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| Attempt to kill rhino foiled, poacher gunned down |
| IANS |
| Business Standard , Thursday, May 14, 2015 |
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Forest guards at Assam's Kaziranga National Park on Wednesday foiled an attempt by poachers to kill a rhino, and gunned down one of the criminals, officials said.
Park officials said three poachers h ...More
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| Eco-tourism brings succour to tribespeople |
| K A SHAJI |
| The Hindu , Wednesday, May 13, 2015 |
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The community-based eco-tourism now being practised at the Parambikulam Tiger Reserve with the active involvement of 234 members of six tribal settlements within the reserve has become a model to emul ...More
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| Enable Big Cats to Thrive, End Extinction Fears |
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| The New Indian Express , Wednesday, May 13, 2015 |
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The latest census of India’s population of the endangered Asiatic Lion shows that their numbers are up 27 per cent from those thrown up by the previous census conducted five years back. In 2000, the A ...More
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| No second home for lions even as numbers grow |
| Mayank Aggarwal |
| Live Mint , Tuesday, May 12, 2015 |
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New Delhi: The substantial increase in the Asiatic Lion’s population in Gujarat may be good news for wildlife lovers but has experts worried about the implications of rising numbers in a limited area. ...More
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| Panther poaching gang busted in Udaipur |
| TNN |
| The Times of India , Tuesday, May 12, 2015 |
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UDAIPUR: Udaipur police has busted an inter-state panther poacher-smuggler gang, accused of killing six panthers in the Kumbalgarh forest over the last three years, with the arrest of the mastermind o ...More
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| Missing leopard poached, believe experts |
| Manka Behl |
| The Times of India , Tuesday, May 12, 2015 |
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NAGPUR: The mystery of the missing leopardess persists, with a male leopard caught in a camera trap eating a cattle kill at Pipal Tola village of Goregaon range. The forest department had high hopes t ...More
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| South Africa rhino poaching at new record levels |
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| Business Standard , Monday, May 11, 2015 |
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South Africa today said that more rhinos were poached in the first four months of 2015 than in the same period last year as the scourge continues to hit record levels.
"By the end of April 2015 th ...More
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| Karnataka to get its second sloth bear sanctuary |
| S. BHUVANESHWARI |
| The Hindu , Sunday, May 10, 2015 |
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It will be spread across 100 sq. km in Madhugiri taluk of Tumakuru district.
Karnataka’s second sloth bear sanctuary, and perhaps its largest, is on the final stages of being established in Tumakuru ...More
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| Himachal to get wildlife crime control wing |
| IANS |
| Business Standard , Saturday, May 09, 2015 |
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Himachal Pradesh will to set up a wildlife crime control unit, besides installing trap cameras in Great Himalayan National Park, the country's richest biodiversity spot in the western Himalayas, to ke ...More
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| Dead dolphins on Mumbai’s beaches worry activists |
| AISHWARYA RAVIKUMAR |
| The Hindu , Saturday, May 09, 2015 |
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Water pollutants, radio-active toxins, factory effluents, climate change among many possible factors.
The washing ashore of carcasses of five dolphins, and finless porpoises, both protected species, ...More
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| Experts oppose clause, say will fuel poaching |
| Mayuri Phadnis |
| Pune Mirror , Friday, May 08, 2015 |
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USE OF ANIMALS FOR RITUALS
BNHS and NGOs write to forest ministry, asking for withdrawal of the suggestion, claiming the clause will make way for legal loopholes that will lead to its misuse
W ...More
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| 5 tigresses had 22 miscarriages in Sariska in 7 years |
| Sudhanshu Mishra |
| India Today , Thursday, May 07, 2015 |
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Sariska Tiger Sanctuary (STR) in Rajasthan's Alwar is facing unusually slow multiplication of the big cat population mainly due to large scale miscarriages suffered by its tigresses.
Tiger re-intro ...More
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| Illegal trade in lesser known species 'largely unreported': |
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| Business Standard , Thursday, May 07, 2015 |
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To highlight the rampant illegal trade of lesser known species like pangolins and owls and generate support for their conservation, a campaign was launched on social media which its organisers said ha ...More
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| Environmentalist wins Green Oscar |
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| The Times of India , Wednesday, May 06, 2015 |
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PUNE: City-based ornithologist Pramod Patil has been conferred the prestigious Whitley Award, popularly called the 'Green Oscar', for his work on the conservation of the critically endangered Great In ...More
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| Birds of different feathers flock to Ankasamudra tank |
| M. AHIRAJ |
| The Hindu , Tuesday, May 05, 2015 |
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Birdwatchers, wildlife and nature enthusiasts will be happy to know that the Ankasamudra tank in Hagari Bommanahalli taluk in the district is turning into a natural bird sanctuary. It has not only bec ...More
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