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Large number of Kerala animals, plants in Red List |
K.S. Sudhi |
The Hindu , Monday, October 13, 2008 |
KOCHI: From Myristica malabarica, a tree found in swamp forests, to birds such as painted stork and black-headed ibis and mammals such as Malabar civet and Nilgiri tahr, a large number of plants and a ...More
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Forest dept gets detectors for hidden traps |
Prithviraj Singh | Dehradun |
The Pioneer , Friday, October 10, 2008 |
The cumbersome and agonising manual method of unearthing traps laid by poachers for animals may soon be a matter of past for the State Forest Department. According to departmental sources State’s two ...More
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49 species face grave threat of extinction |
PTI |
The Asian Age , Friday, October 10, 2008 |
New Delhi, Oct. 9: Over 49 mammal species in India including tiger, gibbons, bats and deer are facing gravest level of extinction threat resulting from habitat destruction, pollution and poaching, the ...More
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‘Poaching rampant in Koorachundu’ |
Staff Reporter |
The Hindu , Thursday, October 09, 2008 |
Kozhikode: The wildlife study wing of the Youth Hostel Association of India’s Faroke Tile City Unit has found rampant hunting of wildlife in the Kattullamala area of the Koorachundu grama panchayat.
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Increasing tiger, panther population noticed in TN |
PTI |
Times of India , Wednesday, October 08, 2008 |
ERODE: The wild life population in Sathyamangalam forests in this district has started increasing, thanks to the efforts taken by officials to provide sufficient water to animals and control poaching ...More
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Sunderbans tiger was shot twice |
Monotosh Chakraborty,TNN |
Times of India , Wednesday, October 08, 2008 |
KOLKATA: It may be the first time in two decades that a tiger has been poached in Sunderbans. The carcass of the adult male — with two bullet injuries in its head — was spotted floating in a river by ...More
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One sent to jail for poaching sambars |
Pioneer News Service | Lalkuan |
The Pioneer , Friday, September 12, 2008 |
One poacher was nabbed by the officials of the Terai (East) section of the Dolly Range near Kotkhars jungle along with the carcass of a sambhar.
Dolly Range regional officer RK Srivastava said duri ...More
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After tigers, poachers now target leopards |
Staff reporetr |
Times of India , Sunday, September 07, 2008 |
PTI
NEW DELHI: With increased vigilance on the illegal trade of tiger parts, the poaching mafia has shifted its focus on leopards, whose bones fetch the same price as that of tigers in the interna ...More
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Spl KNP teams deployed for monitoring migrating animals |
Staff reporter |
The Assam Tribune , Saturday, September 06, 2008 |
A correspondent
JORHAT, Sept 5 – The flood wave which hit Kaziranga National Park on August 22 has submerged about 50 per cent of the total area of the conservation hotspot, abode of the one-horned ...More
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'Chinkaras killed for meat' |
Staff reporter |
Times of India , Friday, September 05, 2008 |
Himanshu Kaushik ,TNN
AHMEDABAD: The lions in Gir may have been poached for their bones, claws and hide, but chinkaras are killed only for feasts, confirm foresters.
Forest officials also agre ...More
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Cubs of dead Ranthambore tigress found |
Staff reporter |
Times of India , Friday, September 05, 2008 |
Anindo Dey,TNN
JAIPUR: Officials of forest department have found the two cubs of the tigress which died in what appears to be a territorial fight at the Ranthambore tiger reserve. The eight-month- ...More
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Two rhinos drown in Kaziranga |
Staff Reporter |
Times of India , Tuesday, September 02, 2008 |
GUWAHATI: Two rhino calves drowned as an overflowing Brahmaputra inundated a large part of Assam’s Kaziranga national park, the last refuge of one-horned rhinoceros.
According to park officials, t ...More
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Leopard poaching on rise, 12 skins seized since July |
Neha Sinha |
The Indian Express , Monday, August 11, 2008 |
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 10: In a poaching trail that covers much of North Indian leopard habitat, the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) seized a leopard skin at Vikasnagar, around 40 km from Dehradun, on ...More
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35 snakes get new lease of life |
Staff Reporter |
Times of India , Friday, August 08, 2008 |
NAGPUR: While the Nag Panchami festival on Wednesday ended positively for 35 snakes that got a new lease of life after being released from captivity in the wild just a day later, Jitendra, the lone so ...More
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Ancestors of chickens studied for conservation |
Staff Reporter |
Times of India , Thursday, August 07, 2008 |
KOLKATA: The ancestors of domestic chickens and poultry are being conserved and studied by scientists in case the domestic birds are eradicated by outbreak of diseases like bird flu.
The wild Red ...More
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Historic moment for Sariska tiger reserve |
Sunny Sebastian |
The Hindu , Wednesday, July 30, 2008 |
SARISKA (Rajasthan): The tiger has landed, at last. After a gap of four years, it made a comeback to the Sariska Tiger Reserve (STR) in Alwar district on Saturday.
This is the first time a wild tige ...More
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