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Poachers of migratory birds held in Madurai |
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The Times of India , Tuesday, March 28, 2017 |
MADURAI: Two people who tried to poach migratory and resident birds nesting at Avaniapuram tank in Madurai have been apprehended by the forest department. Based on a report that appeared in the Madura ...More
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Wild side: Sell the horn, save the rhino |
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THE ASIAN AGE , Monday, March 27, 2017 |
Africa’s use of rhino horn is similar to the use here of red sanders: both are used in traditional medicine and in an extremely limited way in handicrafts, and both find great favour in the Far East.
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50 kg Sea Cucumbers seized, 2 held |
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Web India 123 , Monday, March 27, 2017 |
The Forest department and Marine police seized 50 kg Sea Cucumbers, an endangered marine species and arrested two persons in this connection at Muthammal Colony, here today. Police said acting on a ti ...More
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Doubts loom large over deer hunting episode |
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Telangana Today , Friday, March 24, 2017 |
Peddapalli: Doubts are being expressed by the people over the way the Mahadevpur hunting episode was handled by the forest department officials. Though family members of big personalities were involve ...More
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WWF to commence Ganges dolphin count in November |
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Telangana Today , Friday, March 24, 2017 |
Kolkata: The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Kolkata will start its Ganges river dolphin count in November after witnessing a dip in the number of the endangered species earlier this year.
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Rhino poaching has come down: Minister |
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The Assam Tribune , Wednesday, March 22, 2017 |
NEW DELHI, March 21 - The Union Ministry of Environment and Forest today claimed that rhino poaching has gone down with the current year witnessing poaching of only one rhino in Assam.
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To curb poaching, Kaziranga staff can use firearms sans |
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Press Trust of India , Wednesday, March 22, 2017 |
New Delhi, Mar 21 (PTI) The Assam government has taken a series of steps to curb poaching at the Kaziranga National Park, including empowering the forest staff to use firearms without prior sanction w ...More
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Millions of songbirds killed by Cyprus poachers |
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The Hindu , Wednesday, March 22, 2017 |
Poachers in Cyprus killed an estimated 2.3 million birds in autumn 2016, including 8,00,000 on a British military base, conservation groups said last week.
Poaching is banned on the Mediterranean isl ...More
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‘Shoot at sight’ against poachers in Corbett |
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The Hindu , Wednesday, March 22, 2017 |
Orders were issued after information on movement of suspected poachers in the tiger reserve
In an attempt to curb poaching of tigers from the Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR), “shoot at sight” orders were ...More
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6 held for poaching flamingos with kites |
Himanshu Kaushik |
The Times of India , Saturday, March 18, 2017 |
AHMEDABAD: Forest officialsatNalsarovar caught six persons with six flamingos including two dead birds for poaching the birds at Nalsarovar lake, the only Ramsar wetland site in the state.
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Poachers kill rhino in Assam, chop off its horn |
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The Asian Age , Saturday, March 18, 2017 |
Guwahati: In what has alerted the wildlife authorities in Assam, poachers on Friday killed yet another one-horn rhino in Orang National Park in Sonitpur district and chopped off its horn.
Informing t ...More
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Court denies bail benefit to 3 tiger poachers |
Vijay Pinjarkar |
The Times of India , Friday, March 17, 2017 |
Nagpur: Chief judicial magistrate (CJM) DP Ragit has denied bail to three dreaded tiger poachers who wanted be free birds by using Section 436-A of Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC).
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Suspected rhino poachers killed in Baihata mishap |
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The Sentinel , Wednesday, March 15, 2017 |
Guwahati/Rangia, March 14: Three suspected rhino poachers were killed when the Guwahati-bound Maruti Alto car in which they were travelling collided head on with a bus on National Highway 31 at Baihat ...More
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