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Birds poaching rampant in rural areas |
Manka Behl |
The Times of India , Monday, September 28, 2015 |
Nagpur: The common bird monitoring programme, which was jointly organized by Wild-CER and Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), revealed that poaching of different species of birds is rampant in rura ...More
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Gharial ‘poached’ in North Dinajpur river |
Subhro Maitra & Krishnendu Mukherjee |
The Times of India , Monday, September 28, 2015 |
Malda/Kolkata: Wildlife outside the protected area in Bengal is under attack. After the poaching of a few fishing cats in Howrah, a gharial — a critically endangered species — was allegedly killed by ...More
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Jungle patrolling just got easier |
R. KRISHNA KUMAR |
The Hindu , Sunday, September 27, 2015 |
Hejje, an android-based app, enables officials to track animal movements
Effective monitoring of field staff engaged in jungle patrolling of tiger reserves has become easy thanks to the growing popul ...More
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Elephant poaching: one more arrested |
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The Hindu , Sunday, September 27, 2015 |
Officials of the Forest Department appear to have made headway into the elephant poaching case by bringing to book yet another accused.
While a key accused, known to wildlife enforcers as ‘Eagle Raja ...More
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On the trail of otters in Goa |
Ananda Banerjee |
Live Mint , Friday, September 25, 2015 |
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 |
PTI |
The Economic Times , Wednesday, September 23, 2015 |
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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Google tech helps save elephants in Africa |
Peter MARTELL |
The Asian Age , Monday, September 21, 2015 |
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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Rail lines becoming a death trap for wild animals |
VIJAYKUMAR PATIL |
The Hindu , Monday, September 21, 2015 |
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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TIGERS LOSE 41% TURF IN INDIA, WORLD’S MAXIMUM |
MOUSHUMIBASU |
THE PIONEER , Friday, September 18, 2015 |
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 |
MOUSHUMI BASU |
THE PIONEER , Friday, September 18, 2015 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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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