700 wildlife criminals arrested in a year
At a time when poaching of tigers and rhinos has been rampant worldwide‚ Nepal has achieved zero poaching of rhinos‚ tigers and jumbos KATHMANDU: Law enforcement officials have arrested more than 700
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Govt celebrates zero rhino poaching year
The government on Monday celebrated 365 days of zero rhino poaching in a mark of a year that saw no hunting of the endangered animal in all the major protected areas of the country. Between February
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Namibia: Hunters' Association Spends N$2 Million On Anti-Poaching
To help combat rhino and elephant poaching, members of the Namibia Professional Hunting Association (NAPHA) donated goods valued at N$1.987 million for auction. Although no incidence of rhino and elephant
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Kaziranga loses two more rhinos
Kaziranga National Park lost two rhinos on Thursday. While one was killed by poachers at Kukrakata reserve forest adjoining the park, the other one died after the animal fell into a muddy pit. With
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Zero poaching fiscal year of Rhino in Chitwan
The Chitwan National Park has marked the Fiscal Year 2014/15 as zero poaching year of Rhino in the park. Not a single Rhino lost its life to poaching in the park as well as in the forest area of the
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Assam government awaiting expert opinion on trimming rhino horns
The Assam government is awaiting expert opinion on feasibility of trimming rhino horns to protect the pachyderms from poachers, Environment and Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain informed the Assembly on
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Open coalmine near Africa's first nature reserve divides community
Drive for an hour into the hills that lie behind South Africa’s wild eastern coast, and you will find a game park full of rhino and big cats, a sprawling town spread over dozens of summits and dry valleys,
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Rhinoceros new prey for Dudhwa park tigers?
Lucknow: Have Dudhwa tigers shunned their preferred prey - the cheetals and sambhars - to hunt the mighty rhinos? The killing of a 35-yearold female rhino by a tiger in Dudhwa national park and the subsequent eating of the carcass has raised a doubt if the behaviour of Dudhwa tigers is changing. The experts are not ready to buy the argument that the declining prey base is the reason why tigers are hunting and eating rhinos. "If tiger population in the park is increasing, prey base can not decline," said Tito Joseph from the wildlife protection society of India (WPSI). The tiger sneaked into the rhino rehabilitation area to kill the 35-year-old female rhino Pavitri, brought to Dudhwa in 1984 under the rhino rehabilitation programme.
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Javan rhinos face human incursions into their last remaining habitat
Only around 60 Javan rhinoceroses are believed to remain, all of them in Indonesia's Ujung Kulon National Park. Authorities have caught dozens of people hunting, gathering forest products and planting
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South African game reserve poisons rhino's horns to prevent poaching
A game reserve in South Africa has taken the radical step of poisoning rhino horns so that people risk becoming "seriously ill" if they consume them. Sabi Sand said it had injected a mix of parasiticides
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Why the Rhino can’t be protected in Assam?
These are ‘secret killers’ all right but when they go for the kill, they go for the one–horned rhinos (rhinoceros unicornis), not humans! In the killing fields of Kaziranga, poachers have shot dead more
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Nigeria: Dangote-Black Rhino solar power plant on the cards
The Nigerian-based conglomerate, Dangote Group has signed a Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with the Kano State government for a 100MW solar power plant. The signing ceremony took place last week at
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Kaziranga finds it hard to keep rhinos confined
With the rhino population sharply increasing in Kaziranga, authorities in Assam are having a tough time keeping them confined to the national park and other sanctuaries in the state. Of the three rhinos
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156 rhinos killed by poachers in last ten years in Assam
Altogether 156 rhinos were killed, including 40 during the current year alone, by poachers in Assam, a senior minister said. In 1999, only six rhinos were killed, minister for forest and environment
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Rhino census in Kaziranga National Park
KAZIRANGA: “The rhino census in the Kaziranga National Park will be held on March 24 and 25” officials said. The census, will be held in all the five ranges of the Kaziranga National Park. Due to the census, the KNP will remain closed from March 23 to 25. The five ranges of the KNP will be divided into 86 parts in view of rise in the number of the rhinos. As per last census, the population of the rhinos was 2,290. But during the last year 26 rhinos were killed by poachers.
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South Africa: Rhino Poached On North West Farm
The dehorned carcass of a rhino has been found on a farm near Koster, North West police said on Sunday. The carcass had been there for three weeks. "According to the owner, he last saw the rhino
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One more rhino poached in Kaziranga National Park
Poachers shot dead one more full-grown rhinoceros in Kaziranga National Park on Sunday night and took away its horn triggering fresh public protests against the unabated rhino poaching in the national
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Rhino Poaching continues to rock Kaziranga
Suspected poachers killed yet again a rhino in Kaziranga National Park on Sunday and axed off its horn, which has taken the death toll of rhinos in past 47 days in Assam to 10. The park authorities, who seem to have been groping in dark about the nexus of poachers, said that forest guards spotted a bullet-ridden body of a male mature rhino near Kawoimari forest camp in Bagori range of the park on Sunday morning.
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Kaziranga rhinos stray out, face threat from poachers
Two adult rhinos have strayed out of Kaziranga National Park and are now under serious threat from poachers in a remote area located on the banks of the Brahmaputra on Tuesday. Forest staff said the areas
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Threatened one-horned rhinos regaining paradise!
The century-old one-horned Asiatic rhino habitat in Terai Arc is turning into rehabilitation zone for the threatened species. Enthused by the success of the first phase of the Rhino Reintroduction Programme