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 …
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 Wednesday. Poachers killed and dehorned 41 rhinos in the State, majority of them in the Kaziranga National Park in 2013. Poachers …
The White House announced a new ban on sales of elephant ivory within the United States on Tuesday, part of a plan aimed at cracking down on trafficking of wildlife that is threatening some species, including the African elephant, with extinction. The United States has banned imports of ivory since …
With new tigers, some of them man-eaters, being sighted everyday in west UP, the debate around tiger corridors has gained more immediacy than ever. Human encroachment in and around 13 corridors of Terai region - referred to as the Terai Arc Landscape -- is taking a heavy toll on the …
Poaching of migratory birds continues unabated in different lakes and rivers in East Champaran district in this winter despite warnings issued by the police, administration and forest and environment officials against killing and trapping of winged visitors. The bird catchers sale these birds openly in different markets and by the …
The Ranthambore reserve is embarking on phase IV of tiger monitoring as part of National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) protocol for all tiger reserves for a national figure on big cats. Flush with a baby boom since the past couple of years but equally at the receiving end for deaths …
To count the number of migratory and local birds in the Yamuna river in Farah area of Mathura, ornithologists and a group of Yamuna eco-scholars participated in the four km long march on the occasion of World Wetland Day, on Sunday. World Wetland day is observed on February 2 every …
Clandestine poaching in Porvorim and outlying areas through the use of cable wire snares was exposed once again after animal activists rescued a dog from a trap and cleared two more near defence colony on Sunday. The three traps had been set up by unknown persons on the slope of …
Barely a week after poachers killed an adult female rhino at Kaziranga National Park, another rhino was killed by poachers in the park's Agoratoli forest range on Saturday. Poachers shot dead the pachyderm and chopped off its horn before forest staff reached the spot. This is the fourth rhino killed …
Import, transit, research and development and introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) capable of reproducing in the natural environment will become illegal in Bhutan with the enactment of the biosafety bill. Read more in this January 2014 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Bhutan. ENVIRONMENT The grant …
BHUBANESWAR: Odisha government has sanctioned Rs 2.25 crore for conservation of blackbucks and freshwater turtles under a state plan scheme of wildlife conservation and protection. The wildlife wing will implement it, said sources. "The conservation of blackbucks would include securing their habitat. Mainly, we want to keep their population intact …
Wildlife conservation efforts, particularly for the common leopard in the hills of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), have had little effect as more than 60 common leopards have been illegally hunted in the past four years. According to game wardens in the AJK Wildlife Department, seven common leopards were killed …
The wildlife in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) is on the brink of extinction, as illegal logging and poaching go side by side amid lax monitoring by forest department. The critically endangered species are rare yaks (nilgai), tiger, panther, civet cats, pangolin, vulture, gibbon (ulluk), baboon, barking deer and samber, …
The centre has released the first ever financial sanction to Amangarh tiger reserve. The sanction of Rs 24 lakh will be utilized for the management of the reserve. Six persons have been killed in area adjoining the reserve since December 29, in attacks by a stray feline. Though, the big …
Fifty-three cases of tiger poaching and 160 cases of killing of leopard are being tried in various courts in Madhya Pradesh, some for over four decades. A case of tiger death registered on May 17, 1975 in Kanha National Park in Mandla district is still pending decision in the court. …
The country lost 63 tigers in 2013 with Karnataka alone losing 16 big cats. The data released by the National Tiger Conservation Authority states that poachers accounted for the death of 48 tigers in different parts of the country last year. In comparison, 72 tiger deaths were reported in 2012. …
Forest officials destroyed 121 snares in Thimphu region in 2013, and 18 in Bumthang Conservation: While on the one hand, the country’s wildlife conservation policies have cost many farmers’ their livelihood, on the other hand, some farmers involved in rampant poaching of wild animals undermines conservation efforts. Records maintained with …
Poaching was the cause of most deaths, says National Tiger Conservation Authority The country lost 63 of its wild tigers in 2013. The first tiger death of the year was reported from the South Brahmapuri forest range of Chandrapur district, Maharashtra, on January 6, 2013 caused by suspected poaching. The …
The Gujarat government will soon undertake a census of the Great Indian Bustard, one of the most critically endangered flying bird species in the world, to ascertain its exact population. "The count of the Great Indian Bustard will be undertaken in January-February to know its population," Gujarat principal chief wildlife …
