Apart from poaching and habitat loss, climate change-induced droughts have been threatening the rhino population in Africa, pointed out a new report. On the other hand, climate disruptions in Asia can lead to the deaths of rhinos. Increased precipitation, longer monsoons and seasonal floods are already resulting in stranding, drowning …
Activists of All Assam Students Union (Aasu), Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP), Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS), All Assam Journalist Union (Aaju) and Bokakhat Press Club on Monday gheraoed the divisional forest officer and the chief conservator of forest, Kaziranga, in protest against the unabated rhino killings at the …
Suspected poachers killed yet again a rhino in Kaziranga National Park on Sunday and axed off its horn, which has taken the death toll of rhinos in past 47 days in Assam to 10. The park authorities, who seem to have been groping in dark about the nexus of poachers, …
Over 200 wildlife product trafficking cases were cracked and more than 100 criminal suspects apprehended in a multinational crackdown, China's wildlife watchdog said Sunday. China led the operation involving 22 Asian and African countries from January 6 to February 5, the State Forestry Administration said. Through the operation codenamed "Cobra," …
What are the odds of survival of a forest guard armed with a bolt-action rifle of WWII vintage while facing a poacher armed with an HK MP5 submachine gun? By the time he cocks his rifle and takes aim, his opponent would have shot him 100 times. This probably explains …
The green group says by the end of the year it will have deployed 'eyes in the sky' in one country in Africa or Asia Conservation group WWF has announced plans to deploy surveillance drones to aid its efforts to protect species in the wild, as the South African government …
The green group says by the end of the year it will have deployed 'eyes in the sky' in one country in Africa or Asia Conservation group WWF plans to deploy surveillance drones to aid its efforts to protect species in the wild. The green group says that by the …
Indonesia and Malaysia are witnessing almost a third of forest loss in the last 10 years due to the expansion of oil palm. New Delhi, Feb. 4: Growing demand for palm oil in India is threatening wildlife in Indonesia and Malaysia, a study released by WWF India said. According to …
Soaring demand for rhino horns in Vietnam is posing a threat to the long-term conservation of one-horned rhinos in the state. This year alone, eight rhinos, including one in Manas National Park, have been poached in the state. Assam lost at least 21 rhinos to poaching in 2012. Even though …
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said that the State Government was seeking a CBI probe into the recent spurt in rhino poaching, especially in Kaziranga National Park. “We are calling for a CBI probe into the rhino killings… there could be a conspiracy behind the spurt in poaching, and we …
Rhino poaching has assumed menacing proportions in Assam, with the number of one-horned pachyderms poached in recent months almost equalling the number of rhinos killed in the devastating floods that hit the state last year. Assam experienced one of the worst floods in eight years in 2012, resulting in the …
Lucknow: Have Dudhwa tigers shunned their preferred prey - the cheetals and sambhars - to hunt the mighty rhinos? The killing of a 35-yearold female rhino by a tiger in Dudhwa national park and the subsequent eating of the carcass has raised a doubt if the behaviour of Dudhwa tigers …
The Rhino Task Force set up by the state government to improve security in rhino inhabited areas of the state has reaffirmed its target to attain 3,000 wild rhinos by 2020 in the face of the ongoing killing of rhinos for their horns in the state by poachers. The total …
Poachers have slaughtered 32 South African rhinos in the first three weeks of 2013, marking a disturbing start to the year for a country battling crisis level killings of the beast, government said Wednesday. A record 668 rhinos were killed last year, most of them in the vast wildlife reserve …
Officials in Nepal have said they will now have to put a cap on the growth of wildlife including endangered species like tigers and rhinos. They say it is a result of significant increase in loss of human lives from attacks by wild animals. The problem is especially acute in …
Some months ago, a woman was caught with a tiger cub in her bag at the Bangkok Airport. She had put the sedated cub in her bag along with a few stuffed toy tigers. However, airport staff spotted the cub when the bag went under the scanner and booked her. …
After a lot of flip-flops, the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) has once again agreed "in principle" to take over the service of water supply from the public health engineering department. Senior MCG officials still maintain that there is still nothing on paper, clearly indicating that they are not very …
Incidents of rhino poaching and the illegal horn trade are at the highest levels in over 20 years, placing the survival of these species at great risk, according to a recent report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Traffic, a wildlife trade monitoring network. The report, …
A third relocated rhino has been poached in Manas sanctuary in Assam, causing concern among conservationists and prompting World Wildlife Fund(WWF), partners in the Indian Rhino Vision 2020 programme, to question the sincerity of the state forest department in protecting the endangered animal. The discovery of the crime comes close …
SOME of the richest and most biodiverse forests in Indonesia will soon be opened up for commercial exploitation under a plan drafted by the new government of Aceh. The chairman of the Aceh parliament's spatial planning committee, Mr Anwar (who goes by only one name) has confirmed the plan would …
Poachers slaughtered a record 668 rhinos in South Africa in 2012 as demand for their horns continued to surge on the black market in Asia, the government said yesterday. Over 60 percent of the slaughtered pachyderms were from the vast Kruger National Park, South Africa's largest wildlife reserve and the …
