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 …
An additional 307 wildlife rangers have been deployed to the Maasai Mara Game Reserve to boost security and fight poaching. The rangers were trained at the Manyani Wildlife Training College for the last nine months and graduated on Tuesday at ceremony attended by KWS Director Kitili Mbathi, Narok Governor Samuel …
Wildlife experts and volunteers have been scouring the forest, trying to locate the 250-kilogram tiger, who was last spotted on April 18. As the hunt for tiger Jai continued after it went missing from Umred Karhandla wildlife sanctuary near Nagpur, state Forest Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar today said he would write …
The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) is calling on East African Community Partner States to enact new wildlife legislation with enhanced penalties and improve strategies and protection measures in a bid to save the region's wildlife. Findings by EALA's committee on agriculture, tourism and natural resources indicate that elephants and …
For 20,000 years the remains of millions of woolly mammoths remained locked in permafrost in Siberia and elsewhere—until recently. Warming temperatures have melted this icy layer, bringing their valuable ivory teeth within grasp and leading to a burgeoning trade. For several years conservationists have said this trade is hurting mammoths’ …
NEW DELHI: Seeking to provide more teeth to the existing wildlife protection law, the Centre is looking for an option to introduce clauses of stricter punishment and to change the law to bring it in sync with international conventions which target the trade in endangered species. One of the proposals …
Countries opposed to Kenya's bid to have the global trade of ivory banned are spoiling for a fight ahead of the United Nation's meeting next month in South Africa. The 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna …
Kawal measures around 2,000 sq. km in area but has just around 30-40 base camps with four-five unarmed guards. Hyderabad: Two tigers, a male and a female, which inhabit the Kawal Tiger Reserve, are under severe threat from poachers. In the past five months three poaching incidents have occurred in …
Zimbabwe plans to deploy aerial drones in its biggest wildlife sanctuary in the west to combat poaching of elephants, a parks official said on Monday, as the country aims to protect one of its top tourist attractions. Tourism contributes 11 percent to Zimbabwe's $14 billion economy, according to Ministry of …
Elephant ivory has long been used worldwide to make a host of items from jewelry, piano keys and billiard balls to art and personal seals. Japan, which used ivory to make hanko (personal seals), was one of the biggest importers in the 1970s and 1980s, bringing in about 950 tons …
Agriculture and the overexploitation of plants and animal species are significantly greater threats to biodiversity than climate change, new analysis shows. Joint research published in the journal Nature on Wednesday found nearly three-quarters of the world’s threatened species faced these threats, compared to just 19% affected by climate change. It …
In an operation led by the Lusaka Agreement Task Force (LATF) between July 28 and August 2, wildlife enforcement teams arrested two businessmen in the Republic of the Congo believed to be involved in trafficking at least 1.5 metric tons of elephant tusks. The shipping companies are allegedly involved in …
GUWAHATI: A one-horned rhino cow and her calf were killed by poachers inside the Kaziranga National Park, said park official on Wednesday. Park officials recovered the carcasses of the female rhino and its calf on Wednesday morning from Bagori range of the park. "The horn of the female rhino was …
Over hundred rhinos, 45 tigers and 85 elephants across the country have fallen prey to poachers in the last three years, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Minister of State for Environment and Forests Anil Dave said as per the reports received by his ministry, 20 tigers were poached …
Drones would be deployed over forest areas to monitor the movement of wildlife and attempts of poaching, Forests Minister Dindigul C. Sreenivasan announced in the State Assembly on Tuesday. The Forest department would acquire five drones at a cost of Rs. 20 lakh after obtaining permission from the Ministry of …
The illegal killing of African elephants for their ivory seems to have fallen from record peaks but poaching of the animal is still far too high, an international report said on Thursday. More patrols in wildlife parks, better forensic techniques for tracking the origin of tusks, and a crackdown on …
The world's largest mammals could go extinct if humans don't do more to protect their ecosystems, according to an international team of conservation scientists. Animals including gorillas, rhinoceroses and bears could be wiped out if challenges such as expanding livestock and crop operations, illegal hunting, deforestation and human population growth …
A leopard rests in Serengeti national park, northern Tanzania. Leopards in sub-Saharan Africa are officially classed as ‘threatened’, unlike in northern Africa where their status is ‘endangered’. Conservationists have demanded a crackdown on the import to the US of leopards killed by American hunters, in an attempt to replicate the …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Poaching of Wildlife, 26/07/2016. The management and protection in and around National Parks and Sanctuaries in the country is carried out by the concerned State/Union Territory Governments. Reports of death including poaching of endangered wild animals are received in the Ministry from time to …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Poaching of tigers, 25/07/2016. The assessment of the status of tigers, co-predators and their prey 2014 using the refined methodology has shown a countrywide 30% increase in tiger numbers with an estimated number of 2226 (range 1945-2491) as compared to 2010 estimation of 1706 …
MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - A Kenyan court on Friday sentenced a man to 20 years in jail and fined him 20 million shillings ($200,000) for ivory smuggling. Police accused Feisal Mohamed Ali, from the coastal city of Mombasa, of being behind an international ivory poaching syndicate linked to a 3-tonne …
