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Live Wires Take heavy Toll on Elephants |
Biranchi Seth |
The New Indian Express , Thursday, November 27, 2014 |
DHENKANAL: The rise in number of elephant deaths under Dhenkanal forest division has left forest officials worried. Seven elephants have died in Dhenkanal so far this year.
On November 21, an adult ...More
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Protecting biodiversity |
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The Hindu , Thursday, November 27, 2014 |
About 3 per cent of India’s land area is deemed as protected area in the form of Project Tiger reserves or as sanctuaries for other flagship species such as the grizzled squirrel, the Nilgiri tahr and ...More
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10 tigers missing from Pilibhit Reserve |
Keshav Agrawal |
The Times of India , Wednesday, November 26, 2014 |
PILIBHIT: More than 10 tigers are missing from Pilibhit Tiger Reserve. According to the tiger census report, in of 2010 the reserve had more than 40 tigers. In 2012, the tiger count was down to 30 and ...More
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India’s wildlife crisis |
T.C.A. Sharad Raghavan |
Live Mint , Wednesday, November 26, 2014 |
India has among the highest proportions of threatened species (threatened species as a percentage of total species) in the world. Each chart features the top 10 countries in terms of the number of s ...More
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Kaziranga fightback yields results |
ROOPAK GOSWAMI |
The Telegraph , Monday, November 24, 2014 |
Guwahati, Nov. 23: Effective anti-poaching strategies by Kaziranga National Park have resulted in the killing of 21 poachers till date this year — the highest in the past five years at least.
Sources ...More
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Lens Eye on Tigers in Satkosia Reserve |
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The New Indian Express , Monday, November 24, 2014 |
ANGUL: Satkosia wildlife sanctuary authorities have installed ultra modern infrared cameras in the tiger reserve in a bid to preserve the tiger population.
At present, 42 cameras are functioning in t ...More
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Where the wild things lack safety! |
S. Harpal Singh |
The Hindu , Monday, November 24, 2014 |
In Adilabad, poachers are immune to laws as they do not serve jail term even after found guilty
“When a man kills a tiger, he calls it a sport. When a tiger kills a man, people call it ferocity. The ...More
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Huge resource gap hits wildlife protection in India |
M. K. Ananth |
The Hindu , Sunday, November 23, 2014 |
Shekhar Kumar Niraj, Head of TRAFFIC (India) – an international wildlife trade monitoring network – observed that there was a huge gap in terms of available resources and requirement in the Forest Dep ...More
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Wildlife meat trading racket busted |
TNN |
The Times of India , Saturday, November 22, 2014 |
CHANDRAPUR: Forest officials of Chimur range busted a major wildlife meat trading racket and nabbed four poachers and seized six kg blue bull meat and two manually loading guns and other equipment use ...More
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Proposal to document Kaziranga Park's biodiversity |
IANS |
Business Standard , Saturday, November 22, 2014 |
The central government has asked scientists in northeast India to map and document the biodiversity in Assam's famous Kaziranga National Park.
According to Narayan Talukdar, Director of Institute of ...More
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Three deer poachers arrested in Virudhunagar |
Devanathan Veerappan |
The Times of India , Saturday, November 22, 2014 |
CHENNAI: Forest personnel arrested three men for poaching deer in Palaikulam forest, near Srivilliputhur, in Virudhunagar district on Friday morning. They seized 30 kgs of meat from them.
The arre ...More
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Poachers kill Kaziranga rhino |
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The Times of India , Friday, November 21, 2014 |
JORHAT : Poachers killed a male rhino at Kaziranga National Park on Thursday. However, the horn of the pachyderm was found intact.
Park officials said poachers targeted the pachyderm near the Laudu ...More
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‘Set up wildlife crime control units in each state’ |
Vijay Pinjarkar |
The Times of India , Tuesday, November 18, 2014 |
Nagpur: Wildlife crime, especially illegal trade of animal parts, has become highly organized with transborder ramifications. To tackle this, the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), a multidisciplin ...More
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Lion conservation gone wrong |
Bahar Dutt |
Live Mint , Tuesday, November 18, 2014 |
The state of Gujarat has much to be proud of in creating a safe haven for the Asiatic lion. But the influx of tourists and the high concentration of animals in one area are creating problems for the ...More
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Uganda hunts for missing ivory worth $1 million |
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The Economic Times , Tuesday, November 18, 2014 |
KAMPALA ( UGANDA): A Ugandan official says local police are investigating the disappearance more than a ton of ivory from a government vault.
Police spokesman Fred Enanga said Monday that detectiv ...More
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