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| On the trail of otters in Goa |
| Ananda Banerjee |
| Live Mint , Friday, September 25, 2015 |
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After a seven-month wait, wildlife biologist Atul Sinai Borker saw it. As dusk melted into darkness, the Valvanti river mirrored the monsoon skyline and coconut groves of Goa. Then an otter swam out ...More
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| US offers technology to track and protect Indian tigers |
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| The Economic Times , Wednesday, September 23, 2015 |
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WASHINGTON: US has offered to help India in the country's efforts to track and protect Bengal tigers, as the two countries seek to strengthen collaboration in wildlife conservation and combating wildl ...More
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| Rail lines becoming a death trap for wild animals |
| VIJAYKUMAR PATIL |
| The Hindu , Monday, September 21, 2015 |
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Five accidents on Dharwad-Alnavar-Londa-Khanapur-Belgaum line in five years
An elephant calf died on September 10 after it was hit by a train near Nagargali in Khanapur taluk. Six days earlier, anoth ...More
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| Google tech helps save elephants in Africa |
| Peter MARTELL |
| The Asian Age , Monday, September 21, 2015 |
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As elephant poaching in Africa by organised crime gangs using high-tech equipment rises, those working to stop their extinction in the wild have turned to technology too.
In the remote wilds of north ...More
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| TIGERS LOSE 41% TURF IN INDIA, WORLD’S MAXIMUM |
| MOUSHUMI BASU |
| THE PIONEER , Friday, September 18, 2015 |
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India has lost nearly 41 per cent of its tiger habitat. As per the latest report of the International Union of Conservation Network (IUCN), India suffered the most range contraction among the tiger-ra ...More
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| TIGERS LOSE 41% TURF IN INDIA, WORLD’S MAXIMUM |
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| THE PIONEER , Friday, September 18, 2015 |
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India has lost nearly 41 per cent of its tiger habitat. As per the latest report of the International Union of Conservation Network (IUCN), India suffered the most range contraction among the tiger-ra ...More
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| Migratory birds sitting ducks for poachers |
| P Oppili |
| The Economic Times , Wednesday, September 16, 2015 |
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No gun fire, no smoke, not even a swish of the net that is spread well before the unsuspecting victims land in a flock on lakebeds and floating hyacinth. Even before you can spell `poaching', migrator ...More
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| Two elephants poached for tusks |
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| Deccan Herald , Tuesday, September 15, 2015 |
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Hanur (Chamarajanagar district): Sep 15, 2015, DHNS:
Poachers have shot dead two elephants in the Male Mahadeshwara Wildlife Sanctuary near here for their tusks.
The incident came to light on Mon ...More
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| Scavenger hunt? |
| Marc Santora |
| Deccan Herald , Tuesday, September 15, 2015 |
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Death feeds life on the Mara. Each summer, as many as 5,00,000 wildebeests die along the treacherous migration from the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania to the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. ...More
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| Tiger skin trader Chacha will not get back 50 lakh |
| Vijay Pinjarkar |
| The Times of India , Tuesday, September 15, 2015 |
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Nagpur: International tiger skin and body parts trader Suraj Pal alias Chacha on Monday failed to get back the 50 lakh seized from his New Delhi residence during a raid on September 8, 2013.
Even as ...More
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| Why cities need wildlife nature |
| Pia Sethi |
| The Hindustan Times , Monday, September 14, 2015 |
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Framed in the lens of my binoculars is a tiny bird clinging to the reeds. For a moment, my entire attention is captured by the vivid flashes of yellow and white as the bird flits between the grasses ...More
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| One horn ahead |
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| Business Line , Saturday, September 12, 2015 |
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Located 48km from Guwahati, Pobitora is a wildlife sanctuary with an impressive track record against poaching
Success stories are few and far between when it comes to conservation in India. But Pob ...More
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| Poor governance leading to rhino poaching |
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| The Assam Tribune , Friday, September 11, 2015 |
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GUWAHATI, Sept 10 - Like other crimes, rampant rhino poaching in the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) is also a product of poor governance and weak institutional structures, observed the Rhino Task Force ...More
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| The ‘extrapolation’ of Leopards |
| Ananda Banerjee |
| Live Mint , Wednesday, September 09, 2015 |
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New Delhi: Finally an attempt has been made to estimate the country’s leopard population by the government’s Wildlife Institute of India (WII). We are given to believe that there are anywhere between ...More
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| In a first, state & WII to conduct wolves' count |
| Vijay Pinjarkar |
| The Times of India , Wednesday, September 09, 2015 |
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Nagpur: For the first time in Maharashtra, an estimation of wolves will be conducted jointly by Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun, and the state forest department. The state government last ...More
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| South African Anti-poaching Group Wins UN Award |
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| The New Indian Express , Tuesday, September 08, 2015 |
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CAPE TOWN: A South African anti-poaching group has won a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) top prize, Champions of the Earth, for its efforts to protect the endangered rhinos.
Black Mambas, ...More
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