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 …
Illegal ivory has halved in value in China according to new research, leading to hopes that the demand which drives poaching in Africa might be on the wane. Kenya-based conservation organisation Save the Elephants said Monday that the price of illegal raw ivory in China had fallen to $1,100 (1,000 …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rohit Choudhury Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 08/12/2015 regarding a golf course site developed by the Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) which falls within the Upper Dihing East Elephant Corridor which is the right of way of animals, Kaziranga …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Number of lions in the country, 07/12/2015. The census of all wild animals is not undertaken in the country. However census of tiger is undertaken at the national level once every four years and census of a few other major flagship species is undertaken …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Elephant Corridor, 01/12/2015. State-wise details of ‘Elephant Reserves’ and ‘Elephant Corridors’ in the country are given in Annexure-I. State-wise details of damages, due to elephant depredation, during last 3 years, are given in Annexure II.
ZIMBABWE lost about 24 000 elephants to poachers over the past 20 years, prejudicing the hard currency starved economy of an estimated US$3 billion in sport hunting fees alone, the Financial Gazette can report. Poachers have become a menace within Zimbabwe's animal sanctuaries where they are running rings around a …
First, 11 elephants were killed in Hwange National Park and 3 in Matusadona National Park. On October 26, the parks authority announced that another 22 had been poisoned and killed in Hwange. A week later, it was reported that cyanide had taken the lives of 26 in the park. And …
The continued existence of large stockpiles of legal raw ivory in the country is hampering China’s promises to save the elephant, says Li Zhang. Original Source
A wild elephant herd trampled a person inside Dhaugaon reserve forest under Surada forest range in Ganjam district of Odisha on Sunday morning. According to forest officials, the victim was identified as Sankar Nayak (56) of Gochhagaon village at a distance of around two kms from the reserve forest. “Although …
Recording preference of elephants for natural water bodies, the study by Wildlife Conservation Society India Program cautions that practices like creating waterholes without research on impacts may be counterproductive for conservation. The research evaluated elephant distribution during dry season in Bandipur and Nagarahole National Parks and adjoining forests in the …
Poaching and the trade in illegal animal goods have been placed in the same category as drug and weapons smuggling by a new law passed in the US. The Global Anti-Poaching Act passed by the US House of Representatives aims to “support global anti-poaching efforts, strengthen the capacity of partner …
Three journalists from a state-owned paper in Zimbabwe have been arrested and will be charged with publishing falsehoods over a report about the poisoning of elephants, the police say. A Sunday Mail article alleged that a syndicate, including a top police officer, was behind the recent use of cyanide to …
A series of deaths of orangutans further confirms the destruction of Indonesia’s forests, contributing to the problem of global climate change. The country’s biodiversity, including protected species such as Sumatran orangutans, elephants and rhinos, is currently under grave threat as a result of habitat devastation. Amid wildfires and the ongoing …
The objective of the study was to identify mechanisms for cancer resistance in elephants and compare cellular response to DNA damage among elephants, healthy human controls, and cancer-prone patients with Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS).
Police officers may soon be able to identify wildlife poachers by retrieving fingerprints from smuggled ivory, new research has revealed. Around 50,000 African elephants are thought to be poached each year, but it had been thought almost impossible to retrieve fingerprints from ivory because of its ridges and porous surface, …
Suspected poachers have used cyanide to kill 23 elephants in Zimbabwe's Hwange national park, raising the death toll there and in the northern part of the country to 60 since late September, officials said on Thursday. Hwange national park in western Zimbabwe currently hosts 53,000 elephants, twice the park's carrying …
At least two more elephants are now known to have been shot dead by poachers in Hwange in northern Zimbabwe, where 22 poisoned elephant carcasses were discovered on Monday. The elephants appear to have been shot with rifles last week, according to the privately-owned Newsday on Tuesday. One man has …
A total of 48 people were killed by wild animals across Namibia between 2013 to date, the Ministry of Environment and Tourism has confirmed. An unspecified number of people sustained injuries of varying degrees, the ministry further said. The director of parks in the ministry, Colgar Sikopo, on Friday said …
Zimbabwean rangers have found the bodies of 22 more elephants that were poisoned with cyanide in the country’s Hwange national park. The grim discovery brings to 62 the number of elephants poisoned by poachers in this southern Africa country in October. Rangers found the carcasses of the elephants in Hwange …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Kashmira Kakati Vs. Union of India & Ors dated 30/09/2015 regarding construction of Solid Waste Management Project in Bogapani Elephant Corridor, Tinsukia district, Assam.
GUWAHATI: Conservationists have hit upon a novel plan to monitor the movement of wildlife from their natural habitat in the Kaziranga National Park to nearby human habitations during flood. The Wildlife Trust of India and the Elephant Family, two environmental organisations, have engaged young volunteers from nearby villages to monitor …
