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Tiger Hide Seized, Five Arrested |
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The New Indian Express , Thursday, March 26, 2015 |
BALASORE :With the seizure of a Royal Bengal Tiger hide by the forest personnel in Thakurmunda area of Mayurbhanj district on Wednesday, poaching in Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) has come to the fore ...More
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Sariska success focus of talk at Mysuru zoo |
SHANKAR BENNUR |
The Hindu , Wednesday, March 25, 2015 |
Tiger population increasing following conservation efforts
Tiger population at the Sariska Tiger Reserve (STR) in Rajasthan, which hit the national headlines a decade ago for wrong reasons after the ...More
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African jumbos may be extinct in 20 years |
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The Economic Times , Wednesday, March 25, 2015 |
KASANE (BOTSWANA): African elephants could be extinct in the wild within a few decades,experts warned on Monday at a major conservation summit in Botswana that highlighted an alarming decline in numbe ...More
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SUNDERBANS’ EX-POACHERS NOW HELP SAVE ITS WILDLIFE |
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Mumbai Mirror , Wednesday, March 25, 2015 |
Anil Mistry, 48, who lives on Bali island in the Sunderbans, was a poacher. For 15 years now, he has been helping save the animals he once killed. He is one of the many poachers who have turned conser ...More
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'Sarsika model vital for tiger conservation' |
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Deccan Herald , Wednesday, March 25, 2015 |
Inspector General of Forests, National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), P S Somasekhar said, Sariska, which lost face due to disappearance of tigers, as a result of poaching, helped save other tig ...More
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Legislators demand fresh elephant census in Meghalaya |
Press Trust of India |
Business Standard , Friday, March 20, 2015 |
Opposition parties in Meghalaya today sought a fresh censusbe conducted to determine the number of wild elephants in view of the alleged increase in poaching and electrocution of the pachyderm in the ...More
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Return of the rhino to Manas National Park |
Geetanjali Krishna |
Business Standard , Friday, March 20, 2015 |
Once upon a time in the Northeast, there was a vast forest next to a river. Its grasslands were home to the one-hornedrhinoceros and the pygmy hog, while giant hornbills nested on its treetops. Till t ...More
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Govt plans to use drones to keep track of tigers |
Mayank Aggarwal |
Live Mint , Thursday, March 19, 2015 |
New Delhi: Encouraged by the success of a pilot project in the Panna tiger reserve last year, the union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) on Wednesday announced plans to use drones for el ...More
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30 per cent rise in tiger population in the last four years |
Press Trust of India |
The Indian Express , Wednesday, March 18, 2015 |
There has been a 30 per cent rise in the population of tigers in the country and their current count stands at 2,226, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar informed the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.
He also ...More
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Human-animal conflict touches jumbo figures |
TNN |
The Times of India , Wednesday, March 18, 2015 |
BHUBANESWAR: It's raging war between humans and jumbos! While 685 elephants died in past 11 years, mainly because of humans, the animals killed 660 people and injured 272 during the same period.
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Kuttu had killed 5, not 3, tigers from region |
TNN |
The Times of India , Wednesday, March 18, 2015 |
NAGPUR: Investigators probing the poaching case have learnt notorious poacher Rahul Gulabsingh Gondthakur (Kuttu) alias Kuttu Chhiyalal Pardhi killed five tigers and not three as previously believed. ...More
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Centre’s move to stop rhino poaching in KNP |
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The Assam Tribune , Wednesday, March 18, 2015 |
NEW DELHI, March 17 – Admitting that rhino poaching in the Kaziranga National Park is a big problem, Union Environment and Forest Minister Prakash Javadekar said the government has taken a slew of pro ...More
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30% rise in India's tiger population |
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The Hindustan Times , Wednesday, March 18, 2015 |
There has been a 30% rise in the population of tigers in the country and their current count stands at 2,226, the Lok Sabha was informed.
Environment minister Prakash Javadekar informed the House tha ...More
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Men, Jumbos in War Zone for Survival |
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The New Indian Express , Wednesday, March 18, 2015 |
BHUBANESWAR: In a stark pointer to rising man-animal conflict in the State, 685 wild elephants have lost their lives while nearly an equal number of 660 humans killed in jumbo attacks in the last 10 y ...More
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ASSAM’S PRIDE AT STAKE |
Naresh Mitra |
The Times of India , Tuesday, March 17, 2015 |
Guwahati: The temple of Assam's pride — Kaziranga National Park — is fast losing its sanctity with poachers killing its famed one-horn rhinos with sophisticated weapons almost every other day.
The ...More
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