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 …
Poachers fish in the Beas, the Sutlej and other water bodies in the region while the authorities stand as mute spectators. Poaching is rampant in Gurdaspur, Pathankot, Hoshiapur, Kapurthala, Nawanshar and Jalandhar districts even though the government has imposed a complete ban on fishing from June 15 to August 15. …
Owning to security lapses, poaching has increased in Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve these days. Owing to lack of sufficient number of manpower to safeguard the only hunting reserve in the nation, poaching of rare and endangered animals has gone up sharply, according to the Hunting Reserve Office. Nine skin pieces of …
Two adult and three sub-adult tigers in Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve are “missing” while two adult carcasses have been found in the reserve since December last year. But the forest department is not worried. “They are wild animals and are free to stray,” is the department’s standard reply. In April this …
A team of forest officials on Thursday arrested three members of a poaching gang active in hunting the Great Indian Bustard(GIB) in Srianganagar area. The GIB is on the verge of extinction and is the state bird of Rajasthan. A four-wheeler (gypsy) and cartridges used for hunting have also been …
Barack Obama launched a new initiative against wildlife trafficking on Monday, using his executive authority to take action against an illegal trade that is fueling rebel wars and now threatens the survival of elephants and rhinoceroses. The initiative, announced as the president visited Tanzania on the final stop of his …
Advocating greater coordination between intelligence and enforcement agencies to curb illegal wildlife trading networks , the Central Bureau of Investigation Director Ranjit Sinha on Monday highlighted the agency’s role in detecting organised syndicates of poachers operating in Sariska Wildlife Park during 2002-05. Mr. Sinha, while inaugurating the Integrated Investigative Capacity …
Illegal wildlife trading networks have cross-border linkages and there is need for greater coordination between the intelligence and law enforcement agencies of different countries to deal with this threat, CBI Director Ranjit Sinha said here today. He said the CBI had played an important role in tackling poaching by revealing …
Incidence of wildlife poaching is on the rise in the southern States, said Ravi P. Singh, Secretary-General of World Wide Fund for Nature – India (WWF-I). Mr. Singh who was here recently told The Hindu that poaching of leopards in the southern States has increased. Since 2000, the Traffic, a …
Kaziranga: Flood waters have entered Kaziranga National Park forcing animals to take shelter on highlands and Park authorities are on alert to protect the wildlife from deluge and poachers. The flood waters have entered Burapahar and Bagori ranges of the world heritage site in upper Assam forcing the animals there …
Not only the translocation of lions to Chandraprabha wildlife sanctuary has failed but ten other translocations across the world have also failed, the latest one being the Indian Rhino's translocation in 2013. Atleast three incidents of translocation of lions have been taken up across the world including two in India …
AHMEDABAD: The international market value of lion bones range between $ 300 and $ 500 for every kilogram. The bones are used in China for traditional Chinese medicines. Lion bones are being used as substitutes for tiger bone potions, finds Empower Foundation, a Mumbai based NGO working on Sanjay Gandhi …
Census finds 24 big cats in Assam’s smallest national park, beating Corbett Orang has recorded the highest Royal Bengal tiger population ever with 24 tigers being found during the census carried out this year at the smallest national park in the state. The figure was made available exclusively to The …
Jaipur: Seventeen peacocks were found dead in Tonk’s Jalgaon forest area on Monday. The police registered an FIR on Tuesday suspecting that the peacocks were given poisonous grains by poachers. According to the police, some villagers who had gone to the forests on Monday spotted carcasses of as many as …
The Chitwan National Park has handed down prison sentences ranging from 10-15 years to a dozen people found guilty of being involved in poaching rhinos and trading their body parts. National park chief Kamal Jung Kunwar handed down sentences to Amar Bahadur Gurau, Mukti Gurau, Hiralal Mardaniya, Bishnu Bahadur Gurau, …
NAGPUR: Taking serious note of the TOI report on Thursday about suspected killing of 11 tigers in Vidarbha and neighbouring Madhya Pradesh in the last two months by organized poachers belonging to the notorious Baheliya community of Katni, the rattled National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) sought factual report from the …
Tiger poaching in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra seems to be on unabated going by the statements of two young poachers who were nabbed on June 6. The two have told officials that they and some other gangs have killed five tigers in the region in the past three months. Meanwhile, …
’’Trading of rhino horns is a highly organized crime. From local operators to a section of wildlife personnel in Assam are involved in this illegal business’’ The poachers who kill one horned rhinos in Assam make huge profit by selling their horns through agents located in countries like Myanmar, Vietnam, …
The decision of National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) to send a two-member team to Satkosia tiger sanctuary to study the feasibility of shifting the wild tiger, which fled Nandankana zoo a week ago, has left the zoo authorities bemused. "We are not sure how the team plans to go about …
A project created by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) that uses Raspberry Pi computers to curb the illegal poaching of rhinos in Kenya has been rewarded with a £500,000 prize from Google. The Global IT Challenge aims to award innovative uses of technology that "tackle some of the world's …
JAIPUR: The state action plan to prevent the dwindling population of the state bird, Great Indian Bustard (GIB), has finally got the stamp of approval and is ready to be implemented soon. Considering the importance of conservation of this critically endangered species, the 'Project Great Indian Bustard' has formally been …
