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Rhino poached in Jaldapara, seventh in a year |
Krishnendu Mukherjee |
The Times of India , Sunday, July 05, 2015 |
JALPAIGURI: Foresters at Jaldapara national park on Saturday morning recovered a carcass of an adult male rhino from the Bania beat in Chilapata range. The body of the rhino had its horn missing. This ...More
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Poachers may have killed 4 tigers in Kerala this year |
IGNATIUS PEREIRA |
The Hindu , Sunday, July 05, 2015 |
Countrywide, 34 wild tigers died in the last six months
Poachers are suspected to have killed four wild tigers in Kerala’s Periyar Tiger Reserve in just the last six months, according to the National ...More
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Kaziranga rhinos to be well-guarded from poachers |
PTI |
The Hindu , Sunday, July 05, 2015 |
Jorba, the lone sniffer dog deployed in Assam’s Kaziranga National Park to combat rhino poachers, will now have company.
The park authorities have decided to have two more sniffer dogs — Kareena and ...More
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Lupita Nyong'o leads fight against elephant poaching |
Wildlife |
India Today , Wednesday, July 01, 2015 |
Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o has become a global elephant ambassador for international conservation organisation WildAid.
The Oscar-winning actress has returned to Kenya to become a global el ...More
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Survey to trace Indian pangolin in 9 districts of TN |
M T Saju |
The Times of India , Wednesday, July 01, 2015 |
CHENNAI: Indian pangolins are listed as endangered as they are subject to poaching and hunting mainly for their meat and scales. To save this nocturnal mammal, a team of wildlife scientists is plannin ...More
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Lupita Nyong'o on mission to save elephants |
Press Trust of India |
Business Standard , Wednesday, July 01, 2015 |
Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o has returned to her native Kenya to lead a new campaign aimed at halting the ongoing slaughter of elephants for their ivory tusks.
The "12 Years a Slave" star ...More
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Forest dept, NGOs join hands for IUCN tiger project |
Vijay Pinjarkar |
The Times of India , Wednesday, July 01, 2015 |
NAGPUR: The state forest department and leading NGOs in the region will join hands to prepare a concept plan for tiger corridor conservation under International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUC ...More
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Lupita Nyong’o on mission to save elephants |
PTI |
The Indian Express , Wednesday, July 01, 2015 |
Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o has returned to her native Kenya to lead a new campaign aimed at halting the ongoing slaughter of elephants for their ivory tusks. The “12 Years a Slave” star has ...More
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Sniffer dog to track poachers in Kaziranga |
Naresh Mitra |
The Times of India , Tuesday, June 30, 2015 |
Guwahati: Karina, a German Shepherd specially trained to track poachers, arrived at Kaziranga National Park in the state on Sunday. With poaching in Kaziranga and other rhino habitats in Assam rising, ...More
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Bio-diversity studies need upgradation |
Sudipto Chatterjee |
Deccan Herald , Tuesday, June 30, 2015 |
Biodiversity conservation is not a destination but a journey. While the rationale for this long and enduring journey is clear, often the avenues are not, due to our inadequate knowledge of the interre ...More
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Elephant population rises in Odisha |
IANS |
Business Standard , Monday, June 29, 2015 |
Despite the death of 231 elephants in the past three years in Odisha, their population in the state has increased to 1,954 this year from the 1,930 recorded in the 2012 census.
The 2015 Elephant Cens ...More
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Rhino killed in Assam's Kaziranga park |
IANS |
Business Standard , Monday, June 29, 2015 |
Poachers have killed yet another world famous one-horned rhino in Assam's Kaziranga national park, taking the number to 12 since January this year, officials said on Monday.
Park officials said the g ...More
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Core ingredient: Tea |
Nandita Iyer |
Live Mint , Friday, June 26, 2015 |
“Drink it. After a few moments you will begin to think that the place you’ve come to isn’t maybe quite so strange and crazy after all.”
And that’s how Douglas Adams concludes his hilarious essay on ...More
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Sniffer dogs to protect wildlife zones in 7 tiger states |
Akash Vashishtha |
Mail Today , Friday, June 26, 2015 |
Adding teeth to the anti-poaching regime in country, 14 new sniffer dogs will be deployed in the key wildlife zones of the country.
The new fleet of 14 sniffer dogs will be deputed in seven tiger sta ...More
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Sariska tigresses too stressed out to conceive |
Kartikey Dev Singh |
DNA , Thursday, June 25, 2015 |
In 2005, Sariska Tiger Reserve (Near Alwar) lost all its tigers to poaching. In the years that followed, a massive reintroduction programme was initiated to populate the park with big cats again. Cons ...More
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