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 …
A fresh report on the status of Tanzania's wildlife sector cited corruption as one of the reasons behind the increasing incidents of wildlife poaching in the East African nation. The 82-page report, which was released here on Monday, came after a study carried out by the Arusha NGO Network (ANGONET) …
Almost a million birds were illegally killed in just two months on a British military base in Cyprus last year, according to the RSPB. Dr Tim Stowe, the RSPB’s international director, called on the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to do more to stop local poachers, who reportedly took 15,000 birds …
The greatest threat to China's wild elephants is no longer poaching but habitat destruction. Rain forests are cleared to make way for rubber plantations. China editor Carrie Gracie reports. Chinese Forestry Police: "They shouldn't cut down the forest just to make money"
NAIROBI - Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday set ablaze 15 tonnes of contraband ivory and vowed to intensify the ongoing war against wildlife crimes in the country. Kenyatta burnt the ivory stockpile in the presence of dignitaries from government, foreign missions and conservation groups during the occasion to mark …
Number of tigers died in 2014 has increased to 78, due to both poaching and natural reasons, parliament was informed on Tuesday. In 2013, number cases of tiger death were 68 and in 2012 it was at 89, enviornment minister Prakash Javadekar said in a written reply to a question …
Wildlife crime worth as much as $10 billion annually threatens the existence of mammals, birds and trees ranging from rhinos to Spix’s macaws and rosewood, the United Nations said. “Wildlife and forest crime is one of the fastly growing forms of transnational crime,” Yury Fedotov, executive director of the United …
China’s booming e-commerce websites have carried thousands of advertisements for illegal wildlife products including ivory, rhino horn and tiger bone, a wildlife trade monitoring network said on Tuesday. More than half of such products offered online in recent months are ivory, the British group Traffic found in a survey of …
(Reuters) - Kenya burnt 15 tonnes of ivory on Tuesday and promised to destroy all of its stockpile this year, the latest step in its campaign against elephant poaching. Poaching has surged in the last few years across sub-Saharan Africa, where gangs kill elephants and rhinos to feed Asian demand …
According to highly-placed sources in the environment ministry, the increase in wildlife crime involving lesser-known species will now be tracked by Interpol, jointly with the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), the wildlife intelligence arm of the ministry. Among the major species whose poaching and illegal trade in the international market …
The two animals were discovered at a waterhole near Chipinge, 400 kilometres from Harare, news agency Sapa reported. Their carcasses were found before poachers had time to completely remove the horns, which had already been partly cut. These are the first rhinos to be poisoned after more than 100 elephants …
Assam Forest Minister Atuwa Munda decided to ignore an urgent summons from Assam Governor PB Acharya to meet him at the Raj Bhavan here yesterday citing prior engagement, but the director of Kaziranga National Park (KNP) MK Yadava had to rush to the Raj Bhavan to face the ire of …
China will impose a one-year ban on the importation of carved ivory items acquired after July 1, 1975. The ban, which took effect on Thursday, was announced by the State Forestry Administration, China's wildlife watchdog. It only affects ivory acquired after the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of …
Unarmed Black Mambas recruited from local communities are guarding nature reserve inside the Greater Kruger national park The battle against the poaching that kills a rhino every seven hours in South Africa has acquired a new weapon: women. The Black Mambas are all young women from local communities, and they …
A new report has traced the Chinese markets where raw tusks from elephants killed in Africa are turned into statues and other traditional carvings. China maintains a legal ivory market, but this is clearly overwhelmed by illegal ivory markets spattered across big cities like Beijing and Shanghai. "Law enforcement has …
With rhino populations dwindling due to illegal hunting for their horns, poachers have now begun targeting vulnerable baby rhinos instead. In 2014, a record 1,215 rhinos died from poaching - a 21 percent increase from the previous record high set the year before. As a result, several rhino subspecies are …
With a view to checking the poaching of tigers, the Wildlife Conservation Trust, in association with global body, Panthera, is conducting a 'Site Security Training' for officials of the Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF) in two tiger reserves in Maharashtra. The workshop that got underway today at the Pench and …
Alarmed by frequent incidents of rhino poaching in north Bengal, the West Bengal government has decided to adopt a two-pronged approach to deal with the menace. First, the government intends to create a seven-member body with members drawn from the Sashastra Seema Bal, Border Security Force, CID and West Bengal …
NAGPUR: The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) has firmed up plans to coordinate with the Enforcement Directorate (ED) while dealing with poaching cases. A meeting of WCCB's central region was held recently at Raipur, Chhattisgarh, where representatives of ED also took part. The agency mooted that it can take up …
Dudhwa reserve administration has sought help from the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) to increase vigil along the UP-Nepal border to check tiger poaching. The decision comes after the arrest of 10 poachers this year. After poachers' arrest, Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) is directly coordinating with UP STF and Pilibhit …
State animal Chinkara, the state bird Great Indian Bustard and the national bird Peacock can all be offered over dinner in Rajasthan. While at the face of it only Salman Khan is known to be infamous for the banned royal sport, hunting of the endangered species carries on unabated in …
