Affidavit filed by the Chief Wildlife Warden, Assam in the matter of news item titled "the last feral horses in India" appearing in Mongabay, November 5, 2024. The matter relates to the critically endangered status of feral horses in the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park as well as of smuggling of these …
Tanzania's Serengeti National Park is Africa's best safari park because of to the sheer numbers, variety of wildlife, abundance of predators and spectacular wildebeest migration. According to the latest ratings by safari travellers and African travel experts, Serengeti National Park polled 4.9 out of 5, emerging the winner. In second …
Wildlife troopers shot dead three armed men in Kenya’s Mount Elgon National Park on Wednesday while two other suspected poachers were injured but escaped, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said. “The officers were on routine patrol inside the park when they encountered five poachers, two of whom were armed,” KWS …
The Zambian government on Tuesday denied reports that it has authorized the culling of 2,000 hippopotamuses in a national park with a high population of the mammals. Born Free, a conservationist organization which two years ago led protests against plans by the government to cull elephants in the famous Luangwa …
In 2014, villagers in Meghalaya’s Garo Hills set aside a part of their community-owned land to create village reserve forests, giving right of passage to elephants. In acknowledgement of that gesture, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) on Monday rolled out …
Monrovia – Conservation International and the Government of Liberia launched The Liberia Conservation Fund -Liberia’s first independent conservation fund to provide sustainable, long-term financing for the country’s protected areas. Conservation International has committed $1million USD to the Fund via its Global Conservation Fund and the Government of Liberia has made …
ARUSHA Tanzania (Xinhua) -- Tanzanian authorities have announced new strategies aimed at saving Lake Manyara National Park, which is threatened deposition caused by farming activities. Telesia Mahonga, Karatu District Commissioner, said the Lake Manyara ecosystem is under serious threat, and if left unattended the northern Tanzanian park will vanish. "We …
The Tanzanian government is putting foreign safari companies ahead of Maasai herding communities as environmental tensions grow on the fringes of the Serengeti national park, according to a new investigation. Hundreds of homes have been burned and tens of thousands of people driven from ancestral land in Loliondo in the …
Maputo – A species of bat, previously unknown to science, has been discovered in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, in the central province of Sofala. A study published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society describes three new species of bats from Southern Africa. One, with the scientific name Rhinolophus …
Maputo — The Mozambican government plans to invest, over the next five years, 100 million US dollars in building infrastructures and stimulating conservation agriculture in those districts where national parks and reserves are located. The Minister of Land, Environment and Rural Development, Celso Correia, announced this intention on Wednesday at …
Kenya Parliament has been asked to consider passing laws to direct farm owners living near national game reserves and parks to take up mandatory insurance policies for protection against damages by animals. This follows an 18-year legal battle between an agricultural firm and the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) after the …
With more than 30 camera traps, FD will study their habitat. Mumbai: The forest department has started the study of leopard population and their migration pattern in the forest areas of Thane. With more than 30 camera traps at present, the forest department along with independent researchers are going to …
At long last, following legislative approval on August 22, 2017, the Grebo-Krahn National Park was formally launched over the weekend in Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County, before a record crowd, including citizens of River Gee, an FDA release has said. The ceremony, which was overwhelmingly graced by hundreds of concerned community …
The cost of conservation and climate change has been felt by forest dwelling communities who were displaced to set up two national parks, Bwindi and Mt. Elgon. Three decades after being displaced, the Batwa and Benets also known as indigenous people are still landless. Today, climate change has created benefits …
NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- The Chinese firm extending Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) from Kenya’s Nairobi to Naivasha has said the project will not affect the health of the country’s wildlife heritage and other ecological treasures along its corridor. Steve Zhao, the spokesperson for the Kenya SGR Head Office, said sound …
According to the Deputy Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Mr Japhet Hasunga, even some public institutions have already set up offices in the illegally established villages in the forest reserves. Mr Hasunga was speaking at the closure of a month-long course on “Paramilitary Transformation Leadership,” at Lwafi Training Centre …
The death this month of 45 year-old Sudan, the last male northern white rhino on the planet, rings the alarm on the imminent extinction of other endangered animals. The news also gives a renewed urgency to Kate Brooks' documentary The Last Animals, about the threat poaching poses to the dwindling …
The Indonesian government has unveiled an ambitious plan to restore a heavily degraded national park that is one of the last remaining habitats on Earth for the critically endangered Sumatran tiger. The restoration of Teso Nilo National Park in Riau province, on the island of Sumatra, has been two years …
Yaguas National Park is home to more than 3,000 species of plants, 500 species of birds and 160 species of mammals Andes Amazon Fund The rainforests in Peru’s remote north-west corner are vast – so vast that the clouds that form above them can influence rainfall in the western United …
Eighteen employees of a gorilla sanctuary in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have been abducted by a militia group, sources have said. An official with an NGO said the abduction took place on Monday in the area of Nzovu, in Kahuzi-Biega national park. They said an armed group called …
NAIROBI - Demonstrators plan to protest against a railway line being built inside Nairobi National Park, which they say threatens wildlife and people in Kenya, after their case was dismissed on Tuesday. A court said that it cannot stop construction of a 6 km (4 mile) railway bridge, which the …
