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 Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation has awarded a grant to World Wildlife Fund (WWF) for a bold initiative to help Nepal double the population of wild tiger by 2022, the next Chinese Year of the Tiger. The award was presented on the third anniversary of the historic Global Tiger Summit. The …
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 where the rhinos are sheltering are vulnerable to attacks by poachers. "Staff from both …
Poachers killed a number of deer at Dublar Char area of the Sundarbans during the Rashmela Hindu festical in the last three days, despite various preventive measures taken by the Forest Department and the law enforcement agencies including Coastguard. In a drive on Friday midnight, a special team of West …
Assam will set up four wildlife police stations to exclusively deal with the problem of rhino poaching and other wildlife crimes. The jurisdiction of these special police stations would be over the Kazairanga National Park, the Manas National Park, the Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park and the Pabitora Wildlife Sanctuary. …
Kozhikode: The state forest department has launched a major participatory initiative to make the state’s 590-km coastline turtle-friendly. The social forestry wing of the department will conduct a comprehensive GPS-enabled field survey along the state’s coastline to identify the nesting sites of the endangered Olive Ridley turtles which visit the …
As many as 149 species of birds were spotted from seven sites by 78 birders at the seventh Kerala Bird Race held in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday. The annual event was held from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. in wetlands, forests, and villages in and around Thiruvananthapuram. The total count (149) …
Two rhinos—a mother and a calf—were killed by poachers in Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park, about 150 km from here, on Saturday evening. The poachers chopped off the horn of one of the animals. Forest officials said that the poachers gunned down the rhinos at the Hajar Bigha area after …
JNDP: Following a tip off, Jigme Dorji National Park officials and police in Gasa caught two poachers with a Monal pheasant and two musk pods on the night of November 2. The men, 28-year-old, and 18-year-old from Baylakha in Wangdue, were caught around 9pm above Gasa dzong, while they were …
The illegal killing of rhinos in South Africa, home to about 90 percent of the world's population of the endangered animals, is rising toward a record as poachers increasingly target private game farms. Bloomberg's Franz Wild reports. (Source: Bloomberg) “Extreme poverty encourages poaching,” Chissano said in an interview in the …
The Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park lost the distinction of becoming the "zero-poaching" protected area in the state as the first incident of rhino poaching was reported this year on Saturday night. A male rhino was killed by poachers who also chopped off its horn at Nichlabari area in Sonitpur …
Tourists and nature enthusiasts have started thronging the two primary habitat of one-horned rhinoceros in Assam — Kaziranga National Park and Pabitora Wildlife Sanctuary — which have been thrown open for visitors for this season. Even as tourists from within the country and abroad flock the Kaziranga park, which is …
Due to their secretive habits, predicting the pattern of spatial distribution of small carnivores has been typically challenging, yet for conservation management it is essential to understand the association between this group of animals and environmental factors. We applied maximum entropy modeling (MaxEnt) to build distribution models and identify environmental …
Poachers slaughter rare species of wild animals and wild birds in forest reserves secretly and the flesh of those animals is sold to tourist hotels in the vicinity. These poachers hunt jungle fowls (walikukula) too and sell a kilo of their meat at Rs. 1000/- to tourist hotels. Athik Nazeer, …
Representatives from Kyrgyzstan and 11 other Central and South Asian countries on Thursday made a historic pledge to protect and conserve snow leopards, also called "ghost of the mountain" because of their elusive nature, and their habitat in the high-mountain landscapes of Asia. Joined by conservation experts from around the …
BHUBANESWAR: As many as 20 VHF towers were damaged in the October 12 cyclone in different wildlife sanctuaries of the state, leading to disruption of communication. The wildlife authorities said they are facing difficulties to repair them because of fresh spells of rain. VHF towers were damaged in Chilika, Bhitarkanika, …
With several tiger poaching cases being unearthed, the interstate meeting of wildlife and territorial forest officials from Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday has strongly pushed for a centralized data bank of wildlife criminals and poachers at the national level. The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) is already in process …
Destruction of its habitat and poaching are the key problems Once widely spotted across 11 States, the Great Indian Bustard is currently listed under the category of Critically Endangered birds, in the 2013 ‘Threatened Bird’ list by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). There are less than 250 …
Standing in his flatbed truck, Marc Goss touches "take off" on his iPad 3 and a $300 AR Drone whirs into the air as his latest weapon to fight elephant poachers around Kenya's Maasai Mara National Reserve. "It's an arms race," said Goss, whose green khaki clothing shields him from …
Waking up to the threat posed to native wildlife and migratory birds by indiscriminate hunting and poaching, the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government has at last imposed a blanket ban on hunting for three years. The director of AJK wildlife and fisheries department, Chaudhry Mohammad Razzaq, told Dawn here …
Perturbed over the rampant killing of rhinos in Assam, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi wondered that if the government could bring militancy under control, why not the poachers! He said that laws would be made more deterrent against poachers in the coming days. “We will bring in harsher laws against poachers,” …
