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  • NGO submits proposal for wildlife sanctuary

    The initiative of Nature's Beckon to save the rain forests of Assam and their move to declare the 500 sq km, stretch of rain forests comprising Joypur, Dirak and upper Dihing reserved forsts of

  • Rhino threatened by Assam floods

    Floods triggered by torrential rains in Assam are threatening the world's last major concentration of one-horned rhino - a nearly extinct

  • Animal skins,parts smugglers detained

    A smuggling gang involved in a massive case of smuggling skins or parts of endangered species of wild animals has been uncovered by police and customs officials in Southwest China's Yunnan Province,

  • EC and elephant rights

    Do pachyderms posted in national parks as government employees come under the model code of conduct issued by the Election Commission and be banned from transfers? The Forest Department officials in

  • Trying to save the satoyama

    The birth of the first Japanese crested ibis, or toki, through artificial breeding two months ago has reinforced nationwide efforts to restore and conserve "satoyama," the ecological

  • Dept offers to buy turtle eggs in conservation effort

    The Fisheries Department in Malaysia is offering the public between RM1 and RM2.50 for each turtle egg under its turtle conservation efforts. Its director-general Datuk Mazlan Jusoh said yesterday

  • Another setback for Turtle researchers

    Sea turtle scientists Leslie du Toit and Anny Chaves have suffered yet another legal setback in their long battle to resume work at their research center in the north Pacific Wildlife Refuge of

  • Need for safe breeding grounds....

    Gahirmatha in Orissa, this year, has sprung a major surprise to turtle conservationists. As a result of mass-nesting, 200,000 to 250,000 turtles nested on the two km beach within a span of ten

  • First sun bear born in zoo

    A rare Asian sun bear has been born in a zoo for the first time in what could be a milestone in efforts to save the endangered species, wildlife officials said yesterday. Few had seen the blind,

  • Black bucks may become extinct

    Conservationists : If effective measures are not initiated by the Nepal government for the conservation of black bucks in Bardia's Khairapur area immediately, the country's some 160 remanants of the

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