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Bird lovers want `Project Bustards' |
Staff Reporter |
The Hindu , Wednesday, March 09, 2005 |
JAIPUR, MARCH 8. Even when the Project Tiger is showing signs of turning into a disappointment with the wild tigers missing from the country's sanctuaries of late, bird lovers have sought setting up o ...More
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104 rhinos died in Kaziranga in ’04 |
Staff Reporter |
The Assam Tribune , Wednesday, March 09, 2005 |
GUWAHATI, March 8 – As many as 104 rhinos died in the Kaziranga National Park last year, of which, 100 died natural death and four were killed by poachers. This was disclosed by the Minister of State ...More
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If Sariska is scary, drive through MP’s showcase sanctuary |
Jay Mazoomdar |
The Indian Express , Sunday, March 06, 2005 |
PANNA (MADHYA PRADESH), MARCH 5: More than a month after The Sunday Express first reported on the vanishing tigers of Rajasthan, prompting PM Manmohan Singh to express his concern, it turns out that e ...More
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Dead tigers fail to draw PC's notice |
Surojit Mahalanobis |
Times Of India , Wednesday, March 02, 2005 |
NEW DELHI: Dead tigers of Sariska failed to evoke any sympathy from FM Chidambaram. Those who had been looking for provisions in the budget for ecology and environment were left shell-shocked on Monda ...More
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Monitor skin musical instruments seized in Orissa |
Staff Reporter |
The Indian Express , Saturday, February 26, 2005 |
DHENKANAL: Mahima devotees thronging the Magha mela at Joranda, near here, will go back home this year without their memento. 'Khanjani', the favourite musical instrument of the Mahima devotees, has b ...More
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India Inc roots for wildlife |
Staff Reporter |
The Hindu Business line , Friday, February 25, 2005 |
Mumbai , Feb. 24
SOME wildlife buffs continue to be sceptical but the fact remains that the biggest names in Indian business are now rooting for natural habitat conservation.
In the wake of recent ...More
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When grey suits came together to help stripes |
Staff Reporter |
The Indian Express , Friday, February 25, 2005 |
Mumbai, February 24: SARISKA’S missing stripes have the grey suits in Mumbai’s concrete jungle worried. In a first of sorts, stalwarts from India Inc came together on Thursday to announce their disple ...More
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Stars & stripes: India rallies to save the tiger |
Staff Reporter |
Economic Times , Friday, February 25, 2005 |
MUMBAI: The tiger is a large-hearted gentleman with boundless courage and when he is exterminated — as exterminated he will be, unless public opinion rallies to his support — India will be poorer by h ...More
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Ranthambore to gift tigers to Sariska |
Lokpal Sethi |
The Pionee , Thursday, February 24, 2005 |
The wildlife authorities in Rajasthan may shift a couple of tigers to the Sariska wildlife sanctuary from Ranthambore, if no tigers are found in the Sariska forest during the tiger census in May.Thoug ...More
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A ban on India |
Staff Reporter |
Business Standard , Wednesday, February 23, 2005 |
India has traditionally been a leading advocate of protecting wild fauna and flora. But its wildlife preservation credentials have become suspect--so much so that the United Nations Convention on Inte ...More
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Elephant `ritual' to promote eco-conservation |
Staff Reporter |
The Hindu , Tuesday, February 22, 2005 |
PATHANAMTHITTA, FEB 21. A unique show in which elephants performed puja to venerate Vanadevata, the goddess of forests, was organised by the Forest Department as part of an eco-tourism project at the ...More
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Tigers run for cover as govt looks the other way |
Gouri Shah |
Times Of India , Friday, February 18, 2005 |
MUMBAI: The list goes 39 leopard skins, two tiger skins, 42 otter skins, 60 kg of tiger and leopard paws, 3 kg of tiger claws, 14 tiger canines, 10 tiger jaws and other bones, and about 135 kg of porc ...More
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Missing wild tigers rock House |
Staff Reporter |
The Hindu , Tuesday, February 15, 2005 |
JAIPUR, FEB. 14. The Rajasthan Government came under attack in the Assembly today over the missing wild tigers of the State's celebrated Project Tiger sanctuaries at Ranthambhore and Sariska. The Stat ...More
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7 booked for hunting wild boar |
Staff Reporter |
The Tribune , Friday, February 11, 2005 |
Kharar, February 10
Forest officers here today booked Shingara Singh, a resident of Bagindi village for allegedly hunting down a wild boar in the village this evening. Shingara Singh, along with six ...More
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Environment group disputes Kaziranga ‘centenary’ |
Staff Reporter |
The Assam Tribune , Wednesday, February 09, 2005 |
GUWAHATI, Feb 8– The State Government and its Forest Department has come under criticism from Nature’s Beckon, “an environment activist group,” which has alleged that the Department has been “misleadi ...More
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And then there were none |
Prerna Singh Bindra |
The Pioneer , Tuesday, February 08, 2005 |
In May 2004, the official Census decreed that 16 tigers roamed in Sariska Tiger Reserve. There was no reason to disbelieve this, a friend who visited witnessed a tiger treeing a leopard, and another c ...More
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Poachers poison migratory birds |
Staff Reporter |
Deccan Chronicle , Monday, February 07, 2005 |
Bhubaneswar, Feb. 6: Migratory birds have started flocking to Bhitarkanika National Park in coastal Orissa over the past one week and so have the poachers. Migratory birds come to Bhitarkanika every y ...More
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Census of wildlife outside protected areas soon |
Staff Reporter |
The Hindu , Friday, February 04, 2005 |
MADURAI, FEB. 3. The Forest Department will soon begin a census of the wildlife outside sanctuaries and national parks to create a database on the variety of animals in the State.
Though the idea is ...More
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