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Vets to study virus turning tigers into maneaters |
Kounteya Sinha |
The Times of India , Wednesday, June 12, 2013 |
LONDON: Britain's Wildlife Vets International (WVI) plans to study whether a virus common among Indian dogs was infecting tigers of the Sunderbans and turning them into maneaters.
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Five tigers killed in a month |
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The Telegraph , Tuesday, June 11, 2013 |
Nagpur, June 10: Two men arrested last week have confessed to killing at least five tigers in Vidarbha over the past month and selling the skins and body parts to a north Indian trader, police said to ...More
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Campaign against rhino poaching |
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The Assam Tribune , Tuesday, June 11, 2013 |
GUWAHATI, June 10 – The Assam Environmental NGOs Forum on Sunday organized a signature campaign across the city protesting against the spurt in rhino poaching in Kaziranga National Park (KNP).
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Tiger found dead in Hingna range |
Vijay Pinjarkar, |
The Times of India , Monday, June 10, 2013 |
NAGPUR: Even as Nagpur forest division officials are grappling with leopard poisoning case in South Umred, a tiger was found dead in Hingna range on Sunday evening. This is the seventh tiger death in ...More
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Youth held for poaching monitor lizards |
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The Times of India , Sunday, June 09, 2013 |
KANYAKUMARI: Forest personnel nabbed a 28-year-old man for poaching monitor lizards near Boothapandi in Kanyakumari district on Wednesday. Five adult monitor lizards were seized from his house and hav ...More
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Man arrested for poaching attempt at national park |
Nikhil M Ghanekar |
Hindustan Times , Friday, June 07, 2013 |
Forest department officials in the Yeoor range on Wednesday arrested a man in Sasupada in Nagla block of the Borivli national park for hunting animals.
Based on a tip-off about the suspicious presenc ...More
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Sarus crane spotted in large numbers in state |
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The Times of India , Friday, June 07, 2013 |
JAIPUR: The state bird of Uttar Pradesh, sarus crane seems to be in a relocation mood to Rajasthan. The recent sighting of the tallest flying bird, 86 in all, is the largest number sighted at one plac ...More
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Wild cocktail at the bush bar |
J. Srinivasan |
The Hindu Business Line , Friday, June 07, 2013 |
Never mind the hours you have watched National Geographic footage of the African wild and its fascinating fauna — nothing can prepare you for being there. The spreading savannah landscape, the blazing ...More
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Poacher held with gun in Thane forest |
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The Times of India , Friday, June 07, 2013 |
MUMBAI: Forest officials nabbed a man, presumably a poacher, with a double-barrelled gun on Wednesday. The man, identified as Shankar Dev Patel from Owala village near Thane, was hiding near a nature ...More
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World Environment Day Celebrated at Kaziranga |
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Assam Times , Friday, June 07, 2013 |
Aaranyak, a society for Biodiversity conservation in NE India and the Numaligarh Refinary Limited celebrated the World Environment Day on June 5 in a unique way simultaneously at 11 locations with as ...More
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Rajasthan launches campaign to save Great Indian Bustard |
Ananda Banerjee |
Live Mint , Thursday, June 06, 2013 |
Rajasthan became the first state in the country to launch a campaign to save the Great Indian Bustard, which is on the brink of extinction.
Once in contention for being nominated as the national bir ...More
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No forest department staff hired in Manipur since 1980 |
K Sarojkumar Sharma |
The Times of India , Thursday, June 06, 2013 |
IMPHAL: Unbelievable as it may seem, no staff has been recruited in the Manipur forest department since the late eighties, which is turning out to be one of the prime causes for depletion of fores ...More
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Chennai's Point Calimere wildlife sanctuary gets bigger |
Julie Mariappan |
The Times of India , Wednesday, June 05, 2013 |
CHENNAI: The state government has expanded Point Calimere Wildlife Sanctuary, adding 12,407.27 hectares of the Great Vedaranyam swamp in Tiruvarur, Nagapattinam and Thanjavur districts.
The gazet ...More
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