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 …
AHMEDABAD: Call it the Bachchan effect or the Diwali rush, the Lion Conservation Society of the state government has managed to secure more funds for lion conservation this year. The Gir sanctuary and the Devaliya Interpretation Centre have recorded an income of around Rs 42 lakh in the last ten …
SALEPUR: Animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi today urged people to raise voice against rampant smuggling of cattle. Inaugurating the 68th Gostastami Utsav of Asureswar Gorakshani here, Maneka said cattle smuggling from Orissa to West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh is on the rise. "The way in which the cows are being …
Guwahati, Nov 2 (IANS): A trans-national elephant smuggling syndicate was busted in Assam with the arrest of five persons, even as conservationists claimed close to 100 wild Asiatic jumbos were captured and sold in Nepal and various Indian States in the past five years. "The ring leader of the elephant …
Nalagarh: DGP Dr DS Manhas said the Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh (BBN) area was fast emerging as the centrepoint of wildlife poaching. And a well-organised network is being operated in the area, he said while talking to mediapersons at Nalagarh today. Manhas said the police was making efforts to unearth such networks by …
The Saharanpur police recovered 25 quintal horns of wild animals from a godown in Kutubsher police circle on Tuesday. However, the godown's owner managed to escape. According to reports, the police were tipped-off that Babu, a native of Gulkambo village in Mandi police circle, was engaged in wildlife smuggling. The …
The Matunga police on Monday night arrested a 40-year-old man for possession of two elephant tusks concealed in a polythene bag outside Dadar railway station.
Akshaya Kumar Sahoo The State Board for Wildlife, the high-power body chaired by the chief minister Naveen Patnaik, has not met even once in the last two years MASSIVE URBANISATION and industrialisation in Orissa is now taking its toll on the wildlife resources. This apart, the alleged apathy of the …
The Bandipur Tiger Reserve staff have arrested four men who were poaching herbivores in the tiger reserve at Boodikote in the Gopalaswamy Betta range. The arrest of Kamala Kannan of Salem, Krishnan from Ooty, Bomma from Kaniyanpura and Manju from Shivapura has revealed once again that the Gopalaswamy Betta is …
Bhubaneswar: Union minister of state for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh on Monday requested chief minister Naveen Patnaik to personally take steps to check killing of jumbos due to electrocution in the state. The Union minister, in a letter to Patnaik, rued that despite alerting the environment and forest department …
The conservation broth has got eager hands to stir it. Some throw in extra spices to experiment with the taste. But that sometimes spoils the broth. For instance, the forest department’s prescription to tackle the dearth of prey base for tigers in the Sunderbans: release deer in the mangroves. The …
On more robust population studies Population estimates are currently done through sighting and pug marks. While these are fine to establish the presence of a species, we need to know population demographics in sex ratio, age groups, number of birth and deaths (to understand the viability and health of the …
Sivasagar, Sept. 27: The Sivasagar forest department has taken up a plan to make Panidihing sanctuary, a hotspot for local and migratory birds, free of largescale cattle intrusion and also augment milk production in the district. The plan aims to free the sanctuary from all kinds of
Subhash Chandra N S, Bangalore, Sep 23, DHNS: In a swift and efficient operation, the Forest Department staff of Bandipur Tiger Reserve has averted a major wildlife disaster that would have resulted in loss of wildlife, by detecting 45 wire snares in the N Begur and Gundre ranges. The snares, …
KOCHI: The Coast Guard on Wednesday night apprehended 24 Myanmarese poachers off the Andaman and Nicobar islands, taking the total number of poachers arrested during the last 20 days to 88. It also seized seven boats used by the marauders, including two on Wednesday. According to a Coast Guard media …
African environment ministers pledged Friday to set up an international research body to study and protect the continent's wildlife, aiming to reverse the loss of its biodiversity. Africa is famed for the lions, elephants, rhinos and leopards that attract millions of tourists each year, but its wildlife is threatened by …
