In 2019, the illegal wildlife trade reached staggering levels. Pangolin scales and ivory were being trafficked in massive quantities from Africa to Asia, exposing a network of crime syndicates operating at an industrial scale. The sheer volume of these shipments marked a disturbing milestone, one that revealed the global reach …
IN 1975, when she was prime minister, Indira Gandhi had suggested deploying Coast Guards to check illegal trawling with a view to leave the Olive Ridleys unmolested in the Orissa area. Gahirmatha had just been brought to the attention of the world by Bustard. Over the years, however, there was …
The largest of all cats, tigers, are gradually dying due to a loss of habitat, diminishing stocks of prey and poaching. About 100,000 tigers lived in the Asian wilderness at the beginning of this century. Only about 5,000 or about five per cent are believed to remain today. Poaching is …
the Union minister for environment and forests, Saifuddin Soz, has sought support from developed countries and non-governmental organisations for strengthening the on-going conservation efforts in the country. Speaking at the Third General Assembly of the Asian Conservation Alliance, he cautioned that human greed can always devise ingenious methods for poaching …
There have been hundreds of statements made about the future of the tiger over the last few years in India and around the world. Millions of dollars have been spent on conferences, expert meetings and the bureaucracies that support them. Presidents, Prime Ministers and politicians in many parts of the …
despite the ban on trapping and trade of wild birds in India, illegal traffic flourishes almost all over India, especially in northern India, according to the latest survey by the World Wide Fund for Nature (wwf) and traffic -India. The report, based on 64 surveys in 57 trading establishments/trapping areas …
An ecofascist's last stand at Harare India consistently voted for trade bans in products made from endangered species the denouement was dramatic. The decision of the 10th Conference of Parties ( cop-10 ) on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( cites ) to allow restricted trade in …
in 1976, when India became a signatory to cites , the Indian tiger, the Greater One-horned Rhinoceros and the Asian elephant were already listed as protected species in the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972. All three species have fared badly despite laws against domestic trade in these species and international …
India's stand on the elephant showed how insensitive it is to the problems humans face in countries with a high population of the species. India voted for each proposal to ban trade and against every proposal for restricted trade in endangered species, irrespective of its relevance to India. Voting against …
India's proposals to list Picrorhiza kurrooa (Kutki) and Nardostachys grandiflora (Jatamansi) in Appendix II of CITES provided some relief to tired delegates at Harare. And India made a laughing stock of itself. The proposals had been submitted twice before at previous CITES meets, and rejected both times for want of …
According to a report published by the TRAFFIC India Network ( Under Siege: Poaching and Protection of the One-horned Rhino in India ), 692 rhinos may have been poached between 1980 and 1993, and 209 between 1990-1993 alone. The demand is mainly for the rhino horn
The pharmaceuticals industry in India is agitated over the finalisation of a list of 56 herbs whose export is to be banned. Drawn up by the ministry of commerce in consultation with the ministry of environment and forests (MEF), the list, which includes Jatamansi, is being expanded by the MEF …
CHIEF Adlife warqens and their representatives from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Orissa and West Bengal held the first coordination meeting in Calcutta in early June. The aim of the meeting was to pit resources of the eastern Indian states against the depletion of flora and fauna affected by poaching and …
A RECENT study conducted by a Delhi- based NGO, Vatavaran, revealed that there iva blatant plundering of the Nilgiri bioreserve by the international wildlife trade cartel. The bioreserve constitutes 15 per cent of India's total protected area sheltering 100 mammalian species, 550 avian species and 30 reptilian species. Vatavaran stated …
Zimbabwe's proposal for reopening ivory trade is one of the hot issues at this year's Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting this month. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries of Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana have united in their proposal to restart the trade in ivory. Although …
NEW ZEALAND has become a major transit point for traffickers dealing in Australian birds captured illegally from the wild. According to a report from TRAFFIC Oceania, which monitors wildlife trade in the region, traffickers smuggle eggs and birds into New Zeal4nd and export them to Europe, Asia and the US. …
RECENT findings of a regional TRAFFIC (a joint programme of the World Wildlife Fund for Nature and the World Conservation Union) has expressed concern that trade in bear organs may continue to place pressure on the declining wild bear population, especially in Asia. East Asia is the centre for the …
THE Adlife Protection Act, 1991, bans the trade of wild animals and its related products. Despite this, a trade in antlers of sambar and cheetal is still continuing with the official sanction in Uttar Pradesh. Sources say that a number of forest divisions have been identified from where the shed …
A. The quick and the dead Human pressure, lack of research and shrinking forests coupled with a thriving international trade in wildlife threatens to turn a zoologist's Garden of Eden into a poacher's paradise on november 25, 1996, Vietnamese Premier Vo Van Kiet issued a dire warning to his audience …
The present century has seen very few discoveries of new mammalian species. Of the four discovered so far, Vietnam itself accounts for three. In the 1990s, two new species of big mammals
