experts want CBI to probe tiger poaching case |
Vijay Pinjarkar |
The Times of India , Wednesday, June 19, 2013 |
NAGPUR: Poachers killed 10 tigers between 2002 and 2004 in Sariska in Rajasthan wiping out the entire population of big cats in the tiger reserve. The resulting uproar led the prime minister to orde ...More
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Madhya Pradesh team in Nagpur to quiz poachers |
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The Times of India , Wednesday, June 19, 2013 |
NAGPUR: Even as forest officials are grappling with the probe into the tiger poaching incidents in the region, a team from Madhya Pradesh is reaching Nagpur to quiz the accused.
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One more held in Melghat tiger poaching case |
Vijay Pinjarkar, |
The Times of India , Tuesday, June 18, 2013 |
NAGPUR: Investigating officials from Melghat on Sunday evening arrested one more person to help tiger poachers lay metal traps in Ghatang range where a tiger and a bear were killed.
The accused fro ...More
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Captive breeder of national bird in old city goes scot-free |
Rahul V Pisharody |
The New Indian Express , Monday, June 17, 2013 |
It was just over a month since forest officials seized 12 peacocks from the old city residence of a pet shop owner and slapped cases against him. Sleuths of the anti- poaching squad could not arrest h ...More
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CID staff crunch comes as boon for peacock poachers |
Yathiraju |
The New Indian Express , Monday, June 17, 2013 |
Poaching is said to have claimed more lives of peacocks in the three regions of Mysore and Chamarajanagar districts of the six districts that come under Madikeri Division of CID Forest Cell.
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Hardcore poacher turns wildlife protector in Similipal |
Hemant Kumar Rout |
The New Indian Express , Sunday, June 16, 2013 |
Once a hardcore poacher in Similipal region, he has now transformed into a wildlife protector. Thanks to the forest authorities and wildlife activists, the life of Dhanuram Soren (55) has taken a U-tu ...More
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Gentle giants face threat from worms |
K A Shaji |
The Times of India , Sunday, June 16, 2013 |
The elephant deaths in the Sathyamangalam forest reserve stand out because Tamil Nadu has a reasonably good record in conservation.
Though forest department was unwilling to provide statistics, mos ...More
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Drought kills jumbos in Veerappan country |
K A Shaji |
The Times of India , Sunday, June 16, 2013 |
COIMBATORE: It's been nearly a decade since Veerappan, the brigand who is suspected to have killed at least 200 elephants, was killed. However, the forests of Sathyamangalam on the Tamil Nadu-Karnat ...More
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Gentle giants face threat from worms |
K A Shaji |
The Times of India , Sunday, June 16, 2013 |
The elephant deaths in the Sathyamangalam forest reserve stand out because Tamil Nadu has a reasonably good record in conservation.
Though forest department was unwilling to provide statistics, most ...More
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Poachers slay two blackbucks |
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DNA , Friday, June 14, 2013 |
Carcasses recovered, poachers escape; cops say animals killed near Barwala.
carcasses of two blackbucks were recovered from two suspected poachers astride a motorcycle in Barwala taluka on Thursday m ...More
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Poached peacock meat served in Mysore hotels |
Lawrence Milton, |
The Times of India , Thursday, June 13, 2013 |
MYSORE: If three arrested poachers are to be believed some hotels in Mysore are secretly serving peacock meat to select customers.
The startling revelation came to the fore following their arrest a ...More
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Not 5, poachers kill 9 tigers in 2 months |
Vijay Pinjarkar |
The Times of India , Thursday, June 13, 2013 |
NAGPUR: A day after TOI reported that five tigers were killed by organized gangs of tiger poachers belonging to the notorious Baheliya community from Katni in Madhya Pradesh, it is feared that the poa ...More
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Now, he sleeps better at night |
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Deccan Chronicle , Wednesday, June 12, 2013 |
He’s helped save 870 snakes, 1,783 pigeons, around 50 parrots and scores of other animals and challenges anyone to “find the meat of wild animals anywhere along the highway till Vijayawada and Mahabub ...More
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Poachers, who hoped to sell peacock meat, arrested |
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Deccan Herald , Wednesday, June 12, 2013 |
Sleuths attached to the forest mobile squad seized the carcasses of 11 peacocks and 28 birds at Udayagiri in the city, on Tuesday, and arrested three men on the charge of poaching.
The arrested hav ...More
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Bear too was killed in tiger trap in Melghat |
Vijay Pinjarkar |
The Times of India , Wednesday, June 12, 2013 |
NAGPUR: The poaching saga is getting murkier. It was not just the wildcat on which culprits lay their hands on, a bear also got caught in the metal traps laid for tigers in Ghatang area close to Melgh ...More
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