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
Poaching
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Accelerated human population growth at protected area edges
Protected areas (PAs) have long been criticized as creations of and for an elite few, where associated costs, but few benefits, are borne by marginalized rural communities.
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Anthropogenic threats and biodiversity conservation in Similipal Biosphere Reserve, Orissa, India
To conserve the representative ecosystems, a Biosphere Reserve program is being implemented. Ten biodiversity rich areas of the country have been designated as Biosphere Reserves applying the UNESCO/MAB criteria.
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Lessons from two local extinctions: Sariska and Kailadevi (Ranthambhore) in Rajasthan, India
The local extinction of the tiger (Panthera tigris) from the Sariska National Park (NP) in India triggered a series of reactions, actions and policy prescriptions. The Tiger Task Force of the Government of India considered this to be a failure of the state machinery in controlling poaching.
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Three peacock poachers nabbed
They confessed that they hunted the birds to extract some oil Thoothukudi Forest Department officials on Sunday arrested three poachers on charges of hunting peacocks and recovered eight slain birds at Vilathikulam in Thoothukudi district. Acting on a tip-off that peacocks were hunted in areas of Inasurai, Koothalurai, Kammapatti, Chennamarettypatti and Pillaiyarnatham, the District Forest Officer, Nathan, constituted a patrolling team. The team raided places in Koothalurai, Kammapatti, Chennamarettypatti and Pillaiyarnatham on Saturday night.
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Poacher held in Cholistan
: The wildlife department claimed on Wednesday to have arrested an illegal hunter from Cholistan desert range. Bahawalpur Wildlife Deputy Director Mian Muhammed Naseem told Dawn that officials of the department raided a place near Dakwala Toba, some 20 kilometres away from Fort Abbas, and arrested Fayyaz Mahar with three slaughtered deer and 25 partridges while his two accomplices fled. Fayyaz's motorcycle was confiscated and he was sent to jail on the directives of a magistrate.
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Ranthambore tigers for Sariska
YOJNA GUSAI Sariska is soon going to get back its glory, which in monetary terms has cost the country's exchequer more than Rs 1.5 crore. After losing all the tigers to poachers in 2004, this tiger reserve in Rajasthan will have tigers from the Ranthambore tiger reserve by the end of June. This is for the first time in the world that tiger species is being relocated, therefore tiger conservationists from all over the globe are praying for its success.
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A tiger in your bank-II
Responding to the crisis, Ajjinanda Poovaiah, an activist of the NGO, Wildlife first, filed a well-researched complaint before the Karnataka Lokayukta (state ombudsman) in February 2003, alleging official corruption and mismanagement under the project.
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Another rhino killed at KNP
DERGAON
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Politics' behind rhino poaching
Hinting that there could be a