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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Tourism in protected areas: Worsening prospects for Tigers?
Against the backdrop of the increasing popularity of ecotourism and the dramatic loss of tigers due to lack of funding, mismanagement, population and development pressures as well as poaching, this article finds that the present policies benefit neither conservation nor local communities.
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Skewed solutions
The long awaited wildlife board meeting chalks out a strategy but grey areas remain
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Cut it out
A critique of recent suggestions to hack tusks, horns and other poachers' delights to save endangered animals.
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Mistaking guns for trees
The Tamil Nadu Green Movement wants the state government to use armed guards to protect a rain forest. Will they never learn?
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WATER: Fading glories
Kashmir’s dying lakes are choking their dependants <br>
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Gorillas dying out
the population of gorillas has declined alarmingly in the war-ravaged eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Several years ago there were 258 gorillas in the highlands of the
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Blair criticised
britain's Labour government has denied accusations that it is going soft on measures to ban fox-hunting and said it would make a statement soon. The Daily Mail reported that the
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TOURISM & HANDICRAFTS: Backs to the wall
Militancy s most distressing casualties
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Policing the forests
The Supreme Court decision to direct state governments to arm forest guards draws flak
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Simian alert!
The orangutan is threatened by poaching and habitat destruction