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| Zimbabwe: Mugabe Donates Wildlife to North Korea |
| Sandra Mandizvidza |
| AllAfrica.com , Tuesday, May 18, 2010 |
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Harare — IT'S official. Zimbabwe is preparing to ship elephants, giraffes, zebras and warthogs as presents to North Korean communist leader Kim Jong II.
The move which is likely to stoke fires in M ...More
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| Trophy thief |
| By W. H. "Chip" Gross ESPNOutdoors.com |
| ESPN , Monday, May 17, 2010 |
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WEST UNION, Ohio -- "I've only been an Ohio Wildlife Officer for six years," said Chris Gilkey, "but this case has been my most important so far, and may well to turn out to be the biggest of my ent ...More
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| Gujarat uses technology to count Asiatic lions |
| Bhuwan Bhaskar |
| The Economic Times , Sunday, May 16, 2010 |
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AHMEDABAD: A happy civilization is credited not only with ever-growing human population, but also with the positive growth of flora and fauna. And amid talks of India emerging as a superpower in a dec ...More
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| State to set up Special Tiger Protection Force |
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| The Hindu , Friday, May 14, 2010 |
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Fully funded by the Centre and on the basis of regulations framed, using the recommendations of the National Tiger Conservation Authority, the Tamil Nadu government will set up Special Tiger Protectio ...More
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| Bangladesh migrants threaten wildlife areas in Assam |
| Bijay Sankar Bora |
| The Tribune , Wednesday, May 12, 2010 |
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Guwahati, May 11
Suspected illegal migrants from Bangladesh who have swarmed numerous sand bar isles (called “char” in local parlance) in the mighty Brahmaputra river in Assam have posed serious thre ...More
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| Spotlight on tigers makes poachers shift to leopards |
| Darpan Singh |
| The Hindustan Times , Tuesday, May 11, 2010 |
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With the dwindling tiger population, poachers are increasingly on the prowl for the country’s other big cat. And if figures are anything to go by, the leopard will soon beat the tiger in the extinct ...More
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| Panna reserve now 3 cubs full |
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| The Hindustan Times , Monday, May 10, 2010 |
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Three tiny furballs now hold the success of India's tiger conservation in their tiny paws.
The newborn tiger cubs, spotted on Friday in Madhya Pradesh's Panna national park, herald the success of the ...More
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| Black bucks falling prey to stray dogs |
| Chander Parkash |
| The tribune , Sunday, May 09, 2010 |
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Abohar, May 8
Over the past few years, stray dogs have turned dangerous enemy of black bucks, which has acquired the honour of state animal in 1989 and is also proud to be the only antelope confined ...More
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| Panna tigress spotted with 3 cubs |
| Milind Ghatwai |
| The Indian Express , Sunday, May 09, 2010 |
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At last, there's good news from Panna Tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh. 'T1', one of the two tigresses shifted to the park more than a year ago, was spotted with a litter of three cubs on Friday.
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| Tiger poaching racket busted; six held |
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| The Times of India , Friday, May 07, 2010 |
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CHANDRAPUR (Maha): Forest department officials have busted a poaching racket in the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) with the arrest of six persons and recovery of bones of the wild cat, officials ...More
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| Project tiger gets Rs. 150 crore grant |
| Pradip Kumar Maitra |
| The Hindustan Times , Thursday, May 06, 2010 |
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Here's some good news for Vidarbha's two tiger reserves -Melghat and Tadoba! The Union government has decided to release Rs. 150-crore grant to relocate villages in the tiger reserves. The state gover ...More
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| Tourists are not the problem |
| IST |
| The Times of India , Thursday, May 06, 2010 |
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Environment minister Jairam Ramesh has got this one right. He has said that his ministry has no intention to ban tourism in tiger reserves, as demanded by some sections of the environment department. ...More
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| Claws lead forest officials to tiger poached a year ago |
| Jaideep Hardikar |
| DNA India , Wednesday, May 05, 2010 |
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Three tiger claws—that’s what led forest officials to the poaching incident of a full-grown tiger, right in the heart of the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR). That too, a full year after the poac ...More
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| 'Tourists help keep poachers away from tiger reserves' |
| Himanshi Dhawan |
| The Times of India , Wednesday, May 05, 2010 |
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NEW DELHI: Opposing the ban on tourists from core regions of tiger reserves proposed by the environment ministry, Travel Operators for Tigers (TOFT) — a campaign spearheaded by international and natio ...More
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| MP tears into Gujarat over lions |
| Bhadra Sinha |
| The Hindustan Times , Wednesday, May 05, 2010 |
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The two BJP ruled states, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh (MP), are fighting for their ‘pride.’ The two are locked in a fierce battle over relocation of Asiatic lions from Gir sanctuary in Gujarat to Kuno ...More
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| Kaziranga guards kill 4 rhino poachers |
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| The Hindustan Times , Wednesday, May 05, 2010 |
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In the most successful operation ever against poachers in the northeast, guards at the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) near Guwahati intercepted and killed four poachers on Friday morning.
Acting on a ...More
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| Lions hold their ground in Gir forests |
| Jumana Shah |
| DNA India , Monday, May 03, 2010 |
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Going against the global trend of depleting numbers of big cats in the wild, the population of Asiatic Lions in the Gir forests of Saurashtra has increased by 14.5% in the past five years.
The 13th ...More
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