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 …
From our Correspondent MANGALDAI, September 14: Several militant outfits operating in the state being unable to continue their extortion drive has diverted their target on the poaching of the highly endangered species of one horned rhinos only to strengthen their fund and this has been come to the light following …
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Gandhinagar: The forest department has finally woken up. To strengthen their informer network and also to get more tip-offs about illegal activities in and around various sanctuaries in the state, the department has proposed incentives for informers. A proposal has already been cleared and is awaiting …
Dehra Dun, September 7 Carcass of a young male elephant was today recovered from the Najibabad forest area in Uttar Pradesh barely at a distance of 4 km from the Uttarakhand Motadhang area falling in the Lansdowne forest division. The state forest officials found a carcass of the elephant aged …
Pune, Contrary to the perception that it was just one chinkara deer that fell to the bullets of former Maharashtra minister Dharmarao Baba Atram, the prosecution has chargesheeted him for killing two chinkaras and two rabbits in the forest bordering Bhor-Baramati where he had gone for hunting on June 14. …
An international racket of trade in tiger parts has been unearthed by the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) leading to the arrest of three alleged poachers. The racket, having connections with Narayan, brother of jailed poacher Sansarchand, was busted during a five-month-long operation in four north Indian states. Three key …
To restrain the growth of Kruger's elephant population, 14,562 animals were culled from 1967 to 1995, when South Africa banned the practice. "It was extraordinarily traumatic," says Ian Whyte, the park's longtime elephant specialist, who witnessed many of the culls. "You had to shut your mind to it, otherwise you'd …
From the Gir National Park in Gujarat to the Sunderbans in West Bengal, lions and tigers are ranging far beyond territories administered by the forest department. Communities that have traditionally been accommodative are now unsettled, their patience worn thin by the rising incidents of human-animal conflicts. Yet, the debate on …
Tigers attack people. People impatient, they are second priority. What is the way out? July 24, 2007. Hungry and exhausted after fishing all day on the Bidyadhari river, Amirul Naiya, his two brothers and three other fishermen pulled up their country boat into a creek in the dense Sunderbans mangroves, …
Pune, Clueless forest officials probing the death of as many as 28 peacocks in Ranjangaon near here were confronted by fresh bird plumage suggestive of two more deaths, taking the toll in the last five days to 30. Mr D.G. Raut, the forest officer probing the incidents that have baffled …
Pune, August 25 Even as the mystery behind the deaths of 27 peafowls in Khedkar Wasti near Ranjangaon in Shirur taluka remains unsolved, villagers of Raut Wadi in Shikrapur, about 15 km from Khedkar Wasti, have alleged that unknown miscreants may have killed two peacocks in the region for meat. …
BY VILAS TOKALE MUMBAI Former Maharash tra minister Dharmarao Atram not only killed the endangered chinkara but also "watched it being cut into pieces by his partners in crime'. This has been revealed in statements of eyewitnesses submitted to the high court which rejected Atram's bail plea and asked him …
Lack of information, coordination and expertise make wildlife crime difficult to curb In the first week of July, a major player in wildlife trade was subjected to narco analysis and brain mapping at the Central Forensic Laboratory in Bangalore. Shabbir Hussain Qureshi was arrested in 2007 in Lucknow and was …
