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Why cities need wildlife nature |
Pia Sethi |
The Hindustan Times , Monday, September 14, 2015 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
IANS |
The New Indian Express , Tuesday, September 08, 2015 |
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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Held for bid to sell leopard pelt |
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The Hindu , Tuesday, September 08, 2015 |
Four persons, including two from Tamil Nadu, were arrested by Forest officials at Shanghumugham on Monday for attempting to sell leopard pelt. The pelt and two vehicles used by the accused were confis ...More
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Now, an app to monitor wildlife in Mudumalai |
V.S. PALANIAPPAN |
The Hindu , Sunday, September 06, 2015 |
Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) will soon start using a smartphone app to ensure effective wildlife management and share data in real time.
Talking to The Hindu , the field director of MTR, Srinivas R. ...More
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De-horned rhino carcass found |
Naresh Mitra |
The Times of India , Sunday, September 06, 2015 |
GUWAHATI: A de-horned rhino carcass was found by officials of Kaziranga National Park as floodwaters began receding from the Unesco World Heritage site on Friday. It was found outside the park boundar ...More
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Pacific summit to issue climate message to world |
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The Economic Times , Sunday, September 06, 2015 |
PORT MORESBY: Vulnerable Pacific island nations will this week send the world an urgent plea for action onclimate change at crunch talks in Paris later this year.
Some Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) cou ...More
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Wanted: Permanent flood solution |
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The Telegraph , Saturday, September 05, 2015 |
Sept. 4: A carcass of a rhino, with its horn missing, was recovered from Baghmari chaporinear Bagori range of Kaziranga National Park this morning while the flood scenario continued to remain critical ...More
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Fertilizers bring down numbers of blackbuck fawns |
S. BHUVANESHWARI |
The Hindu , Saturday, September 05, 2015 |
Survey at the Jayamangali Blackbuck Conservation Reserve has thrown up some interesting facts
chemicals and fertilizers used in the production of seeds as well as a burgeoning stray dog population ne ...More
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Forest department exhumes body of injured flamingo |
Imran Fazal |
DNA India , Friday, September 04, 2015 |
On Thursday afternoon, forest officials exhumed the buried carcass of an injured flamingo for post-mortem. The department suspects that the bird that had injured wings may have died when pictures were ...More
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Maharashtra: Tiger cub missing from Wardha sanctuary |
Pradip Kumar Maitra |
The Hindustan Times , Friday, September 04, 2015 |
A tiger cub, said to be around a year old, has been missing from the Bor sanctuary in Wardha for a month. The wildlife wing has now launched a search operation.
Sources said the cub was one of thre ...More
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Fed poison by poachers, vulture numbers fall |
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The Times of India , Friday, August 28, 2015 |
KENYA: Death feeds life on the Mara. Each summer, 5,00,000 wild beasts die along the treacherous migration from the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania to the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. And ...More
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New wildlife species found in Trichy forest division |
Harish Murali |
The Times of India , Tuesday, August 25, 2015 |
TRICHY: The forest department has found seven additional species in the Trichy forest division during its annual wildlife census, taking the total number of wildlife species in the division to 12.
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Wild boar poaching: 3 held |
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The Hindu , Tuesday, August 25, 2015 |
A special team of forest officials have arrested three persons on the charge of poaching wild boar from the Kongamaruthinmoodu settlement in Kallar, Vithura. Those arrested have been identified as Man ...More
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How snake charmers led dentist to wildlife conservation |
Seema Sharma |
The Times of India , Monday, August 24, 2015 |
Dehradun: Abhishek Singh, dentist-turned-wildlife activist, was the one who first brought to the notice of forest officials the king cobra nest in the Mussoorie forest division. Singh now has a networ ...More
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