Himachal Pradesh High Court, August 31, 2023 directed the Animal Welfare Board of India under the control of Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying (Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying) to give practical suggestions to Himachal Pradesh regarding control of the monkey menace and also the stray dogs menace …
The animal house at Panjab University (PU) is not only catering to experimental requirements of various science departments at the university but also from outside university. The house fulfills the requirement of around 1,000 animals every year in addition to a colony of 2500 rats and mice, 10 rabbits and …
As we hurtle headlong into the twenty-first century creating technologies, breathing development, and grabbing land and resources, most of us will readily acknowledge that we may be harming the natural world by our actions and that we must do what we can to correct this. Judging from the enthusiastic response …
IT WAS not that the gorillas and the chimpanzees were fighting for a title—but still the chimpanzees lost. Chimpanzees were believed to be the reservoir of Plasmodium falciparum, the drug-resistant parasite responsible for malaria. A research team, now, claims malaria passed on to humans from gorillas. Microbiologists from University of …
In a discovery that sheds new light on the history of AIDS, scientists have found evidence that the ancestor to the virus that causes the disease has been in monkeys and apes for at least 32,000 years
Ecological studies of orangutans have almost exclusively focused on populations living in primary or selectively logged rainforest. The response of orangutans to severe habitat degradation remains therefore poorly understood. Most experts assume that viable populations cannot survive outside undisturbed or slightly disturbed forests. This is a concern because nearly 75% …
Great ape ranges coincide with some of the poorest countries of the world – particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Great apes attract a great deal of conservation interest and funding, due to their close genetic relationship with humans and their status as global flagship species for conservation. Highly endangered great apes …
Today the majority of wild great ape populations are found outside of the network of protected areas in both Africa and Asia, therefore determining if these populations are able to survive in forests that are exploited for timber or other extractive uses and how this is managed, is paramount for …
Fifty years after setting foot in Gombe, Jane Goodall calls for urgent action to save our closest living relatives from extinction in the wild. Conservationists and local people must collaborate, she and Lilian Pintea conclude. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7303/pdf/466180a.pdf
NAGPUR: An unusually high incidence of monkey deaths over the last three days near a dried up reservoir in the Sindewahi forests, 150km from here in Chandrapur, has driven wildlife officials to panic. While the forest department confirmed that 164 monkeys were found dead, some still perched to tree branches, …
Joseph murray, a Nobel laureate and the first person to perform a successful human kidney transplant, said in 1954, “Scientists agree whenever a cure for aids is found, it will be through animal research.” Murray may or may not be right. More than 85 hiv vaccines have shown promise in …
Call it the great ape escape. UN peacekeepers have flown four young gorillas from a conflict zone where they were at risk of being poached. The gorillas were taken to a rehabilitation centre 200 kilometres north of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and will eventually be released into a …
Public opinion plays a vital role in the planning and management of wildlife. The present study explored the effects of habitat, residency, and gender on the opinions of people regarding human-monkey conflict in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India. For this purpose an opinion survey of 400 participants was conducted on: (a) …
Gorillas, the largest of the great apes, are under renewed threat across the Congo Basin from Nigeria to the Albertine Rift: poaching for bushmeat, loss of habitat due to agricultural expansion, degradation of habitat from logging, mining and charcoal production are amongst these threats, in addition to natural epidemics such …
The Allahabad high court has issued show cause notices to three officials for noncompliance of an order, asking them to initiate steps to drive away dangerous monkeys from a village in the district. The officials who have been issued the notice include Pilibhit district magistrate and Vishalpur SDM, reports our …
An Associate Laureate of the 2004 Rolex Awards, Jo Thompson was selected for her pioneering efforts to save the bonobo, an endangered ape that dwells only in the Congo Basin region of Africa. During the Congo's war years (1998-2002), Thompson's wildlife project maintainted an active presence within the country. In …
While wild chimpanzees are experiencing drastic population declines, their numbers at African rescue and rehabilitation projects are growing rapidly. Chimpanzees follow complex routes to these refuges; and their geographic origins are often unclear. Identifying areas where hunting occurs can help law enforcement authorities focus scarce resources for wildlife protection planning. …
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal today accepted the demand of state MLAs to include protection of crops from wild animals by employing rakhas (guards) under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). Winding up his two-day meeting with MLAs on budget priorities for 2010-11, Dhumal also assured a …
Animal sentinels of poisonous conditions for people have been used for a long time. From the 19th century and well into the 20th century coal miners sent canaries into mining shafts to check if the air was safe to breathe. Lead toxicity remains a significant public health problem around the …
