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State to have Wildlife Crime Control Bureau |
Staff Reporter |
The Assam Tribune , Monday, October 01, 2012 |
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said that the Government would set up anti-poaching camps in areas outside Kaziranga National Park, especially on the hilly stretches of the nearby Karbi Anglong fores ...More
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Assam to get wildlife crime control bureau |
TNN |
Times of India , Monday, October 01, 2012 |
GUWAHATI: The recent spurt in rhino poaching has prompted the state government to set up its own wildlife crime control bureau. Chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Sunday announced a state wildlife crime co ...More
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State to have Wildlife Crime Control Bureau |
Staff reporter |
The Assam Tribune , Monday, October 01, 2012 |
GUWAHATI, Sept 30 – Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said that the Government would set up anti-poaching camps in areas outside Kaziranga National Park, especially on the hilly stretches of the n ...More
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Assam to get wildlife crime control bureau |
TNN |
Times of India , Monday, October 01, 2012 |
GUWAHATI: The recent spurt in rhino poaching has prompted the state government to set up its own wildlife crime control bureau. Chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Sunday announced a state wildlife crime co ...More
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Rhino poaching cases to be handed over to CBI |
By our Staff Reporter |
The Sentinel , Friday, September 28, 2012 |
GUWAHATI, Sept 27: The State government has decided to hand over the rhino poaching cases taken place in the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) in the last three years to CBI for an inquiry.
Addressing r ...More
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CBI probe ordered into attacks on rhinos |
Sushanta Talukdar |
The Hindu , Friday, September 28, 2012 |
Army to be deployed in Karbi Anglong hills; Centre takes serious view of situation
Two more rhinoceroses were shot at by poachers in the Kaziranga National Park on Thursday in two separate incidents. ...More
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Jayanthi orders probe into Kaziranga rhino poaching |
Pioneer News Service / New Delhi |
The Pioneer , Friday, September 28, 2012 |
Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Thursday ordered an immediate probe into the incidents of poaching of rhinos at the Kaziranga forest in Assam by a team from the Wildlife Crime Control Burea ...More
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Poachers shoot rhino in Kaziranga, decamp with horn |
From a Correspondent/ IANS |
The Sentinel Assam , Thursday, September 27, 2012 |
JORHAT/GUWAHATI, Sept 26: Barely 48 hours after the recovery of a rhino carcass without the horn in the high security Kaziranga National Park (KNP), suspected poachers shot another rhino inside KNP on ...More
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Kaziranga National Park on high alert |
IANS |
Times of India , Wednesday, September 26, 2012 |
GUWAHATI: Anticipating a second wave of floods to hit Kaziranga National Park after incessant rains over the last week, authorities Saturday put on high alert all wildlife rescue teams of the Centre f ...More
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Human activities 'may be damaging desert diversity' |
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Economic Times , Monday, September 10, 2012 |
LONDON: Human-induced disturbances may be destabilising desert ecosystems across the world, a new study has warned.
Researchers from the Argentinian Institute of Arid Lands Research analysed the h ...More
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39 rhinos killed in 10 months in Kaziranga National Park |
PTI | Guwahati |
The Pioneer , Wednesday, September 05, 2012 |
The threat comes from poachers, who kill the rare one-horned rhinoceros for its prized horn whose price in the international market varies from Rs 40 lakh to Rs 90 lakh, and flood which is an annual o ...More
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Four in net with tiger skin points to nexus in Simlipal |
PNS.|.New Delhi |
The Pioneer , Tuesday, September 04, 2012 |
Notorious for elephant poaching, alarm bells are once again ringing in Simlipal Tiger Reserve in Odisha following recovery of the processed skin of an adult tiger in the wee hours of Monday. Four per ...More
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Hi-tech plans yet to tame poachers |
Pioneer News Service | New Delhi |
The Pioneer , Thursday, August 30, 2012 |
Despite a series of hi-tech initiatives for modernising tiger protection mechanisms in the country, cases of tiger poaching have more than doubled since 2011 till August this year.
Government statist ...More
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19 rhinos killed in recent Assam floods |
PTI |
Times of India , Tuesday, August 28, 2012 |
NEW DELHI: A total of 631 animals, including 19 rhinos, died in the recent floods in Kaziranga National Park of Assam, the Rajya Sabha was informed today.
In a written reply to the House, forest an ...More
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Naxals eat into tiger territory |
Ejaz Kaiser and Anbwesh Roy Choudhary, Hindustan Times |
Hindustan Times , Sunday, August 26, 2012 |
“What have you done for the tigers?’’ the Supreme Court recently asked the Centre, while banning tourism in core areas of tiger reserves. The Prime Minister’s Office has now sought reports from states ...More
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Paradise in danger |
G. Srinivasan |
The Hindu , Friday, August 24, 2012 |
The Western Ghats ecosystem continues to be at the receiving end of apathy from various local forces, hindering its conservation efforts
The inclusion of parts of India’s Western Ghats in the United ...More
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At the core of the debate |
Meena Menon |
The Hindu , Friday, August 24, 2012 |
The issue of forest-dwelling communities and their rights have sunk in the controversy over ban on tourism in tiger reserves
As the Supreme Court extends the ban on tourism in tiger reserves, a repor ...More
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