GUURGRAM: The outbreak of Newcastle virus among peacocks, reported from Bhondsi on Friday, has prompted district authorities to take prompt action. On Monday, 24,142 poultry birds were vaccinated at poultry farms. The action was taken after deputy commissioner Vinay Pratap Singh instructed officials of the animal husbandry and wildlife departments …
Wildlife Department has failed to control the New Castle “Ranikhet” disease as two more peacocks died of the deadly disease here on Thursday raising the overall death toll to 118. It should be mentioned that beauty of Tharparkar, renowned for the wandering peacocks in open air, was fading due to …
A division bench of the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit, comprising Justices Faisal Arab and Riazat Ali Sahar, directed a deputy conservator of the wildlife department in Hyderabad on Thursday to submit a written report on steps taken to protect peafowl. The bench adjourned the matter to Aug 22 after …
Sindh government finally took notice of the deaths of peafowl in Thar due to viral epidemic, and announced to establish a mobile unit with technical staff to treat peafowl in the deserts of Thar. Conservator Sindh Wildlife Department (SWD) Hussain Bux Bhagat said his department has approved new scheme under …
Speakers at a dialogue on ‘peacocks mortality and climate change effect on Thar’ have urged the government to take serious measures to protect peafowl from Newcastle disease, which have killed hundreds of birds in the desert over the past couple of years. The dialogue was organised at the press club …
Jaipur: Seventeen peacocks were found dead in Tonk’s Jalgaon forest area on Monday. The police registered an FIR on Tuesday suspecting that the peacocks were given poisonous grains by poachers. According to the police, some villagers who had gone to the forests on Monday spotted carcasses of as many as …
At least two more peacocks have died due to a contagious disease as the death toll has reached to 47 in last eight days in Tharparkar. According to private news channel, the peacocks died of Newcastle disease, locally known as 'Ranikhet' while several others are also reported to be infected. …
Nineteen more peacocks reportedly died in different villages in Diplo taluka on Wednesday which appeared to have died of the highly contagious Newcastle disease, raising the death toll to 41 since the outbreak of the disease in the desert two weeks ago. The wildlife department has since been in a …
Tharparkar peafowl are under threat as the Newcastle disease has returned to the district and killed 22 peafowl within two weeks while many others are inflicted with the disease, Dawn has learnt. However, the wildlife department has taken no action to save the birds considered sacred and the beauty of …
BHOPAL: Over 50 peacocks died in Morena district in the past 48 hours due to excessive heat. The forest officials recovered nearly dozen dead birds and sent them for post-mortem. The high toll raised serious concern in the district, which is home to perhaps largest number of peacocks in India. …
Bihar plans to turn a village into a breeding centre for the Indian national bird peacock, forest officials officials said on Friday. Madhopur-Gobind village in East Champaran district, home to around 500 peacocks, is popularly known as 'mor gaon' or peacock village. "The government has decided to set up a …
THE results of the 2013 census of herbivores in Gir forests are likely to be declared on Friday with officials hinting at an increase in the population of the wild animals that Asiatic lions in the forests prey on. "We are collating and analysing data collected from all the 19 …
Tree saplings and seedlings are being raised in the nurseries owned by the Forest Department across the district. Saplings of teak, rosewood, pungan and other varieties were being raised in the division. An official told The Hindu on Tuesday that the department had raised over one lakh saplings in Hosur …
At least two peacocks died in a remote village of Tharparkar district on Monday, sources told Dawn. The peacocks, they said, were found dead in Sangelo village in Diplo taluka. However, they could not confirm the exact cause of death. “Our team is there in the village and another one …
Expressing concern over the killing of peacocks in the state, the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau has asked police to take stern action against the poachers. Increased poaching of peacock for feather is posing a serious threat to the national bird in the region, Special Officer of the Wildlife Crime Control …
BHOPAL: Urban Administration and Development minister, Babulal Gaur has said that Bhopal's Shahpura hillock will be developed as beautiful city forest. He said an action plan for the hillock's development will be chalked out soon in coordination with the municipal corporation, tourism development corporation and capital project administration (CPA). The …
Urbanisation, Insecticides Pushing Winged Creatures Towards Extinction Lucknow: Many bird species once sighted commonly across Uttar Pradesh are now vanishing. The reasons could be many and diverse, but technology appears to be the biggest factor behind this threat looming over the feathered friends of man. First mynahs faced the extinction …
BHOPAL: Hailstorm claimed the lives of a dozen peacocks in Saroda region of Ashok Nagar on Monday night. Standing crops in several villages across the state has also been damaged in the hailstorm. The incident occurred at Khai Kheda village where the villagers found the dead peacocks and the officials …
Thousands of acres of uncultivable forested hills in Haryana, Gurgaon and Faridabad face the same prospect Two decades ago when Sunil’s parents sold off 25 acres of their family’s share of land in the Mangar forests of Faridabad, they and other villagers thought the buyers were fools to buy it …
Twelve peacocks have died of a mysterious disease at an outhouse-turned park of landlord Ch. Arshad Ali in village Mundeyki Goraya during the last week. Arshad Ali, former chairman of Daska Municipality, told the newsmen that he had adopted all the preventive measures to save his peacocks but all the …
The national bird peacock seems to be low on the priority list of Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) considering the fact that the national peacock census proposed by the Wildlife Institute of India has been pending for nearly five years. WII scientists point out that they need funds …
