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 …
Though there has been an increase of 1,492 sqkm in State’s covered forest area since 2009, the State has recorded death of as many as 1,194 wild animals over the same period due to various reasons with the elephant toll recording the highest at 354 followed by 13 leopards and …
Nagpur: Though Maharashtra has become the first state to digitize the trial court orders and put it in public domain, a review of judgments delivered in the last six years shows that of the 147 court orders under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 (WPA), only 17 have recorded convictions, or …
Officials and experts from 13 tiger range countries including India are discussing ways to combat poaching, a multi-billion dollar industry, during a regional symposium that kicked off here this week. The five-day symposium entitled “Towards zero poaching in Asia” is aimed at promoting the launch of Asia-wide operations to combat …
Officials and experts from 13 tiger range countries including India are discussing ways to combat poaching - a multi-billion dollar industry - during a regional symposium that kicked off here this week. The five-day symposium entitled "Towards zero poaching in Asia" is aimed at promoting the launch of Asia-wide operations …
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said a Rhino Protection Force with more than 1,200 personnel would be raised to protect one-horned rhinoceros against poachers. Besides, the National Investigation Agency’s (NIA) help would be sought to bust the international rhino-poaching racket. Attending a review meeting on the anti-poaching measures and other …
The protection force will have more than 1,200 personnel In a move to strengthen conservation efforts of the one-horned rhinoceros at Kaziranga National Park (KNP) in Assam, the state government has decided to soon raise a special protection force, termed as 'Rhino Protection Force', to keep vigil in the famed …
(Reuters) - Conservationists must try to reduce the demand for tiger parts in China as part of a campaign to save the big cats, wildlife experts warned at an anti-poaching conference in Kathmandu. Thousands of tigers once roamed forests in South and Southeast Asia but numbers have plummeted to about …
Nepal excels at zero poaching of tigers while India is the "tiger heavyweight" in the region in terms of recovering the number of the cats, according to organisers of an anti-poaching summit here. Nepal, which has pioneered in conserving tigers, is hosting an international anti-poaching conference beginning tomorrow. The five-day …
THE incidence of poaching has reduced by half from 2013, latest government figures show. The figures are expected to drop further after Kenya Wildlife Service clarified that no animal has been poached this year. This came after wildlife activist Dr Paula Kahumbu early this week tweeted by mistake that two …
The British government has donated Sh150 million towards wildlife conservation and fighting poaching. "We are concerned by the sharp increase in cases of international crime targeting elephants and rhinos, with Asia been the destination," said High Commissioner Christian Turner. He was addressing the press after opening a conference of conservation …
LUCKNOW: A gang of eight poachers was held from forest range in Pilibhit district in an operation lasting 48 hours. Tiger bones, teeth and meat were recovered from the gang members who had been active in Pilibhit Tiger Reserve for the past 15 months. As some strong leads about international …
The number of rhinos killed in South Africa last year jumped by nearly a fifth, marking a new record for poaching, driven by Asian demand for rhino horn which is more valuable by weight than gold. A total of 1,215 rhinos were killed in 2014, statistics published by the Environment …
South Africa said on Thursday that it had moved around 100 rhinos to unspecified neighboring states as part of efforts to stem the illicit slaughter of the animals for their horns. Home to around 80 percent of the global rhino population, South Africa is at the epicenter of a poaching …
About 20 percent of the world's fishing catch is taken illegally by poachers, experts estimate, but a new satellite tracking system launched on Wednesday aims to crack down on the industrial-scale theft known as "pirate fishing." Run by the British technology firm Satellite Applications Catapult and backed by the Pew …
Even though the government has taken various measures to protect Bengal Tigers in the Sundarbans, its poaching is on the rise with 49 being killed in last 14 years (2001-2014), according to forest department data. Among the 49 tigers, 17 were killed in the Sundarbans east zone of the forest …
Thousands of tribal people allegedly evicted from a tiger reserve in central India that inspired Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book must be allowed to return to their ancestral forest homes, said an indigenous rights group. Around 450 families - totaling up to 3,000 people - from the Baiga and Gond …
CBI sleuths, probing poaching of rhinos in Assam (especially in the Kaziranga National Park), suspect that Northeast-based insurgent outfit Karbi People’s Liberation Tigers is actively involved in the barbaric act. It is suspected that members of the outfit — equipped with modern weaponry like mortars, AK-47, AK-56 and M20 guns …
Within days of the year’s first killing of a rhino at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, carcasses of two more rhinos have been found, their horns sawed off, authorities said on Sunday. On Jan 9, the poachers killed a one-horned rhino in Dhing in Nagaon district and escaped with …
122 tigers poached in the last five years Despite stringent measures to conserve tigers in protected reserves in the country, a report by National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has noted that tiger poaching incidents have continued in the country. According to data available on the NTCA website, 78 tigers were …
The ambitious India Rhino Vision 2020 (IRV2020) is heading in the right direction and there is no reason to doubt its success so far, said AC Das, Director of the Manas National Park cum Tiger Project. Talking to this Correspondent in his office chamber this afternoon, Das said though news …
