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Nicaragua fights to save its endangered tapirs |
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News Nation , Tuesday, September 05, 2017 |
New Delhi: Ancient relatives of horses and rhinoceroses, Tapirs are largest land mammals in Central America have been classified as endangered or vulnerable and thirteen of these pig-like animals wit ...More
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Manas National Park has first rhino calf in three years |
NARESH MITRA |
The Economic Times , Monday, September 04, 2017 |
GUWAHATI: Assam's Manas National Park (MNP) has something to cheer about. Jamuna, the female rhino brought to Manas in 2010, gave birth to her second calf on Sunday, since her first in 2014. "It's a m ...More
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Trouble in avian paradise as the hunt goes on |
Ananda Banerjee |
Live Mint , Saturday, September 02, 2017 |
As we slip into autumn, millions of birds are leaving the northern latitudes and heading south on their annual migration. Waterfowl of various shapes, sizes and colours will spend the winter months in ...More
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Poaching attempt foiled in Kaziranga |
Naresh Mitra |
The Times of India , Friday, September 01, 2017 |
GUWAHATI: A poaching attempt in the flood-hit Kaziranga National Park was foiled after forest guards resorted to firing on Wednesday. A five-member poachers' gang, armed with automatic rifles, entered ...More
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Thailand seizes 136 smuggled live pangolins |
Pangolins, Poaching, Animal Care, Wildlife |
Reuters , Friday, September 01, 2017 |
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai customs have confiscated 136 live pangolins, the world’s most poached animal, and 450 kg (992 lb) of pangolin scales worth 2.5 million baht ($75,000), officials said on Thursd ...More
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Online rhino horn auction set to open in South Africa |
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Deccan Chronicle , Tuesday, August 22, 2017 |
Johannesburg: An online auction of rhino horn is set to open Monday, after a court in South Africa gave the go-ahead for the sale, which has outraged conservationists.
South African authorities had m ...More
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#DNAExclusive: Why Ranthambhore is losing its big cats |
KartikeyTanwar |
DNA India , Monday, August 21, 2017 |
Little over a decade has passed since Sariska Tiger Reserve in Alwar district of Rajasthan lost all its tigers to poaching. The horrific times for wildlife conservation are still etched in the memorie ...More
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2100 pangolin scales, leopard skin seized in Haridwar |
Seema Sharma |
The Times of India , Friday, August 11, 2017 |
Dehradun: A suspected smuggler was caught with a leopard skin, 2,100 pangolin scales and a kg of monitor lizard meat in Haridwar on Thursday in a joint operation by the Rajaji Tiger Reserve and NGO Tr ...More
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12 tiger whiskers seized; 3 more held |
Vijay Pinjarkar |
The Times of India , Thursday, August 10, 2017 |
Nagpur: In yet another development in the Pench poaching racket, 12 tiger whiskers were seized from a fishermen on late Tuesday night while three more persons from Kolitmara in West Pench were arreste ...More
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Govt figures under-reported on tiger deaths |
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Orissa Post , Tuesday, August 08, 2017 |
New Delhi, August 7: There seems to be a significant difference in the figures given by the government and those recorded by some organisations on the number of tiger deaths due to poaching or natural ...More
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Police outdo forest department in cracking wildlife cases |
Nihi Sharma |
The Hindustan Times , Tuesday, August 08, 2017 |
DEHRADUN: The Uttarakhand police’s special task force (STF) is making more crackdowns on poaching activities than the forest department even as both agencies are jointly working to check illegal wildl ...More
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Here come the tigers |
Pritha Lahiri |
Deccan Herald , Tuesday, August 08, 2017 |
While less human lives are lost from tiger attacks now, the big cat population is also not declining in the India’s Sundarbans National Park (SNP), the world’s biggest mangrove forest and genepool, sa ...More
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