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 …
There is threat to the existence of big cat in Madhya Pradesh which has the distinction of being called a Tiger State. Pressure is mounting on the Forest Department, as poachers are active in the surrounding areas of Kanha National Park, Bandhavgarh National Park and Panna National Park. Tiger Cell …
The Government of Assam constituted the Rhino Task Force in June 2005, incorporating conservationists from diverse backgrounds, from government as well as non-governmental organizations, to make the dream drafted under IRV 2020 into reality. The first meeting of the Rhino Task Force was held in November 2005 at Guwahati. The …
Illegal Consignment Was Sent From Meerut Ahmedabad: They pecked and necked in public, but nobody really minded the cacophonic romance by this bunch of parakeets seized as illegal railway consignment on Wednesday. Over 200 of the rose-ringed variety of parakeets were rescued by the forest department from Kalupur railway station …
The Sundarbans of India and Bangladesh is the only mangrove in the world where tigers still live. The Sundarbans has been under various forms of management for about 2,000 years, and is classified as a Tiger Conservation Landscape of Global Priority. Little is known about the Sundarbans tigers, which are …
This report presents an assessment of the trade in gibbons and orang-utans in Sumatra, Indonesia, including the islands off Sumatra’s west coast (most notably, the Mentawai Islands). Until recently Sumatra and its off-lying islands harboured one of the largest expanses of lowland evergreen rainforest in Southeast Asia. Most of the …
In the year 2000, the author a wildlife researcher chose the Palni Hills and had set out to do a survey of mammals along the eastern part of Western Ghats that covers an area of over 2,000 sq. km. The author planned to gather reports of mammals at different elevations …
Reports of an adult tiger missing from the Ranthambore National park have rocked the region. Five wild cats have gone missing from the park in a year with the latest labelled as T-83 unseen for a month now. Though wildlife officials claim the tiger has not been poached, but the …
KOKRAJHAR, Dec 19: Even after the ultimatum from the Government and various campaigns on the adverse effects of poaching of endangered species, it has been continuing on the sly. Fresh cases of poaching has been reported from the forests of Bodoland. The Forest Department recovered the remains along with the …
Dec. 18: In a glaring breach of security at a defence establishment, five sandalwood poachers armed with lethal weapons entered the Air Force Technical College campus in Jalahalli on Wednesday night. An IAF man on guard duty, Lance Naik Amarik Singh, shot one of poachers when the intruders attempted to …
From endangered to vulnerable THE International Union for Conservation of Nature or iucn has lowered the threat level of the Indian one-horned rhinoceros from endangered to vulnerable. This has not gone down well with conservationists in India who contend rhinos are extremely threatened from poaching and epidemics. Seventy per cent …
Nov. 23: The Cy6erabad police on Sunday recovered a tiger skin at Yadgaarpally near Keesara. The Keesara police inspector, Mr T. Manohar Reddy, said, "A passerby informed us that a tiger skin was lying in the bushes beside Yadgaarpally road near Keesara. We inspected the area end found a tiger …
Kuala Lumpur, Merchants who illegally hawk endangered wildlife have begun using blogs to promote their business to tech-savvy customers in Malaysia, an official said on Friday. Authorities have arrested at least six people who used blogs to unlawfully sell snakes, birds and other protected creatures in recent months, said Sivananthan …
JORHAT, Nov 20: Three persons were apprehended by the Forest Department for poaching migratory birds at the Kokilamukh area here today. This is the second poaching incident within a span of a week. In the earlier incident one person was held for capturing and selling six wild ducks in the …
New Delhi: An animal rights activist has moved Supreme Court alleging that he has been implicated in criminal and wildlife violation cases by the Haryana Government, which should instead be taking action against former cricket Test captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi in the
Serena Josephine M, PUDUCHERRY: The Forest Department has formed mobile squads to check the poaching of migratory birds. To step up vigil in border areas, the Department, in coordination with Tamil Nadu, will conduct joint raids on markets and restaurants. The measure follows as many as five incidents of poaching …
