The killing of an alpha elephant bull at Omatjete last week has been highly criticised by Namibian conservation and tourism groups. The elephant, named 'Voortrekker' of the rare Ugab desert-adapted herd, was put down last Tuesday by a government-appointed hunter for N$120 000. To Omatjete's Ohungu Conservancy, who claim to …
Number of swamp deer has increased at the Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve in the last five years. Chief of the Reserve Office, Yubraj Regmi, said that the number of swamp deer has increased by 131 this year as compared to the last year. According to the statistics of the Office, the …
A Saudi prince has poached over 2,100 internationally protected houbara bustards in 21-day hunting safari in Chagai, Balochistan, during which the royal also indulged in illegal hunting in protected areas, says a report. The report titled ‘Visit of Prince Fahd bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud regarding hunting of …
Plans to roll out the controversial badger cull pilots nationwide across England have been dropped by the Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson, after an independent report found the shoots were not effective or humane. The pilot programs were run in Gloucestershire and Somerset in an effort to stop the spread of …
The rare wildlife here are on verge of disappearance in lack of conservation efforts. The Mangri, Kimri, Pulu, Dolphu and Mugu VDCs in the eastern part of the district are considered to be the area enriched with biodiversity. The area is famous for high medicinal value herbs including yarsagunba, guchchhi …
The government on Monday celebrated 365 days of zero rhino poaching in a mark of a year that saw no hunting of the endangered animal in all the major protected areas of the country. Between February 16, 2013 and February 16, 2014, none of the national parks and protected areas—Chitwan …
The agricultural population of India grew by a whopping 50 per cent between 1980 and 2011, the highest for any country during this period, followed by China with 33 per cent, while that of the US dropped by 37 per cent as a result of large-scale mechanisation, a latest report …
Special licences given to high-rolling dignitaries to kill houbara bustard, which is considered to be at risk of extinction Pakistan is witnessing a mounting backlash against Arab sheikhs who spend part of their winters hunting a rare bird that conservationists warn is at risk of extinction. Activists in the country …
Wildlife conservation efforts, particularly for the common leopard in the hills of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), have had little effect as more than 60 common leopards have been illegally hunted in the past four years. According to game wardens in the AJK Wildlife Department, seven common leopards were killed …
Rampant hunting of birds by a section of local people has started in the wetlands of the southern region, including Sylhet, barely with the advent of winter this year. Both with a callous disregard for ecology and greed for money and meat of the graceful creature of nature, the poachers …
Waking up to the threat posed to native wildlife and migratory birds by indiscriminate hunting and poaching, the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government has at last imposed a blanket ban on hunting for three years. The director of AJK wildlife and fisheries department, Chaudhry Mohammad Razzaq, told Dawn here …
A recent survey by the Houbara Foundation International Pakistan and the Punjab Wildlife and Parks Department has found that only 200 Great Indian Bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps) are left in the world. The week-long survey in Cholistan, which documented this critically endangered species, has claimed that exceptional decline in population of …
One-hundred and fifty years after a treaty with England granted the Miskito people rights over their land--a treaty which was never fully respected--the government of Honduras has officially handed over nearly a million hectares (970,000 hectares) of tropical forest along the Caribbean Coast to the indigenous people. The Miskito are …
The trophy hunting of lions Panthera leo is contentious due to uncertainty concerning conservation impacts and because of highly polarised opinions about the practice. African lions are hunted across at least ~558,000 km2, which comprises 27–32% of the lion range in countries where trophy hunting of the species is permitted. …
Owning to security lapses, poaching has increased in Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve these days. Owing to lack of sufficient number of manpower to safeguard the only hunting reserve in the nation, poaching of rare and endangered animals has gone up sharply, according to the Hunting Reserve Office. Nine skin pieces of …
Kolkata: A number of threatened and rare wildlife species, including leopards, are vanishing from Arunachal Pradesh’s Ziro Valley as a result of rampant hunting by the indigenous Apatani tribe, a survey has revealed. A team of researchers from the Wildlife Institute of India recently surveyed the hunting practices by the …
Just a decade ago, the wildest creatures in the Forest of Dean were deer, sheep, foxes and badgers. But today there are as many as 600 wild boars roaming the 111 sq km (43 sq miles) of ancient Gloucestershire woodland – and they are breeding so fast that hundreds may …
The polar bears of Hudson Bay, Canada, migrate onto land in the summer when the sea ice melts, relying on fat reserves to survive until the sea refreezes in late November or early December. During the winter and spring months they take to the sea ice to hunt their prey …
Hunters have slaughtered 3,500 reindeer on a British island near Antarctica to try to get rid of the animals that were brought from Norway a century ago and are an increasing threat to native wildlife. The reindeer on South Georgia were corralled into pens and slaughtered by a 16-strong team, …
A proposal to ban the international trade in polar bear parts was rejected Thursday at a major international conference on wildlife trade, highlighting the difficulties of reaching a global consensus on protecting many kinds of endangered wildlife. The decision on whether to upgrade the protective status of polar bears was …
Around half of the UK's growing deer population needs to be shot each year to stop devastation of woodlands and birdlife, a group of scientists says. A study published in the Journal of Wildlife Management says this would keep numbers stable. The deer population is currently estimated at around 1.5 …
