CHENNAI: Navin Srinivas, software professional and a volunteer on a night patrol last week along the Injambakkam beach, found a female turtle dead with its belly open. Closer to the city, a young volunteer for Students' Sea Turtle Conservation Network (SSTCN), found a few dead hatchlings near Elliots beach.
The Ranthambhore National Park in Rajasthan's Sawai Madhopur district will form the venue for a unique conservation conclave when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will set with expert conservationist
LUCKNOW: Banke has his clan growing. The dusky old rhino, now 30 plus, has seen his fourth generation set in. When his female partner Rajeshwari gave birth to a calf on Friday (September 11), a new hope dawned for the rhinos in Dudhwa.
Shillong: The State Forest department has requested the Central Government to direct the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun to conduct a detailed survey of the latest tiger population in the State. Talking to The Shillong Times here on Sunday, Principal Chief Conservator of Forest VK Nautiyal said the State had sought the detailed tiger survey few months back and the department was awaiting response from the Central Government.
Notwithstanding Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call for conservation and to project India's eco-sensitive stance, the government's call for culling of "vermin" animals has caused a blot on its image abroad,
The protected areas of Himachal Pradesh in the Indian Himalayan Region are facing high anthropogenic pressure due to grazing rights. Habitat degradation coupled with overexploitation of sensitive biodiversity elements has caused habitat alteration and rapid decrease in their populations.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature announced Thursday that it put the Japanese eel on its list of species at risk of extinction. The Switzerland-based IUCN placed the Japanese eel in
To save a bird, its nest will now be sold. In an unusual conservation strategy, the National Board of Wildlife (NBWL) has delisted the Edible Nest Swiftlet, a cave-nesting bird found in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, from the Wildlife Protection Act (WPA).
The Nature Conservation Foundation, in collaboration with the Forest department, has begun a study to ascertain the population density of leopards in the State, as Karnataka lacks scientific data on leopards.
In a move widely expected to accelerate the pace of conservation in Assam State, the State Government has notified three new wildlife sanctuaries (WLSs)
Despite the twin instances of a low-flying chopper carrying a ruling BJD MP in Satkosia Tiger Reserve in violation of the Wildlife Protection Act having triggered a major controversy, the Odisha Government
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Vast tracts of Borneo yet to be biologically explored KUALA LUMPUR: A lungless frog, a frog that flies and a slug that shoots love darts are among 123 new species found in Borneo since 2007 in a project to conserve one of the oldest rain forests in the world.
The orangutan is threatened by poaching and habitat destruction
In order to sustain a sound tiger population, the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has issued orders to declare 600-1,200 square kilometres as inviolate areas for all the tiger reserves in the country. In all, an area of 32,578.78 sq km has been notified by 16 tiger states as critical tiger habitat under Section 38 (5) of the Wildlife Protection Act. These states include Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh,
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Sariska, which a few years ago was discovered to be the grave of the endangered tiger rather than its sanctuary, is now ready to adopt the big cat again, possibly within a month. The tiger would come from Ranthambhore reserve currently experiencing a boom in the population of the animal, chief wildlife warden of Rajasthan R N Mehrotra told UNI. "Initially we would put just one animal, and its companion would be introduced a few months later, and this was being done to see how the newcomer was finding its new habitat,' he said.
Protection of the tiger has become an international slogan, especially with the initiation of the Global Tiger Forum, in New Delhi, in 1993. However, the apathy of most governments towards nature and natural resources, and the machinations of various commercial and industrial interest groups are major obstacles to the protection of the tiger.
Opposition members in the Assembly today alleged apathetic attitude of the State Government towards protecting forest and wildlife.
Karnataka will soon come up with a world-class zoo near heritage site Hampi by relocating the Bellary zoo, officials said. The zoo in Bellary would be relocated to a new site, next to Hampi, in Kamalapura reserve forest in Hospet Taluk as conditions for animals and birds are not ideal there, Karnataka's Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests M N Jayakumar told PTI.
