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 …
In order to sustain a sound tiger population, the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has issued orders to declare 600-1,200 square kilometres as inviolate areas for all the tiger reserves in the country. In all, an area of 32,578.78 sq km has been notified by 16 tiger states as …
Last year was dreadful for African elephants. This year may be worse. IT IS a bad time to be an elephant, particularly in Africa. Almost 24 tonnes of illegally harvested ivory were seized by investigators in 2011—the largest haul since records began in 1990 and more than twice the amount …
BANGKOK: Thai authorities seized more than 200 live animals, including tigers and lions among other rare species, in a raid on an illegal wildlife supplier, police said. "The owner cannot provide legal documents for the five tigers, so he was charged with violating the Wild Animal Preservation and Protection law," …
Cameroon's military has been called in to Bouba Ndjida National Park to take on foreign poachers that have slaughtered hundreds of elephants for their ivory, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Reports vary, but between 200-480 elephants have been killed in recent weeks in the park by …
The current hunting season of Siberian ducks proved to be a wild-goose chase for the hunters, as negligible number of migratory birds came to Chitral this season compared to past. Talking to this correspondent here, several hunters said that they had not seen such a dull hunting season before, as …
The Assam forest department has set up a team of wildlife experts to look into the frequent incidents of leopard straying into the residential locality of Guwahati and claimed that the tiger population is increasing in Assam. Informing that Assam may have the highest number of tigers soon, Assam forest …
Camera trapping method has been used for the first time in the ongoing tiger census in the Namdapha National Park in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh. “This is the first time the camera trapping method has been used for tiger estimation in Namdapha. All past tiger census were carried out …
Three days after a mob stormed into the core area of Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) threatening the field staff to go on a hunting spree, the park officials on Friday arrested as many as 35 poachers. Fifteen guns and animal meat were also seized from their possession. Sleuths from three …
One of India's iconic tiger reserves is emblematic of its efforts to save the big cat Preserving India's wild tigers has become a popular cause today. Most people might never see a wild tiger, but they fully support measures to save it. They are aware that, in spite of several …
Poachers have killed more than 200 elephants in Cameroon in just six weeks, in a "massacre" fuelled by Asian demand for ivory. A local government official said heavily armed poachers from Chad and Sudan had decimated the elephant population of Bouba Ndjida National Park in Cameroon's far north in a …
Poachers have killed more than 200 elephants in Cameroon in just six weeks, in a "massacre" fuelled by Asian demand for ivory. A local government official said heavily armed poachers from Chad and Sudan had decimated the elephant population of Bouba Ndjida National Park in Cameroon's far north in a …
JAIPUR: Tracking of tigers through radio collars at Sariska Tiger Reserve will soon become passe as the wildlife department plans to monitor the activities of tigers and other animals through global positioning system (GPS). Apart from the tigers, activities of forest guards and officials could also be monitored, too, by …
JAIPUR: When the first male tiger ST-1 was airlifted from the Ranthambore National Park to be relocated to the Sariska tiger reserve in June 2008, the dust settled over the matter faster than the tiger acclimatized to its new surroundings. But the captivating film, Tiger Dynasty made for BBC by …
The Cabinet yesterday added six birds to the list of protected wild animals in Bhutan under the Forest and Nature Conservation Act. This, forestry officials said, was the first change since the Act’s introduction in 1995, taking the total number of protected wild animals to 30 different species. The bird …
Wildlife activists said on Thursday that poachers had slaughtered at least 200 elephants in the past five weeks in Bouba Ndjida National Park. The International Fund for Animal Welfare called the scale of the killings unprecedented, and urged the government to take action. The group said that many orphaned elephant …
The study, worth Nu 2M, World Wildlife Fund officials said would focus on the snow leopard population and their places of existence to help prioritise the best areas for conservation. WWF conservation director Vijay Moktan said there were no studies done at the park nor were there any local expert …
Bangladesh and other South Asian countries will jointly implement a project for endangered wildlife conservation by preventing illegal trade of wild animals and ensuring better management. The five-year “Strengthening Regional Cooperation for Wildlife Protection in Asia Project” was launched at Hotel Sonargaon in Dhaka yesterday. Bangladesh is the first to …
While the Panna Tiger Reserve (PTR) has now been repopulated with translocated tigers and tigresses, the promised CBI probe into the disappearance of the entire population before 2009 is yet to be ordered even after the PMO’s intervention. Despite repeated reminders over the last five months, PTR’s field director R …
Three years after the entire tiger population of the Panna Tiger Reserve was decimated, the Madhya Pradesh government has neither been able to fix responsibility for the disaster, nor has it handed over the enquiry to the Central Bureau of Investigation inspite of requests from the Ministry of Environment and …
Surat: Of the 145 endangered bird species in India, Gujarat is home to at least 35 of them. Thus it is important that researchers and ornithologists and people from all walks of life join hands in bird conservation, speakers said at a recently held seminar in Navsari on ‘Birds of …
