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 …
Guwahati: Forest and wildlife personnel in Assam on Sunday apprehended two of the poachers involved in killing of a rhino at Orang National Park on Saturday along with arms and ammunition from Jakhalabandha area in Nagaon district. Orang National Park Director S Momin informed that two other poachers were absconding …
Guwahati: With Kaziranga National Park, home to the largest number of one-horned rhinos in the world, getting maximum attention for conservation and protection, poachers have shifted focus to Orang National Park in northern Assam. As this 78.82 sq km park faces a shortage of manpower and equipment, poachers have managed …
MANGALDAI, June 21: The Orang National Park (ONP) authorities promptly swung into action following the killing of a full grown female rhino in the evening of June 20 and arrested two hard-core poachers at Jakhalabandha in Nagaon district, at a distance of about 140 km from ONP, while they were …
Udhagamandalam: Seven persons have been arrested for killing a wild boar at Hallatty near Kadanad. The district forest officer, K. Soundarapandian, told Hindu?The here that a team of officials on a tip-off visited the spot on Saturday night and arrested them while they were sharing the meat. He said a …
The investigation into tiger killing case at Keri has hit the rock bottom in the absence of forensic report. Goa Forest Department had achieved a major breakthrough in the long pending tiger killing case on June 1, by spotting where the tiger carcass were burnt and all the evidence were …
GOLAGHAT, June 18: The Bongaigaon sector of the Sahastra Seema Bal (SSB) under the ministry of Home Affairs has been engaged in intensive patrolling conducted by the SSb to guard the Indo-Bhutan International border and their hard work has paid off as a huge quantity of ganja, a rhino horn …
RABINDRA NATH CHOUDHURY BHUBANESWAR The fall of monarchy in Nepal has had its fallout in the 12th-century Jagannath temple at Puri, nearly 65 km from here. The fabled shrine is now running short of musk, which is used in some rituals during deities
A she-elephant in an advanced stage of pregnancy has been shot dead by poachers at the Hurulu Environment park in close proximity to Kodigalakande Forest Hermitage at Habarana-Trincomalee main road. Wildlife officials attached to Mahaweli Zone said that this 20 to 25 years old and 6 1/2 foot tall elephant …
In February, 16 poachers were jailed for killing lions in Gir National Park in Gujarat, home to the only wild population of Asiatic Lions. Inspector general of police Keshav Kumar, who was with the criminal investigation department in Ahmedabad, cracked the case using dna fingerprinting and narcoanalysis. It was the …
At least one snow leopard has been killed by poachers every year since the enactment in 1995 of the forest, nature and conservation Act, which prohibits the killing of endangered wild animals in the country. Records until 2007 with the nature conservation department (NCD) show that 193 wild animals were …
BHUBANESWAR: The police today seized ivory weighing 3.5 kg and held seven persons in this connection here. The incident has re-established that ivory smuggling is thriving in Orissa. Two years back, a huge haul of 14 kg tusk was seized by a joint squad of the Crime Branch and Wildlife …
ROURKELA: Officials of Jarda range under Bonai forest division accompanied by Gurundia police recently recovered two elephant tusks worth over Rs 10 lakh. Six persons allegedly involved in wildlife poaching were arrested. Reports said Jarda range office was tipped of about the plan of the poachers to dispose of the …
The State government has asked Chief Conservator of Forest Dr Shashi Kumar to submit a detailed investigation report on alleged tiger killing at Keri by Friday.
Jamshedpur, June 3: The state forest department will organise a two-day seminar, starting tomorrow, to educate its employees on how to protect wildlife. The Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) will hold the workshop at the forest guesthouse in Dalma. Forest officials and field staff will be educated on how to …
The Forest Department investigation into the killing of a tiger has revealed that the animal was killed and later burnt in a cashew plantation to destroy the traces of killing.
