Residents of Maikona in Marsabit county are counting losses after 37 camels died after drinking contaminated water. They told the Star more than 100 camels were affected after drinking water at El-Hadi dam on Monday. Some families that lost their animals said the well has not been in use for …
German scientist and Former Professor of Livestock Ecology in the Institute of Animal Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture, Humboldt University of Berlin Dr H J Schwartz has said that in order to cope with futuristic challenges of reducing global water resources and upcoming drought like situations the preservation of …
Raika community (OBC) in Jodhpur district is commonly known for keeping camels and might have been consuming camel milk in their diet. It is reported in literature that camel milk consumption may be responsible for reduction of the occurrence of Diabetes in the Raika community which is researchable issue. With …
The trains of camels are out here again in Muzaffargarh and this time not to entertain the public with their wrestling skills but to feed malnourished lands with their dung. The ship of dessert has now assumed a new role of mitigating farmers difficulties in the face of skyrocketing prices …
This monsoon, the Raikas, traditional camel breeders in the Kumbalgarh Wild Life Sanctuary in Rajasthan's Pali district, will face an existential crisis again. It will be the third successive season that the pastoral community will have been banned from grazing their camels in Kumbalgarh. Living in the Bali and Desuri …
Though camel slaughter is banned in India, slaughter and export of camel meat is thriving in many districts of Uttar Pradesh. According to unofficial estimates, more than 5,000 to 7,000 camels are transported from Rajasthan to abattoirs in western Uttar Pradesh every month. The meat is then exported to a …
The paper provides an overview on some customs and beliefs of Raika pastoralists related to camel husbandry. Qualitative information was collected from 60 camel owning Raika families from 4 selected villages of Bikaner district of Rajasthan. Camels play a central and identifying role in various rituals, customs, traditions and ceremonial …
In 2001, during the famed Pushkar fair in Rajasthan, Bagdiramji, a leader of the Raika community, summoned us to the Ram Raika Mandir. " Thousands of female camels have been bought for slaughter in Uttar Pradesh and other places. This must be stopped,' he pleaded. The Raika leader's request left …
From December, 17-19, 2004 Lokhit Pashu-Palak Sansthan organised a national level workshop for about fifty camel breeders and owners representing various communities, casts, and religions, and coming from almost all parts of Rajasthan. After intensive discussions, the participants unanimously recommended: • Identifying and restorating traditional grazing areas and commons. Restoration …
Camel experts from research institutions and non-government organisations in India, France, Germany, Kazakhstan, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and the UK met at the training centre of Lokhit Pashu-Palak Sansthan near Mammaji-ki-dhuni at Sadri, District Pali, Rajasthan, India, on 23-25 November 2004, and came up with the following recommendations: • …
On becoming a veterinarian I was born and brought up in Bikaner, which is livestock country. Love for animals came naturally. I grew up watching animals and how people depend on them. My father's a physician, so there was a familiarity with the medical sciences. Bikaner had the only veterinary …
the vicuna, a delicate high-altitude cousin of the llama which inhabits the Peruvian hills of the Andes, is on the comeback trail. Its numbers have now reached 149,000
Theirs is no romantic tale of the desert. Rather the plight of camel herders of Rajasthan today is that of an endless struggle for survival. Time was when Virma Ram proudly watched his herd of camels stretch in an endless line along the dusty horizon. Today, his gaze has turned …
there was a time when the double-humped Yarkandi camel served as a vital means of transport on the 6,400-km historic 'silk route'. Camel caravans carried tea, silk and porcelain of China to the bazaars in the Middle East and as far as the Byzantine empire and Rome. Traders from Central …
omani scientists believe that camels may hold a clue to a treatment for river blindness, a debilitating disease that affects millions of people each year in the developing world. Immunological studies by Oman's Suhan Qaboos University researchers show that the camels have a highly-evolved immune system which allows them to …
the last of the Bactrian camels - between 730 to 880 - living in the sparse deserts of Gashun Gobi and Taklimakan along the Sino-Mongolian border, may soon have a sanctuary for themselves. A hairy creature with bald knees, large feet and two small humps, the Camelus bactrianus ferus is …
PRESENTING Africa's first environment-friendly, fodder-efficient, money-saving, low-fat dairy in the dunes -- Laitiere de Mauritanie, which will pasteurise camel's milk in the country's capital, Nouakchott. Camels are clearly close to the heart of British-born Nancy Abeiderrahmane, whose dairy, set up in 1987, went commercial this year, winning for her the …
