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Wildlife smuggling continues in frontier areas |
Nihi Sharma |
The Hindustan Times , Sunday, October 01, 2017 |
DEHRADUN: The Pithoragarh case in which three leopard skins were smuggled from Nepal highlights the flourishing illegal cross-border wildlife trade despite the presence of central armed police forces ...More
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Poachers Target Africa’s Lions, Vultures With Poison |
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The Delhi Times , Thursday, September 28, 2017 |
Hundreds of vultures in Namibia died after feeding on an elephant carcass that poachers had poisoned. Poachers in Zimbabwe used cyanide to kill dozens of elephants for their ivory tusks. In Mozambique ...More
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Hoolock Gibbon baby born in rehab centre |
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The Assam Tribune , Monday, September 25, 2017 |
TURA, Sept 24 - The Hoolock Gibbon population in Garo Hills region got a boost last week with the birth of a male baby of the highly endangered species at HURO programme rehabilitation centre in Silso ...More
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Snow leopard now no longer endangered |
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The Economic Times , Tuesday, September 19, 2017 |
The snow leopard is no longer an endangered species, but its population in the wild is still at risk because of poaching and habitat loss, conservationists said this week. The International Union for ...More
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Poaching pushes waterfowl species to brink of extinction |
Vishal Gulati |
The Weekend Leader , Friday, September 15, 2017 |
Crossing national and international boundaries, millions of migratory birds descend on India to avoid the extreme winter chill in their native habitats. Many of them never return to their breeding gro ...More
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Over 12,000 turtles trawled to death every year |
Sulogna Mehta |
The Times of India , Thursday, September 14, 2017 |
HYDERABAD: Over 12,000 sea turtles die between September and November every year along the length of the country's eastern coast because of getting caught in fishing nets. The three months are when th ...More
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Big cat count rises to six in Palamau Tiger Reserve |
SanjoyDey |
The Hindustan Times , Thursday, September 14, 2017 |
Here is a good news for the wildlife lovers. Tiger count in Palamau Tiger Reserve (PTR) has shot up to six, forest officials said on Tuesday.
“The Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun through ...More
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Endangered species of mouse deer released into wild |
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Telangana Today , Wednesday, September 13, 2017 |
Hyderabad: For the first time in the State, animal conservationists and forest department officials have re-introduced the endangered species of mouse deer into the wild. On Tuesday, forest officials ...More
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Amrabad reserve gets mouse deer |
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DECCAN CHRONICLE , Wednesday, September 13, 2017 |
Hyderabad: Officials of the Telangana Forest Department on Tuesday relocated mouse deer bred at the Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad to enclosures at the Amrabad Tiger Reserve, near Mannanur, in Mah ...More
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Mouse deer reintroduced into Amrabad forest |
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The Hindu , Wednesday, September 13, 2017 |
These animals are nocturnal species
In a novel and unique initiative attempted anywhere in the country, the TS Forest Department on Tuesday re-introduced the ‘mouse deer’ into the forests of Nallamal ...More
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Snow Leopard to be removed from ‘endangered’ list |
MalavikaVyawahare |
The Hindustan Times , Wednesday, September 06, 2017 |
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) will remove the Snow Leopard from its list of endangered species, the widely cited Red List. An updated version of the Red List, that is consi ...More
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