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 …
They are for educators and institutions that would like to campaign for the cause India is the global host of the International Year of Forests, declared by the United Nations, and there is lot that we could do to protect our forests and animals. This is what the volunteers of …
The musty jaguar pelts on display at a government office in Buenos Aires are a grim reminder of the big cat's precarious existence in Argentina's northern forests. The Iguazu waterfalls that border Paraguay and Brazil mark what is now the outer limit of the jaguar's range. Just 50 of the …
In the wake of widespread concern over the contents and implication of the proposed Wildlife (Conservation) Bill 2011, a parliamentary sub-committee yesterday decided to find out its loopholes discussing with experts. At a meeting held at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban yesterday, the sub-committee came up with the decision to submit …
The U.S. government has proposed lifting federal protection from wolves in the state of Wyoming which would allows unregulated killing of the animals in most of the state. The proposal under a state wildlife management plan would require Wyoming to maintain at least 150 wolves statewide, including packs that roam …
Sundarban, the world’s largest mangrove forest, has become unsafe for many animals especially for tigers, deer and crocodiles due to rampant and indiscriminate animal poaching in the last few years. Various groups of people have long been engaged in hunting tigers, deer and crocodiles for smuggling skin to different countries. …
The State Forest and Wildlife Department has submitted a 10-year Tiger Conservation Plan (2011-12 to 2020-21) to the National Tiger Conservation Authority for conservation of the tigers and the biodiversity of the Parambikulam Tiger Reserve. The cost of the conservation plan is estimated at Rs.58.8 crore. The plan is “to …
Kohima: The Pangti Village Council (PVC) under Wokha district of Nagaland has declared a herd of wild elephants that has made the village its home as an asset of the village. A press note issued by the PVC Chairman R Openmomo Jami and Secretary N Phankao Ngullie said the herd …
The forest staff at the Panna Tiger Reserve was working in close nexus with the poachers and this ultimately led to the big cat disappearing from the area in 2008, reveals an internal report of the Madhya Pradesh forest department. The confidential report prepared after an inquiry was ordered into …
The country’s biggest tiger reserve, Nagarjuna Sagar Srisailam, can now flaunt some extra stripes. Camera traps have recently photographed females with healthy cubs, and adult males not seen before in these parts, setting pulses racing. Forest officials estimate there at least 70 adults and 20 cubs in the reserve now. …
GOLAGHAT, Sept 21 – The Kaziranga National Park authority under the leadership of ranger Md Ikramul Mazid recently carried out raids against rhino-poachers and undertook strict observation and necessary steps against the poachers at Kaziranga National Park. It may be mentioned here that on August 3, the poachers had taken …
The population of Kashmir Markhor has been decreasing rapidly in Tochi game reserve, situated at a stone`s throw from the district headquarters of Chitral, owing to ruthless hunting, residents of the area say. Miraj Hussain Mughal, a social worker from Seen village near the game reserve, told Dawn that the …
Elephant poaching and the ivory trade remain high on the agenda at meetings of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Well-informed debates require robust estimates of trends, the spatial distribution of poaching, and drivers of poaching. We present an analysis of trends …
Hong Kong customs officers have seized a large shipment of African ivory hidden in a container that arrived by sea from Malaysia. Hong Kong government officials said Tuesday that officers found 794 pieces of ivory tusks estimated to be worth $1.6 million. The officers found the tusks, which were hidden …
Report of the Committee constituted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests to holistically address the issue of poaching in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
China's fast-growing consumerism and lax policing of ivory laws are the latest threats to wild elephant populations, said an author of a recent report on endangered species. Poaching of elephants and other species has increased in Central African countries, with products headed mainly to Asian markets and for the bush …
The Madhya Pradesh forest department’s wildlife wing, in association with the Wildlife Institute of India, is close to introducing the extinct cheetah at Palpur Kuno wildlife sanctuary in Sheopur district. The last Asiatic cheetahs were seen in this part of the world in the middle of the previous century. This …
Over 10,000 deer of the Sundarbans are poached and consumedper year by local people living in eight upazilas adjacent to the mangroveforest. This was revealed by a recent study carried out by WildlifeTrust of Bangladesh (WTB), a non-government organisation working to protect thenatural heritage of the country. It revealed that …
Activists question allowing China to participate in ivory trade, with estimates that as much as 90 per cent of retail items in the country are illegal.
Conservation groups asked an appeals court on Monday to strike down a move by Congress to strip more than 1,500 wolves in Idaho and Montana of federal endangered species protections. In a petition to the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the groups sought to overturn a ruling last week …
Guwahati, Aug. 7: The leather industry and beef processing units in neighbouring Bangladesh are encouraging smuggling of Indian cattle through the porous Indo-Bangladesh borders, including the stretch of international border in Dhubri district. The Union home ministry has said the leather and tannery industries and processed beef units in Bangladesh …
