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Rajasthan to set up cell to save tigers |
Staff Reporter |
Hindustan Times , Sunday, January 14, 2007 |
Indo-Asian News Service
In a bid to save tigers from poaching, the Rajasthan government has decided to set up a special tiger cell.
"To be run jointly by the police and forest department, it is like ...More
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Rise in human population big threat to wildlife: Laad |
Staff Reporter |
Hindustan Times , Sunday, January 14, 2007 |
AS PART of the ‘Save Tiger Campaign’ – the Regional Museum of Natural History organised a guest lecture by former director of Van Vihar National Park P M Laad on ‘threat to forest and wildlife’ on Sat ...More
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'Human population boom threat to wild life' |
Staff Reporter |
Central Chronicle , Sunday, January 14, 2007 |
Bhopal, Jan 13: The human population explosion was the major factor leading to the treat of the forest and wild life. It was expressed by the former Director of Van Vihar National Park, Bhopal PM Laad ...More
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Chilka lake a death trap for avian guests |
Staff Reporter |
Deccan Herald , Friday, January 12, 2007 |
DH News Service Bhubaneswar:
Orissa’s Chilka lake, Asia’s biggest brackish water lagoon and a winter home for migratory birds in the country continues to be a death trap for the avian guests.
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Capacity building key to curbing elephant poaching |
Staff Reporter |
The Pioneer , Thursday, January 11, 2007 |
Pioneer News Service | Bhubaneswar
For Steven Galster, Director of Field Operations of Thailand-based Wildaid Foundation, though elephants have fallen prey to poachers, the threat to the pachyderm ...More
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Junta allows gold mining, hits tiger park in Myanmar |
Durgesh Nandan Jha |
The Pioneer , Thursday, January 11, 2007 |
The military junta is allowing gold mines to pollute the world's largest wild tiger reserve in northwest Myanmar, and has promoted development that is destroying ethnic Kachin communities, a report re ...More
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Pong lake comes to life with migratory birds |
Staff Reporter |
The Tribune , Monday, January 08, 2007 |
Nurpur, January 7
Spread over an area of about 24,000 hectares in Jawali, Dehra and Nurpur subdivisions on the foothills of Kangra district, the Pong Dam lake has become a major attraction for touris ...More
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Poachers prey on rhinos in Nepal's Maoist areas |
Sudeshna Sarkar |
The Pioneer , Thursday, January 04, 2007 |
Continuous political turmoil and the Government's controversial policy of pardoning poachers have dealt a deathblow to the success story Nepal once revelled in - the conservation of the endangered gre ...More
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Poaching: Uttarakhand seeks Karnataka, other states’ help |
Staff Reporter |
Deccan Herald , Wednesday, January 03, 2007 |
Uttaranchal, rechristned Uttarakhand from January 1, is seeking the help of Karnataka and other states to check poaching and boost eco-tourism.
A team of Uttarakhand Forest Department recently tra ...More
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Forest officials warned against inefficiency |
Staff Reporter |
The Indian Express , Wednesday, January 03, 2007 |
Lucknow, January 02: The Principal Secretary (forests) VN Garg has ordered on Tuesday that from now on, the officers concerned of a particular forest range would be held responsible in case of reports ...More
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Poaching: Wildlife officials in dock |
S.P. Sharma |
The Tribune , Tuesday, January 02, 2007 |
Jammu, January 1
The seizure of skin of two snow leopards and the brutal killing of three Asian black bear in Jammu and Kashmir has put the wildlife authorities in the dock. The incidents have create ...More
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Bajwa re-appointed wildlife warden |
Staff Reporter |
The Tribune , Monday, January 01, 2007 |
Tribune News Service
Hoshiarpur December 30
Mr Sukhdeep Singh Bajwa, who caught Mr Puneet Goel, SDM, in the peacock poaching case has been re-appointed honorary wildlife warden of the district fo ...More
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Bajwa re-appointed wildlife warden |
Staff Reporter |
The Tribune , Sunday, December 31, 2006 |
Hoshiarpur December 30
Mr Sukhdeep Singh Bajwa, who caught Mr Puneet Goel, SDM, in the peacock poaching case has been re-appointed honorary wildlife warden of the district for two years. The notifica ...More
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Tourists 'force-fed' beef at Nameri reserve in Assam |
Syed Zarir Hussain |
The Pioneer , Saturday, December 30, 2006 |
A group of tourists from New Delhi and Mumbai on a bird-watch visit to the Nameri National Park, located on the foothills of the eastern Himalayas along Assam, fancied tasting venison and instead ende ...More
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Decline in migratory birds at Bhitarkanika |
Rajesh Behera |
The Pioneer , Friday, December 29, 2006 |
...Poaching to blame, say experts
Migratory birds flock to Bhitarkanika National Park every year during the month of September and leave for their permanent homes at the end of March.
During ...More
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Forest guards in Himachal to patrol on motorcycles |
Staff Reporter |
The Pioneer , Thursday, December 28, 2006 |
IANS | Shimla
Forest guards in Himachal Pradesh can stop trekking the vast stretches of forests. The Government is providing them with motorcycles to better protect the flora and fauna.
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Recovery of deer skins baffles cops |
Vikram Jethwani |
The Pioneer , Tuesday, December 26, 2006 |
Poaching network in State, fear authorities
Jabalpur police have recovered 18 skins of deer and four of black buck and about 12 deer-horns on Monday. Besides, a gun and other equipment used for hun ...More
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Tribal bill opens forests to merciless mafia death |
Rashme Sehgal |
Asian Age , Saturday, December 23, 2006 |
New Delhi, Dec. 22: By opening forest land to developers, the recently passed Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Bill of 2006 (STOTD) could prove to be the ...More
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1.50 lakh birds set to migrate to Pong Dam |
Staff Reporter |
The Pioneer , Saturday, December 23, 2006 |
Pong Dam reservoir of Kangra district is full of migratory birds. More than 70,000 migratory birds have arrived in different areas of Pong Dam reservoir during the last three months from Central Asian ...More
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