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 …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Endangered species, 14/03/2016. The Botanical Survey of India (BSI) and Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change conduct survey of threatened and important species of the country. As per the data available with BSI, out of 19156 …
Tanzania is working on a new security strategy that will help curb poaching of elephants and other crimes against wildlife within and outside protected areas. The Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism Jumanne Maghembe said the new security strategy will involve training a special force that will be equipped with …
An executive with a Beverly Hills gallery and auction house has pleaded guilty of conspiring to smuggling at least $1 million in animal products that included rhino horn and elephant ivory, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday. Joseph Chait, 38, a senior auction administrator with I.M. Chait Gallery/Auctioneers, could be sentenced …
The Minister of Land, Environment and Rural Development, Celso Correia, announced in Maputo on 3 March that during 2015 the Mozambican authorities detained over 300 people in connection with poaching. He was speaking at commemorations of World Wildlife Day, at a time when the country's wild life is under serious …
It has dwindled despite restriction on the use of diclofenac Even after a curb on the use of Diclofenac, an anti-inflammatory drug acknowledged to have caused the decimation of vultures in the Indian subcontinent, the nests of vultures are dwindling in the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary (WWS), a safe habitat for …
A GLOBAL report has painted a gloomy picture on the future of Zimbabwe's elephant herd, revealing shocking evidence that the number of Jumbos killed by poachers in Chewore alone increased by 12 percent last year. This was a period when authorities increased efforts to stem a ruthless slaughter of elephants …
The number of elephants being killed for their ivory has stabilised but overall species numbers have continued to decline. Data produced for 2015 shows that poachers are still killing more elephants than are born every year. The report also highlighted a rising trend in poaching in South Africa's Kruger National …
Barack Obama has said that urgent action is needed to save elephants from becoming extinct in the wild, adding that failure to do so would be an “unpardonable loss for humanity and the natural world”. The president said that the US has made “unprecedented progress” in protecting wildlife domestically and …
Forest Department moots 3-sq-km natural enclosure for captured predators On most days, before the sun breaks through the thick morning mist, the Forest Department’s four-member team of animal trackers sets out to locate raiding tigers that threaten human settlements inside Wayanad wildlife sanctuary. There are 96 human settlements in the …
As a major commercial hub for the Asia-Pacific region, Hawaii has long been considered one of the United States’ biggest markets for ivory sales – and therefore one of this country’s prime drivers of the elephant poaching crisis. In this groundbreaking study, investigators with IFAW, the Wildlife Conservation Society, Natural …
Demand compensation for crop, cattle loss The residents of Shanthalli staged a protest outside the office of the Forest Department on Monday, demanding a solution to the elephant and tiger menace near the village. People from Garvale, Bettadahalli, Haraga, Shanthalli, Kikkaralli, Mankya, Soorlabbi, Heggadamane, Kundalli, Kumaralli, Mallalli and other villages …
DEHRADUN: National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has recommended Nandhaur Widllife Sanctuary to be the third tiger reserve in the state. This area of 270 sq km has shown images of 21 tigers after it was declared WLS in 2012. It is also part of the Terai Arc lanscpae, the world's …
Coimbatore: Almost 800 farmers gathered in front of the South Taluk office on Saturday afternoon demanding that the government takes steps immediately to protect their lands and crop from being destroyed by animals, high tension power lines and natural disasters. They say that many of them are beginning to lose …
A wild elephant rampaged through West Bengal's Siliguri town on Wednesday, smashing homes and sending frightened residents running. As the panicked elephant ran amok, trampling parked cars and motorbikes, crowds of people gathered to watch from balconies and roof tops. Some followed from a distance as the elephant moved through …
Seven elephants have died in two conservancies around the Maasai Mara Game Reserve in the last one week in unclear circumstances. The elephants were in Naiboisho and Mara North conservancies in Narok West. Tests carried out on the carcasses by the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) have not yet shown anything, …
ZIMBABWE's wildlife is under threat from poachers sponsored by criminal syndicates operating in and outside the country who use cyanide to poison the animals, a senior Government official has said. Officially launching "The Elephant Dress" in support of wildlife on Monday in Harare, Environment, Water and Climate Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri …
Elephant populations in southern Africa's national parks have increased dramatically in recent years. As a result of their booming numbers, vast dietary requirements and expansive ranges, elephants sometimes roam outside the borders of protected areas in search of food. Farmers in communities surrounding national parks rely heavily on subsistence agriculture …
At least 500 elephants may have been killed during South Sudan’s two-year civil war, including 15 slaughtered in one day last month, the African nation’s wildlife service said. The oil-producing country’s elephants, which numbered 5,000 in a 2012 nationwide survey, are still at heavy risk from poaching, said Major-General Philip …
Luanda — The ministers of Hotels and Tourism of Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and the Angolan Secretary of State of the referred sector Alfredo Varo Kaputo, approved on 29 January in Zimbabwe, the Master Plan for the integrated development of Cross-Border Conservation Area Kavango and Zambezi (KAZA ATFC), Angop has …
Workshop on Asian elephants and tigers on at KVASU The significance of conserving Asiatic elephants and tigers were stressed at an international veterinary workshop on Asian elephants and tigers that began at Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU) headquarters at Pookode in the district on Monday. The four-day workshop, …
