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 …
Cheryl Konrad has spent the last 35 years educating visitors to her Lahaina, Hawaii, store about the centuries-old history of scrimshaw. Konrad fills the shelves in Lahaina Scrimshaw with the etchings of local artists on fossilized walrus and mammoth ivory. But if a bill to ban the sale of ivory …
Head in hands, a distraught wildlife park worker struggles to hide his emotion after three white rhinos were attacked by poachers for their horns. One warden described the slaughter – at a reserve in South Africa – as ‘the worst day of my life’. Two female rhinos were found dead …
Elephant poaching in northern Tanzania's wildlife sanctuary, Tarangire National Park, has gone down for the past two years, a senior park official said on Sunday. Park tourism officer Geoffrey Mboma said that killing of elephants in the park for their tusks has been largely contained, and between July 2014 to …
This publication highlights the unique contribution of ten GEF financed, UNDP supported projects in six tiger range countries (Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand), demonstrating how conservation activities in tiger habitat can accomplish more than the preservation of one iconic wildlife species. The comprehensive approach our projects employ, based …
BHUBANESWAR: As many as 193 elephants died in the last three years in the State. In a written reply to a question from Prakash Chandra Behera (Cong) in the Assembly, Forest and Environment Minister Bikram Arukha said 70 elephants died in 2013-14, 55 in 2014-15 and 68 in 2015-16. He …
Even as China, the world’s leading market for illegal ivory, promises to help safeguard elephants in Africa, a rare bird in Southeast Asia is in danger because its skull is being sold in China as an ivory alternative, conservationists say. The bird, the helmeted hornbill, is already threatened by habitat …
Kolhapur: As many as 32 wild animals were hunted in the forest areas falling under the Kolhapur division's jurisdiction since 2013. According to the data furnished by the forest department, the number of animals falling prey to hunters increased from six in 2013 to 16 in 2015. In 2013, six …
Nairobi — President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday visited the Nairobi National Park ahead of the April event when he will preside over the destruction of massive stockpiles of ivory. At the event, Kenya will torch 120 tonnes of ivory, just 17 short of Kenya's total stockpiles and 1.5 tonnes of …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Social Action For Forest & Environment (SAFE) Vs Uttarakhand Forest Department & Others dated 21/03/2016 regarding construction of 2 km length of wall on the right bank of Song river in Rajaji National Park, Motichur range of Rajaji National Park, …
DEHRADUN: A day after the special task force (STF) of Uttarakhand police seized the skins of five big cats from a gang of poachers, a red alert was issued in the entire Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR). It also emerged that the state forest department, which went into a huddle soon …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Lion Reserves, 15/03/2016. Asiatic Lions are found only in Gir forests of Gujarat. Total number of lions in Gir forest as per the last census carried out in 2015 was estimated as 523. As per information available with the Ministry, there is no case …
Darchula police on Sunday made public two people who were arrested earlier on the charge of wildlife poaching. The accused are Janak Bahadur Shahi, 39, of Jubidha-8, Kalikot and Kalamram Parki, 30, of Sunsera-2, Darchula. They were detained for their involvement in the illegal killing of snow leopard, put in …
Tanzania is working on a new security strategy that will help curb poaching of elephants and other crimes against wildlife within and outside protected areas. The Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism Jumanne Maghembe said the new security strategy will involve training a special force that will be equipped with …
The Minister of Land, Environment and Rural Development, Celso Correia, announced in Maputo on 3 March that during 2015 the Mozambican authorities detained over 300 people in connection with poaching. He was speaking at commemorations of World Wildlife Day, at a time when the country's wild life is under serious …
The number of rhinos killed by poachers in Africa rose for the sixth year in a row, threatening the survival of the endangered animals. At least 1,338 rhinos were killed by poachers across Africa in 2015, according to data by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Since 2008, at …
A new smartphone app developed in St Petersburg in Florida, USA is being used to fight poachers in northern Kenya. The app known as the Fulcrum app, has been used for years by businesses and municipalities to collect forms and field data using customizable smartphone apps. Now, the geospatial technology …
A GLOBAL report has painted a gloomy picture on the future of Zimbabwe's elephant herd, revealing shocking evidence that the number of Jumbos killed by poachers in Chewore alone increased by 12 percent last year. This was a period when authorities increased efforts to stem a ruthless slaughter of elephants …
The mass slaughter of rhinos has increased for the sixth year in a row, according to grim new figures from international researchers. At least 1,338 of the iconic animals were killed for their horns in Africa last year. This is the greatest loss in a single year since an intense …
The number of elephants being killed for their ivory has stabilised but overall species numbers have continued to decline. Data produced for 2015 shows that poachers are still killing more elephants than are born every year. The report also highlighted a rising trend in poaching in South Africa's Kruger National …
Barack Obama has said that urgent action is needed to save elephants from becoming extinct in the wild, adding that failure to do so would be an “unpardonable loss for humanity and the natural world”. The president said that the US has made “unprecedented progress” in protecting wildlife domestically and …
