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 Wildlife Incident Support Team (WIST) has been deployed to Sri Lanka by the International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC) to help the country combat the rising incidents of poaching in the country. Secretary-General of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), John E. Scanlon has been …
Even as India is striving hard to save the big cats, the country has lost fifty tigers so far this year against 72 tiger deaths in 2012. Heading the list is Karnataka with the loss of 13 tigers till now, followed by eight in Maharashtra, seven in Uttarakhand and five …
Four species of animals which had apparently disappeared from the neglected Valmiki Tiger Reserve have been recently discovered there. These include the grey crab-eating mongoose, a yellow-throated marten, the Himalayan serow and the hoary-bellied squirrel. The Yellow-throated Marten is also called the honey dog because of its fondness for sweet …
Even as India is striving hard to save the big cats, the country has lost fifty tigers so far this year against 72 tiger deaths in 2012. Heading the list is Karnataka with the loss of 13 tigers till now, followed by eight in Maharashtra, seven in Uttarakhand and five …
“Loss of reproduction owing to disturbance on account of heavily-used infrastructure like highways” is one of the reasons for decline of tiger population, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan said in the Lok Sabha on Monday. She told Bhausaheb Wakchaure in a written reply that the general causes also include mortality of …
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) - India, an NGO, has contributed its mite to initiatives aimed at strengthening conservation at the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary (WWS) by providing patrolling and wireless equipment to the frontline staff of the sanctuary. Addressing a meet held in connection with giving away the equipment …
A section of locals are engaged in hunting of birds, especially herons, posing threat to the stock of the graceful creature of nature. A poacher sold five herons at Balapukur Bazar in Aditmari upazila of Lalmonirhat for Tk 150 to 200 each on Monday afternoon. “I trap the birds in …
The number of wild Royal Bengal tigers in Nepal has increased to 198, a 63.6 per cent rise in five years, a government survey of the big cats showed. The findings are crucial for the protection of endangered tigers facing the threat of extinction from poachers for the lucrative trade …
Poor rate of conviction and lack of political and administrative willpower is the biggest obstacle in checking wildlife trade and crime in the country, said experts gathered at the workshop on wildlife conservation held in Indore on Tuesday. Only three per cent of accused are convicted in wildlife crime cases …
Under attack for not cracking down on the use of tiger body parts in traditional medicine, China has finalized two separate agreements with India and Russia to step up protection of tigers and other endangered species, the state-media reported on Tuesday. China reached an agreement with India at a meeting …
Nepal's number of Royal Bengal tigers in the wild has soared 64 percent to 198 in just four years, according to a government survey released Monday. Experts attributed the rise to a crackdown on poaching as the government vowed to double the number of tigers in the wild by 2022. …
Nepal witnessed a record 63 percent growth in the tiger population in the last four years. A ‘scientific’ census conducted by the government in the last five moths shows the population of the endangered animals in Nepal shoot up from the 121 in 2009 to 198 this year. Experts attribute …
A recent tiger census at two organic roads has confirmed the extinction of striped-tigers in the far-west. The incident came to light after cameras installed in Kanchanpur’s Laljhadi and Kailali’s Basanta organic roads showed no footage of big cats this year. Meanwhile, cheetahs, bears and hyenas were captured in the …
Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan is all set to announce a CBI inquiry into tiger poaching cases unearthed in Vidarbha between October 2012 and May 2013. Gang of organized tiger poachers arrested in June first week by the forest and police officials in Mansar near Nagpur have confessed that their separate …
NAGPUR: With 46 tiger deaths in just 7 months this year in the country, most of them due to poaching and several shrouded in mystery, the Global Tiger Day on Monday will be celebrated under a dark shadow. Looking at the startling revelations by organized tiger poachers, arrested recently near …
With special emphasis on saving tigers of the Sundarbans, Bangladesh Forest Department will today launch a new Wildlife Crime Control Unit (WCCU) to stop illegal wildlife trade and related crimes. WCCU will have seven teams, one for each of the regions of Dhaka, the Sundarbans, Sylhet, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Habiganj and …
World Tiger Day would be observed today in the country as elsewhere in the world underlining the need for protecting the endangered tiger species against total extinction. Some 41 tigers were killed and 11 died normally in last 17 years in the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, said forest …
Nepal Army (NA) and Sagarmatha National Park Office have formed a Joint Action Unit with an objective of controlling poaching in the Sagarmatha National Park area, state-owned news agency RSS reports. Earlier, NA and the Park Administration had separate cells to look after activities in the Park area and kept …
While the leopard is one of the most widely recognized cats after tigers, its days may be numbered in Madhya Pradesh. Thanks to poaching, retaliatory killing, conflicts with farmers followed by weak investigations, the spotted feline may soon qualify for 'vulnerable'status. Within 24 hours of a leopard's death in Panna …
Here is the story of a man who started as a poacher, but the risks involved in illegal hunting and the helplessness of innocent animals turned him into a conservationist. Maheswar Basumatary was forced into poaching animals in the 90s when as a 19-year-old he faced the daunting prospect of …
