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 …
Jaipur: At least five persons were arrested from in and around the Ranthambore tiger reserve on charges of illegally entering the forest, carrying arms, poaching and a host of other charges. Officials say that at least three tractors, a gun, a wild boar an ATM card, a PAN card and …
Barun S Mitra Russia recently hosted a summit in St Petersburg to focus attention on the plight of the tiger in the wild. This is the first international summit of this kind, where heads of states of Russia, China, Bangladesh and some of the other range countries gathered to discuss …
Poaching of fish in the Harike Wetlands, where the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) intends to conduct a bio-monitoring project, threatens to endanger the wildlife habitat in the sanctuary. Information with The Indian Express reveals that in the last two months alone, authorities have booked five people under the Wildlife Protection …
Anindo Dey | TNN Jaipur: It’s official: the first tiger ST-1 relocated to Sariska from the Ranthambore reserve was poisoned to death. Forensic test reports have confirmed the presence of poison in body parts of the big cat. “The forensic tests have confirmed presence of an insecticide,’’ said H M …
The tiger found dead in Sariska reserve in November was poisoned, according to a forensic report whose finding may lead to concern over the safety of other translocated big cats there.
Forest authorities seek CID probe, additional police presence near the Reserve The worst fears of the country's tiger lovers have come true with the FSL (forensic) report on the carcass of the first tiger re-introduced in Sariska Tiger Reserve (STR) attributing the death to poisoning. The news does not augur …
Poaching Threat Looms Large, Slack Monitoring System Anindo Dey | TNN Jaipur: The recent death of a tiger at the Sariska reserve and a complete reshuffle of officials later, it is a failed system that the state forest department is slowly but steadily getting entrapped into. For not only are …
Dec. 2: Poaching endangered species is going on unabated across the district. Poachers have been killing deer and peacocks for their skins and venison along the AP-Karnataka border and several places in the district. This local racket supplies venison parcels to selected consumers in Anantapur and other places every week, …
Jaipur: A high alert has been sounded at the Ranthambore national park by the forest department after threats of possible poaching. Forest guards, police and ecodevelopment groups have all been alerted to maintain a strict vigil in and around the park. Interestingly, the threats from poachers come at a time …
Forest department deploys teams of guards at vulnerable places in the national park to conduct patrolling after an activist shoots off letter DNA Correspondent Fearing poaching of tigers, the state forest department has sounded a high alert in and around the Ranthambhore National Park. According to sources, forest guards have …
Every November angling enthusiasts journey to three fishing camps on the banks of the Cauvery river near the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary in Karnataka. The trip for them is an annual pilgrimage. The anglers come to pit their wits against India's mighty fish, the mahseer. This tiger fish is angled on …
Much of human-carnivore conflict is supposed to be either accidental or caused by old/injured animals, but how do we explain deliberate attacks on people by healthy, mature carnivores?
Even as 13 countries agreed to double the number of tigers by 2022, in the recent World Tiger Summit in Russia, the spate of tiger mortalities continues in the country. While one injured tigress from Corbett died on Sunday, another was recently found dead near Tadoba reserve in Chandipur in …
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Tuesday agreed with other Asian nations to try to double the world's wild tiger population by 2022 and save it from extinction. Just 3,200 tigers now live in the wild, down from 100,000 a century ago, and those that …
Leonardo DiCaprio on Tuesday donated $1 million toward efforts to save tigers from extinction as he arrived in Moscow to take part in an international "tiger summit." The star of movies "Titanic" and "Inception" made the $1 million commitment to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), with whom he has been …
With just 3,200 left in the wild, tigers could become extinct within a decade unless countries step up efforts to halt poaching and deforestation, wildlife experts told a "tiger summit" in Russia this week. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao join world leaders on Tuesday to …
Wild tigers could become extinct in 12 years if countries fail to take quick action to protect their habitats and step up the fight against poaching, global wildlife experts told a
The rhinoceros is under threat yet againCONTRARY to widespread belief in China and South-East Asia, the rhinoceros horn has no proven medicinal or aphrodisiac qualities. Its effect, some scientists say, is the same as chewing your fingernails. It is made of the same stuff, agglutinated hair. Yet rhino horn is …
