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 …
Migratory birds visiting this region in winter fall prey to poachers because of the lack of conservation measures to protect the habitats of the feathered guests. A local NGO, working for preservation and protection of birds
From the moment we drove into Intanki National Park, tucked in the southwestern edge of Nagaland, I kept gaping at the canopy overhead to catch a glimpse of the circus artist of the wild—hoolock gibbons. Unique to Northeast India, the mighty little ape can swing at a speed of 55 …
Camera traps, which up to now have clicked pictures of wildlife in Assam, have now for the first time taken pictures showing poachers at Orang National Park. Revealing this at a news conference today, Assam principal chief conservator of forests (wildlife), Suresh Chand, said pictures taken by camera traps hung …
Among the captive elephants, the most attractive ones are those caught from the forests of the Kerala-Mysore border. They have attractive features such as a long trunk, symmetric and wide tusks, broad and projected forehead, honey-coloured eyes and a long tail. The forehead and trunk of Kerala tuskers are pitchblack. …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Madhavan Pillai Foundation for Conservation has selected G Kannan, a forest watcher at Periyar Tiger Reserve in Thekkady, for the Madhavan Pillai Conservation Award-2011 instituted by the Foundation. Addressing a news conference here on Friday, Balan Madhavan, director of the Foundation, said that Kannan, who has been serving …
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: The financial health of Asiatic lion conservation plan is improving by the day. Not just domestic, the number of foreign tourists too has registered a jump of 33 per cent in 2010. Forest officials said that from October to December 2010, Gir Wildlife Sanctuary had …
Anindo Dey | TNN Jaipur: The pressure of a growing big cat population has pushed another tigress out of the Ranthambore National Park. A tigress tagged T-13 had to walk out from her territory in Sultanpur along with her cubs to the Chambal area, about 4km outside the national park …
Sushanta Talukdar Carcass detected by staff in a dense patch of vegetation Carcass bore no injury marks Samples sent for forensic test Guwahati: A Royal Bengal tigress of the Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park, about 150 km from here, is suspected to have been poisoned to death by miscreants. Mangaldai …
Despite registration of an FIR against the contractors indulging in illegal poaching and fishing within and outside the wildlife sanctuary of Harike Pattan, flouting the blanket ban, the police have not been able to arrest any of them. About ten days ago, wildlife officials got the FIR registered against Mehla …
Alwar: The polygraph test on Parsadi Lal Gujjar in Sariska tiger death case is out. The suspect reportedly confessed that he had taken away the whiskers from the carcass of the tiger. However, he did not throw any light on the killer. Meanwhile, Rajgarh court refused to give permission to …
Alwar/Jaipur: A polygraph test later, it is likely to be be brain mapping and a narco test for suspect Parsadi Lal Gujjar in the tiger death case of Sariska. The suspect will shortly be sent to Ahmedabad for this. According state forest department officials,
Yagnesh Mehta | TNN Surat: With the killing of the leopard landing into controversy, forest department officials are in a spot over declaring the animal a man-eater. Environmentalists are raising doubts over forest officials
Alwar/Jaipur: The man suspected in the killing of male tiger ST-1 at the Sariska tiger reserve, Parsadilal Gujjar, was on Wednesday taken to the CBI's Centre for Forensic laboratory for a polygraphy test. The test will ascertain the extent to which the suspect is involved in the poisoning of the …
The CBI will conduct a polygraph test on the key accused in the recent killing of a tiger in Sariska. State forest officials said Parsadi Lal, arrested in this case, would be taken to Delhi on Wednesday for questioning in the case. Parsadi, a resident of Kalakhet village, was nabbed …
JORHAT, Dec 13: Two poachers were killed in a gunfight with wildlife rangers at the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) in the State on Monday after a gang entered the area and killed a rhino, an official said. According to sources, a group of about four to six poachers entered the …
Srikakulam, Dec. 12: Observing that government was keen to take up issues concerning the poaching of wildlife and smuggling of forest re-sources, the forest minister, Mr S. Vijayarama Raju said that government would cla-mp down on poachers and smugglers. Speaking to mediapersons here on Sunday, he said that a special …
Sunny Sebastian JAIPUR: Five nomads were taken into custody on Tuesday from the Indergarh Range of Bundi district in Rajasthan for alleged poaching of wild boars near the Chambal Crocodile Sanctuary. The accused, said to be belonging to the hunter community of Mogya, are from neighbouring Madhya Pradesh. They have …
