State of the Rhino 2023
Apart from poaching and habitat loss, climate change-induced droughts have been threatening the rhino population in Africa, pointed out a new report. On the other hand, climate disruptions in Asia can
Apart from poaching and habitat loss, climate change-induced droughts have been threatening the rhino population in Africa, pointed out a new report. On the other hand, climate disruptions in Asia can
The Elephant Task Force
Dec. 2: Poaching endangered species is going on unabated across the district. Poachers have been killing deer and peacocks for their skins and venison along the AP-Karnataka border and several places in the district.
Jaipur: A high alert has been sounded at the Ranthambore national park by the forest department after threats of possible poaching. Forest guards, police and ecodevelopment groups have all been alerted to maintain a strict vigil in and around the park. Interestingly, the threats from poachers come at a time when the park does not have an officiating DFO. The former DFO of the reserv
Forest department deploys teams of guards at vulnerable places in the national park to conduct patrolling after an activist shoots off letter DNA Correspondent Fearing poaching of tigers, the state forest department has sounded a high alert in and around the Ranthambhore National Park. According to sources, forest guards have been especially deployed at vulnerable places and teams have been c
<p>Every November angling enthusiasts journey to three fishing camps on the banks of the Cauvery river near the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary in Karnataka. The trip for them is an annual pilgrimage. The anglers come to pit their wits against India's mighty fish, the mahseer. This tiger fish is angled on a ‘catch-and-release' basis.
Much of human-carnivore conflict is supposed to be either accidental or caused by old/injured animals, but how do we explain deliberate attacks on people by healthy, mature carnivores?
Even as 13 countries agreed to double the number of tigers by 2022, in the recent World Tiger Summit in Russia, the spate of tiger mortalities continues in the country. While one injured tigress from Corbett died on Sunday, another was recently found dead near Tadoba reserve in Chandipur in Maharashtra.
Nov. 28: The AP forest department has decided to set up
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Tuesday agreed with other Asian nations to try to double the world's wild tiger population by 2022 and save it from extinction. Just 3,200 tigers now live in the wild, down from 100,000 a century ago, and those that remain face a losing battle with poachers who supply traders in India and China with tiger parts for traditio
Leonardo DiCaprio on Tuesday donated $1 million toward efforts to save tigers from extinction as he arrived in Moscow to take part in an international "tiger summit." The star of movies "Titanic" and "Inception" made the $1 million commitment to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), with whom he has been working this year on the Save Tigers Now campaign. DiCaprio, 36, is a committed environmentalis