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 …
Vrinda Sharma CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government has sought clearance from the Central Zoo Authority to set up an ultra-modern facility to tame, rehabilitate and teach manners to rogue monkeys. The first-of-its-kind monkey school will provide inmates with medical care and good-behaviour training.
The aims of the UN's initiative to protect the last gorillas are laudable – but they are a distraction from the pressing need for anti-poaching measures. (Editorial)
Mumbai A passenger was arrested on Wednesday by the Customs at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Sahar. According to the Customs officials, Thomas Ignatius Fernandes was in possession of three Lemurs, an engdangered species of monkeys, found in the regions around Central South Africa. Fernandes arrived in a Thai Airways …
Researchers have discovered a new sub-species of monkey in a remote part of the Amazon rain forest, a U.S.-based wildlife conservation group said on Tuesday. The newly found monkey was first spotted by scientists in 2007 in the Brazilian state of Amazonas and is related to the saddleback tamarin monkeys, …
Twelve very rare and endangered velvet monkeys that were being brought into the country by using forged documents have been confiscated and the wildlife trafficker has been caught and fined. According to sources, the smuggled moneys are being kept in quarantine, and the fine has been recovered by the Sindh …
Researchers in Gabon and France have discovered a new species of malaria parasite, one that lives in chimpanzees but is closely related to the species most deadly to humans. The new species was described last week in the journal PLoS Pathogens. It was named Plasmodium gaboni, and it is closely …
Pakistani hunters are trying to catch a wild leopard roaming the grounds of Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani's official residence, an official said on Monday. The animal, first spotted on a closed-circuit television camera, slipped into the garden of the well-guarded Islamabad compound late last week, perhaps in search of …
Researchers may have discovered a technique that will eventually lead to a way to vaccinate against the AIDS virus, by creating an artificial antibody carried into the body by a virus. This synthetic immune system molecule protected monkeys against an animal version of HIV called SIV, the researchers reported in …
JORHAT, May 12: The man-animal conflict in Jorhat has received a new dimension with hordes of rhesus monkeys menacing villages in North-West Jorhat. The area which comprises cultivable farms of fruits, vegetables and paddy are facing depredations on a daily basis. A farmer of Madhya Goru Mora village, Robin Bora, …
Aprimatologist, environmentalist and UN messenger of peace - that's Dame Jane Goodall for one and all. But what is she doing at a technology platform like Map World Forum, raised the brow of many a technologist at the event. When she waxed eloquent about technology in general and GIS in …
There are over 0.3 million rhesus monkeys in Northern India. Approximately 48.5% of these are living in human habitation areas. The inordinate growth in populations of such monkeys in recent years has led to an unhealthy competition for space and food between man and monkey.
This report presents an assessment of the trade in gibbons and orang-utans in Sumatra, Indonesia, including the islands off Sumatra’s west coast (most notably, the Mentawai Islands). Until recently Sumatra and its off-lying islands harboured one of the largest expanses of lowland evergreen rainforest in Southeast Asia. Most of the …
In the wake of severe fighting in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, worried rangers began a painstaking census late last month of the park's highly endangered mountain gorillas, nearly a third of the world's known population.
global warming Maldives seeks new homeland As rise in the sea level caused by global warming threatens low-lying islands across the world, Maldives is looking for a new territory to relocate to.
When it comes to feeding monkeys, Delhi residents would rather do it hands-on, perhaps in the hope of being blessed by monkey god Hanuman! Or so the Capital's civic agencies are discovering while trying to implement a court order. Special centres set up near two Hanuman temples by the New …
