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More STPF needed for tiger reserves
Against a total of 47 tiger reserves at present including 13 sensitive tiger reserves, Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF) has been raised, armed and deployed only in four tiger reserves. These include
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China imposes ivory import ban to evaluate its effects over 1 year
China will impose a one-year ban on the importation of carved ivory items acquired after July 1, 1975. The ban, which took effect on Thursday, was announced by the State Forestry Administration, China's
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Drying out of vast inland lakes may have caused Australia's megafauna extinction
New research suggests loss of giant wombats and other species about 50,000 years ago could have been caused by changing climate, rather than hunting as previously thought The extinction of Australia’s
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World's first all-female patrol protecting South Africa's rhinos
Unarmed Black Mambas recruited from local communities are guarding nature reserve inside the Greater Kruger national park The battle against the poaching that kills a rhino every seven hours in South
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Hunting of protected birds, animals ‘on rise’
Hom Bahadur Thapamagar, 24, of Machapuchhre-8 in the district was held around a week ago with two Kalij pheasants and two common hill-partridges at the Annapurna Conservation Area Project check-post in
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Three countries discuss Kanchanjunga project
Government officials from Nepal, India and Bhutan have agreed to develop a regional cooperation framework for conservation and development of Kanchanjunga Landscape, an area that spreads across parts of
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Question raised in Rajya Sabha on latest study report on tiger population, 26/02/2015
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on latest study report on tiger population, 26/02/2015.
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India's tiger census method flawed, says Oxford study
Reigniting the debate over India's tiger census, which has shown a 30% rise in the big cat's population in four years, a British-Indian team of scientists has said the exercise mostly likely suffers from
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Kenya: Inside China Where Smuggled Ivory Meets Second Death
A new report has traced the Chinese markets where raw tusks from elephants killed in Africa are turned into statues and other traditional carvings. China maintains a legal ivory market, but this is
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Poachers Now Targeting Baby Rhinos
With rhino populations dwindling due to illegal hunting for their horns, poachers have now begun targeting vulnerable baby rhinos instead. In 2014, a record 1,215 rhinos died from poaching - a 21 percent