Order of the High Court of Kerala in the matter of Sangita Iyer Vs Guruvayur Devasom & Others dated 17/02/2025. The Kerala High Court directed the Deputy Administrator (Livestock) of Guruvayoor Devaswom to file a detailed affidavit explaining the procedures being followed in Guruvayur Devaswom for booking and transporting elephants …
Juba — South Sudan has signed the Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI), CEO of Stop Ivory John Stephenson said on Monday. The world's youngest nation is the 15th African elephant range State to join the initiative. "By signing the EPI, South Sudan has shown tremendous commitment and goodwill towards protecting and …
Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) office has helped the government to earn over 165bn/- through successful prosecution of 158 government trophy related cases. According to a report on poaching cases released last week, 169 offenders, Tanzanians and foreigners, were convicted of several offences of illegal possession of elephant tusks, giraffe …
• Illegal ivory that is less than 70 years old is being sold in the UK, after it is stained with tea to make it look older and bypass legislation. • Evidence suggests ivory which has been poached from elephants after the 1947 legal cut off date is being sold …
• RAYONG -- A herd of wild elephants from Khao Chamao mountain raided a plantation in Khao Chamao district on Monday night, rooting up pineapples and tearing down rubber trees. • Wanpen Kwannet, 40, a villager of Moo 2 village in tambon Khao Noy, said she was woken up late …
Thousands of heavily-armed herders are invading conservancies, private properties and smallholdings in Laikipia, one of Kenya’s most important wildlife areas, as they search for pasture for their cattle. Over the past couple of weeks, about 10,000 nomadic herders, armed with automatic rifles and driving 135,000 cattle, have left a trail …
Forest personnel coming up with new plans to find solution The Forest Department has been trying hard to check man-animal conflict in its area, yet, 27 people have lost their lives in the last three years in Kodagu. Wild elephants have been creating havoc in the villages bordering the forests, …
Zimbabwean First Lady Grace Mugabe has reportedly been embroiled in yet another controversy after it emerged that she allegedly used the country's animals to settle a Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) debt. According to The Times, Grace sent a "menagerie of safari animals to a Chinese wildlife park to pay …
In a major success to the wildlife preservation bid, a large area which was part of the prime habitat of Manas National Park was freed from 20 years of encroachment in a day long operation on Thursday. It took 800 people including 350 police and paramilitary personnel and a convoy …
Hong Kong government’s three-step plan to ban ivory trade by 2021 received go-ahead from the Chief Executive in Council, and the legislature amendments will be tabled before the Legislative Council in the first half of 2017. Hong Kong to ban ivory trade by 2021 The government’s three-step plan aims to …
The Kabobo Natural Reserve, together with the adjoining Ngandja and Luama Katanga Reserves, protects nearly 7,000 square kilometers of important habitat for biodiversity, watersheds and forests near Lake Tanganyika. The Wildlife Conservation Society said that the involvement of local communities has been critical to protecting the area, and that their …
According to India’s Fifth National Report submitted to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 2014, out of the 34 global biodiversity hotspots, four are present in India which are: (i) Himalaya: (Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, and hill regions of …
According to India’s Fifth National Report submitted to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 2014, out of the 34 global biodiversity hotspots, four are present in India which are: (i) Himalaya: (Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, and hill regions of …
PALAKKAD: The former director of Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI) and an expert on wild elephants Dr P S Easa said that the forest department has taken up a project worth Rs 100 crore to protect elephant corridors to prevent elephantsfrom entering into agriculture areas and human habitant. The project …
The Asian elephant plays a crucial role in its forest ecosystem. Commonly referred to as a ‘keystone’ species, it helps to open up forest clearings and distributes the seeds of trees and shrubs. The magnificent animal becomes threatened due to poaching, destruction of forest and conflict with human. In recent …
Despite the 1989 ivory trade ban, elephants continue to be killed to harvest their tusks for ivory. Since 2008, this poaching has increased to unprecedented levels driven by consumer demand for ivory products. CITES is now considering the development of a legal ivory trade. The proposal relies on three assumptions: …
Recent surveys suggest tens of thousands of elephants are being poached annually across Africa, putting the two species at risk across much of their range. Although the financial motivations for ivory poaching are clear, the economic benefits of elephant conservation are poorly understood. We use Bayesian statistical modelling of tourist …
COIMBATORE: The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) along with the Coimbatore forest department has installed 48 camera traps in Kallar and Walayar regions to study the movement pattern of elephants. The traps also help enumerate the population of male elephants and thereby take steps to improve their numbers. An individual photo …
The number of wild animals living on Earth is set to fall by two-thirds by 2020, according to a new report, part of a mass extinction that is destroying the natural world upon which humanity depends. The analysis, the most comprehensive to date, indicates that animal populations plummeted by 58% …
Alleged Queen of Ivory, Yang Feng Clan is the sole buyer of elephant tusks collected from different poachers in the county, the prosecution has claimed. The claims against the 66- year old Chinese, charged with leading organised crime and unlawful dealing in 5.4bn/- government trophies, were made at the Kisutu …
Accurate counts of animals are critical for prioritizing conservation efforts. Past research, however, suggests that observers on aerial surveys may fail to detect all individuals of the target species present in the survey area. Such errors could bias population estimates low and confound trend estimation. We used two approaches to …
