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1411 and counting: INDIA’S last tigers and where they live |
Nehanehasinha |
The Indian Express , Wednesday, February 20, 2008 |
Shivalik-Gangetic plains
Among the most important tiger ranges with a high density of 297 tigers over 5,177 sp km. Uttarakhand has 178 tigers, UP 109, Bihar 10
Total: 297
Highlight: The only dem ...More
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Female tigers vanishing from Panna reserve |
Staff Reporter |
Times of India , Wednesday, February 20, 2008 |
No female tiger has been spotted by tourists in the Panna Tiger Reserve (PTR) in the past four months. The revelation has sparked off fears of the feline being wiped out of the tiger reserve.
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1,411 tigers at last count, and now there are two less |
Neha Sinha |
The Indian Express , Tuesday, February 19, 2008 |
Days after tiger census report, two tiger skins, one of an adult, another of a cub, seized from Wayanad, part of the ‘success belt’
NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 18: You can knock off two more tigers from t ...More
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Protest rally at GU against rhino poaching |
Staff Reporter |
The Assam Tribune , Tuesday, February 19, 2008 |
GUWAHATI, Feb 18 – Members of the Gauhati University (GU) community on Saturday took out a procession to register their protest against the incidents of poaching of rhinos. The procession was organise ...More
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Panel to conserve biodiversity to be formed in Nagercoil |
Staff Reporter |
The Hindu , Monday, February 18, 2008 |
Nagercoil: The Nagercoil municipal council here will take necessary steps to form a management committee for conservation of biodiversity, said the Chairman, Asokan Solomon.
Inaugurating a national s ...More
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Migratory birds killed by poisoning |
Staff Reporter |
The Assam Tribune , Sunday, February 17, 2008 |
NAZIRA,Feb 16 – Despite protests against poaching and killing of wildlife and stress on implementation of the Wildlife Act, some unscrupulous people have been rampantly killing endangered species of b ...More
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Dwellers being shifted to save forests |
Staff Reporter |
The Pioneer , Tuesday, February 12, 2008 |
Efforts are underfoot to shift people living in the protected forest areas to elsewhere with a view to saving wildlife. On the initiative of the Centre and Madhya Pradesh Government, efforts are being ...More
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Winged guests find their way to dinner tables |
Staff Reporter |
The Pioneer , Tuesday, February 12, 2008 |
Despite the looming threat of bird flu and vigilance of forest officials, exotic migratory birds coming in search of a less cold home here are ironically finding their way to dinner tables.
Underst ...More
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PM urged to act on rhino poaching |
Staff Reporter |
The Assam Tribune , Monday, February 11, 2008 |
GUWAHATI, Feb 10 – Lok Sabha MP and the member of National Board for Wildlife, India, Rajen Gohain has sought the intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the matter of increasing rhino poachi ...More
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Notice to wildlife officials |
Naved Zahir |
The Tribune , Friday, February 08, 2008 |
Ropar, February 7
The ways things are in the department of forest it seems the right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing. Higher officials in the department of wildlife have no knowledge about t ...More
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Govt to tighten security in Kaziranga National Park |
Samudra Gupta Kashyap |
The Indian Express , Thursday, February 07, 2008 |
KAZIRANGA, FEBRUARY 6: In the wake of the recent incidents of poaching of one-horned rhinos inside the Kaziranga National Park, the Assam governement on Wednesday announced formation of a mobile rapid ...More
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Rhino poaching on rise again |
MANOJ ANAND |
The Asian Age , Wednesday, February 06, 2008 |
Guwahati, Feb. 5: Poachers killed yet another rhinoceros on Tuesday in Assam’s Kaziranaga National Park, taking the number of slain rhinos to 25.
While five highly-endangered one-horned rhinos, inclu ...More
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Poachers kill another rhino in Kaziranga |
Samudra Gupta Kashyap |
The Indian Express , Wednesday, February 06, 2008 |
Guwahati, February 5: Two days after a high-level committee constituted by the Assam Government recommended setting up of a special task force to tackle rhino-poaching in the world-famous Kaziranga Na ...More
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Wildlife activist held on charge of poaching |
Staff Reporter |
The Hindu , Wednesday, February 06, 2008 |
Bhubaneswar: Barely four months after bagging an award for initiatives to protect migratory birds, a wildlife activist was arrested on the charge of poaching birds from Orissa’s Chilika lake.
Dibaka ...More
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Tiger census results could be out ‘anytime now’ |
R. Krishna Kumar |
The Hindu , Tuesday, February 05, 2008 |
Census was taken up after the tiger population was wiped out at Sariska
Previous census estimated tiger count
in Bandipur to be 80
MYSORE: After the tiger count and more than two years of suspe ...More
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AASU protest rally over rhino poaching |
Staff Reporter |
The Assam Tribune , Tuesday, February 05, 2008 |
BOKAKHAT, Feb 4 – The Bokakhat subdivisional unit of the AASU took out a huge protest rally yesterday against the frequent poaching cases of rhino at Kaziranga National Park.
The rally that started ...More
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Set up special task force to protect Kaziranga rhino: panel |
Samudra Gupta Kashyap |
The Indian Express , Monday, February 04, 2008 |
Guwahati, February 3: A high-level committee, headed by State Forest and Environment Commissioner B B Hagzer, has suggested the setting up of a special task force to protect the highly endangered rhin ...More
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Protest rally against poaching |
Staff Reporter |
The Assam Tribune , Sunday, February 03, 2008 |
DERGAON, Feb 2 – After the tragic killing of a female rhino by poachers on January 19, protest from all corners have been pouring in. A protest rally was taken out recently under the aegis of Kazirang ...More
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Rhinos in peril |
Special Correspondent |
The Hindu , Saturday, February 02, 2008 |
The steady toll taken by poaching of wildlife in the national parks and sanctuaries is deeply worrying. The death of a large number of one-horned rhinoceroses last year in the Kaziranga National Park, ...More
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To save Olive Ridleys |
Staff Reporter |
The Hindu , Friday, February 01, 2008 |
CHENNAI: It is that time of the year when groups of students and nature enthusiasts go on turtle walks along the Neelankarai - Elliots beach stretch. The walks are aimed at conserving the Olive Ridley ...More
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