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 …
Tiger Reserve status accorded for the 1.40 lakh hectares of Sathyamangalam with 90,000 hectares as core zone is a shot in the arm for conservation of rare flora and fauna besides combating the pressures of poaching as the Sathyamangalam valley is on the State border. Welcoming the decision of the …
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has taken up the investigation into the spurt in rhino poaching in the State. State Forest and Environment Minister Rockybul Hussain told mediapersons today that the Department of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pension of Government of India had sent a communication informing the former …
NAIROBI: Kenya plans to bolster current lenient sentences for convicted wildlife poachers or ivory smugglers in a bid to stamp out a spike in elephant killings, the government said Saturday. "We intend to fight poachers at all levels to save our elephants," government spokesman Muthui Kariuki said in a statement. …
A game reserve in South Africa has taken the radical step of poisoning rhino horns so that people risk becoming "seriously ill" if they consume them. Sabi Sand said it had injected a mix of parasiticides and indelible pink dye into more than 100 rhinos' horns over the past 18 …
Guwahati: One more translocated rhino was poached in Manas National Park in western Assam bordering Bhutan Himalayas. Forest officials informed that the poachers cut away the horn of the animal after killing it in Kahitema Beat of Bansbari Range of the Park on Tuesday. It happened to be fourth translocated …
Guwahati: One more translocated rhino was poached in Manas National Park in western Assam bordering Bhutan Himalayas. Forest officials informed that the poachers cut away the horn of the animal after killing it in Kahitema Beat of Bansbari Range of the Park on Tuesday. It happened to be fourth translocated …
Expressing concern over the killing of peacocks in the state, the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau has asked police to take stern action against the poachers. Increased poaching of peacock for feather is posing a serious threat to the national bird in the region, Special Officer of the Wildlife Crime Control …
Big Cats Come Out Of Hiding More Often To Quench Thirst Bangalore: As summer peaks, the state forest department has something important to contend with — vulnerability of big cats in Project Tiger areas.With soaring temperature, they come out of hiding often to quench their thirst at water holes, rendering …
These are ‘secret killers’ all right but when they go for the kill, they go for the one–horned rhinos (rhinoceros unicornis), not humans! In the killing fields of Kaziranga, poachers have shot dead more than a dozen rhinos this year. Last year, they had killed 21 of them. If the …
Guwahati: Kaziranga National Park’s rhino population has risen by 39 in the 11 months till March 2013 despite the growing number of poaching cases. Forest and environment minister Rockybul Hussain on Tuesday said, “In the last estimation done in April 2012, the rhino population was 2,290. In the next 11 …
The Gujarat Government has claimed that there has been no poaching of Asiatic Lions in the Gir Sanctuary in the Saurashtra region of the state in the past two years. The Minister of State for Forest and Environment told the state Assembly in a written reply that a series of …
Jorhat: Kaziranga National Park authorities launched a rhino census on Sunday. The two-day exercise will be conducted in all the five ranges of the park — Kohora, Bagori, Burapahar, Agoratoli and Biswanathghat. More than 250 personnel from the state forest department, NGOs and media groups have been engaged in the …
Ahmedabad: A total of 92 lions have died in the last two years in Saurashtra region. Of these, 83 died natural deaths while the remaining nine died of accidental causes, like falling into open wells. Minister of state for forest and environment Govind Patel told the House in a written …
Ninety-two Asiatic lions have died, including 83 of natural death, in the past two years in Gujarat’s Saurashtra region while there has been no case of poaching. In a written reply to a question asked by Congress MLA from Lathi, Bavku Unghad, Minister of State for Forest and Environment, Govind …
KAZIRANGA: “The rhino census in the Kaziranga National Park will be held on March 24 and 25” officials said. The census, will be held in all the five ranges of the Kaziranga National Park. Due to the census, the KNP will remain closed from March 23 to 25. The five …
Armed ivory poachers are reported to have killed 86 elephants in less than a week, including pregnant females and calves Poachers in south-west Chad have killed at least 86 elephants including 33 pregnant females in less than a week, in a potentially devastating blow to one of central Africa's last …
Hunters have slaughtered 3,500 reindeer on a British island near Antarctica to try to get rid of the animals that were brought from Norway a century ago and are an increasing threat to native wildlife. The reindeer on South Georgia were corralled into pens and slaughtered by a 16-strong team, …
New Delhi: Delhi is not close to any of the tiger belts of the country, yet it figures among the five hotspots in India connected to big cat poaching, says a report by a global wildlife trade monitoring network and WWF. Tiger part seizures in the capital are predominantly of …
‘Friends of Elephants’ group launched The support of local community residing in the areas bordering forests was vital to prevent human-elephant conflict, District Forest Officer V. Thirunavukkarasu said here on Sunday. While several measures had been initiated by the Government, it was only with the help of villagers living in …
The Kaziranga National Park, abode of one-horned Indian rhino and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Assam has been facing a stiff challenge in keeping poachers at bay primarily because of growing number of settlements of suspected illegal migrants from Bangladesh around the park’s core area. Poachers have been virtually …
