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 …
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 …
A meeting between forest personnel and farmers was held on Wednesday at Kalakkad – Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve’s Kalakkad Division to find a solution for intrusion of elephants into agricultural fields. Since the elephants are known to exhibit high fidelity to their home ranges and the migrating routes that they use …
BILASPUR: Surguja, Korba and Raigarh districts of Chhattisgarh are facing wild elephant menace these days. While a farmer was seriously injured in an attack by a wild elephant during the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday, two large rampaging herds of wild elephants have destroyed a house and paddy crop …
With as many as 393 elephants having been killed in Orissa in the last five years, the state seems seems to have become a graveyard for the animals. According to sources in the state government, most of the elephants died because of poaching, electrocution, train accidents or other human-related activities. …
Surveys by TRAFFIC have found a huge fall in the amount of ivory openly for sale in Thailand’s Bangkok markets over the past two years from a high of 7,421 ivory items in 2014 to just 283 products by June this year – a 96 per cent drop. In Transition: …
Johannesburg: The number of elephants in Africa has dropped by 111,000 in 10 years to just 415,000 today. The 20 per cent drop between 2006 and 2015 is because of a surge in ivory poaching, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said in a report. Swiss-based IUCN is …
Africa's elephant population has suffered its worst drop in 25 years, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said on Sunday, blaming the plummeting numbers on poaching. Based on 275 estimates from across the continent, a report by the conservation group put Africa's total elephant population at around 415,000, …
African elephant population has contracted by around 111,000 in the past decade as a result of poaching, study finds The number of African elephants dropped by about 111,000 in the past decade as a result of poaching, a report released at the Johannesburg conference on the wildlife trade has found. …
Responses to illegal wildlife trade need to be more nuanced and not only focused on high-profile species if we are to truly tackle the problem, say researchers. Across the globe, the illegal wildlife trade threatens thousands of species, including fish, fungi and plants, along with the more familiar 'charismatic' animals …
