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| Ramnagar among hot spots of tiger poaching: Report |
| Paritosh Kimothi |
| The Pioneer , Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
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The Uttarakhand Forest department and State police recently received the Clark R Bavin Wildlife Law Enforcement Award at the 16th Conference of Parties (CoP) of the CITES (Convention on International ...More
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| Horn Please! Rhino on the horizon |
| MADHULIKA GAUTAMA |
| The Hindu , Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
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The rhinoceros’ horn fetches a great sum in the international market. The rhino’s survival on this planet is, therefore, threatened.
Have you heard of the Rhinoceros Unicornis? It’s a great bulky cre ...More
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| State govt flouted norms for irrigation project: UN body |
| Chetan Chauhan |
| Hindustan Times , Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
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A conservation body affiliated with the United Nations has claimed that the Maharashtra government has initiated the Rs. 600-crore Sarambala irrigation project in the rich wildlife habitat in Western ...More
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| Crocodiles fight it out in cramped Sathanur Park |
| J Shanmugha Sundaram |
| The New Indian Express , Monday, March 11, 2013 |
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The decades-old Sathanur Crocodile Park, one of the prime tourist attraction spots in Tiruvannamalai district, is posing a threat to the tourists, forest department personnel and zoo keepers due to in ...More
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| Delhi a tiger poaching hotspot: Report |
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| The Times of India , Monday, March 11, 2013 |
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NEW DELHI: Delhi is not close to any of the tiger belts of the country, yet it figures among the five hotspots in India connected to big cat poaching, says a report by a global wildlife trade monitori ...More
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| Saving the tiger |
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| Live Mint , Monday, March 11, 2013 |
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Protecting India’s wildlife has always been a daunting task. The poachers are always smarter, and our forest bureaucracy a step behind. In spite of huge sums of money and other resources being sunk in ...More
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| Calcutta a tiger trade ‘hotspot’ |
| JAYANTA BASU |
| The Telegraph , Sunday, March 10, 2013 |
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Calcutta is among “five hotspots” for illegal tiger trade and poaching in India, according to a study tabled at an international conference being held in Bangkok on the menace.
“Calcutta spans the ed ...More
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| China’s ivory craze leaves 32,000 elephants dead |
| Dan Levin |
| Deccan Herald , Saturday, March 09, 2013 |
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Chinese investors have anointed it “white gold.” Carvers and collectors prefer the term “organic gemstone.” Smugglers, however, use a gruesomely straightforward name for the recently harvested African ...More
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| Uttarakhand in world’s top 10 |
| Moushumi Basu |
| The Pioneer , Thursday, March 07, 2013 |
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The Uttarakhand Forest and Police Departments have received a rare honour for their work in combating wildlife crime. The State figured among the 10 recipients across the world to have received the aw ...More
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| Two poachers killed in Kaziranga encounter |
| Anup Sharma |
| The Pioneer , Thursday, March 07, 2013 |
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Two poachers have been killed by forest forces inside the famed Kaziranga National Park (KNP) in Assam on Wednesday morning.
Park Director NK Vasu said that the two poachers were killed during an enc ...More
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| Fire engulfs Chandaka forest |
| Minati Singha |
| The Times of India , Thursday, March 07, 2013 |
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BHUBANESWAR: Large tracts of forests have been destroyed in a fire in Chandaka forest division in the past few days. And, there is nobody to extinguish the flames with non-gazetted forest officials on ...More
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| UNDER FIRE |
| Sudipta Bhattacharjee |
| The Telegraph , Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
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Kaziranga National Park is under siege, with gun-toting poachers killing nine endangered rhinos, the state emblem of Assam, in the first two months of the year. The last fell to bullets on February 28 ...More
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| Increased threat of wildfires this summer |
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| The Hindu , Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
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A failed monsoon, deficient seasonal rain, rising temperatures, depleted water sources, desiccated grasslands and dried undergrowth have raised the spectre of uncontrollable fires in tropical evergree ...More
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| Forest wealth being destroyed in Golaghat |
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| The Assam Tribune , Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
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GOLAGHAT, March 5 – Incidents of killing of animals, cutting of trees and destruction of forest resources are increasing. Poaching has been increasing in Merapani, a sensitive area of the Assam-Nagala ...More
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| Google fuels illegal ivory trade: Environment group |
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| The Times of India , Tuesday, March 05, 2013 |
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BANGKOK: A conservation group claims that Google has something in common with illicit ivory traders in China and Thailand: It says the internet search giant is helping fuel a dramatic surge in ivory d ...More
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| Sunderbans mystery: Tigers getting weaker? |
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| The Times of India , Tuesday, March 05, 2013 |
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KOLKATA: A tigress was captured in the Sunderbans on Monday evening after foresters found some abnormality in its movement.
Confirming the news, Sunderbans Biosphere Reserve director Pradeep Shukla ...More
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| Shoots, kills and trades in animal parts |
| Neha Sinha |
| The Hindu , Monday, March 04, 2013 |
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As signatories to a wildlife trade treaty meet in Bangkok, it is useful to note that ‘legal’ selling of existing ivory and tiger skin stockpiles increases the threat to endangered species by creating ...More
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