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 …
Nepal needs at least US$ 42.7 million from the international community and conservation partners to carry out conservation programmes to meet the global tiger recovery goal and double the wild population of tigers, a meeting was told here on Friday. As part of celebrations for the International Tiger Year 2010, …
SINGAPORE, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Asia's tiger population could be close to extinction with fewer than 3,500 tigers remaining in the wild and most clustered in fragmented areas making up less than 7 percent of their former range in Asia, a study says. The study in the latest issue of …
Guwahati, Sept. 15: A group of poachers today pledged not to kill rhinos again and protect the prized animal of Assam in whatever way possible. The group of seven, involved in several incidents of rhino killings at Kaziranga National Park, surrendered before the forest department at a solemn function held …
Guwahati: Seven poachers on Wednesday surrendered before the authority of Kaziranga National Park (KNP), the famous abode of one-horned Indian rhino, with arms and ammunition and pledged to join hand in conservation efforts. A Park official informed that an NGO called Rhino Jagaran Mancha from Bonkuwal village in the fringe …
- Dairy project involving 74 villages hopes to keep jobless youths away from wildlife crime Jorhat, Sept. 13: A dairy project involving 74 villages dotting Kaziranga National Park is hoping to wean jobless youths away from poaching and end the milk drought in Upper Assam. As part of the joint …
Much has been done to try to save the world’s largest cat — threatened by hunting, habitat loss and the wildlife trade — but their numbers have continued to spiral downward for nearly two decades according to this study published in the latest issue of PLoS Biology journal. The Tiger …
While giving the elephant right of way, the recent recommendations of a task force are aimed at securing wildlife corridors by compensating and insuring those who live in its path Despite the fact that India
BHUBANESWAR/DHENKANAL: Orissa continues to be the graveyard for elephants. Two more jumbos have got electrocuted in Hindol and Athagarh in the last 24 hours as per reports. A sagging transmission line reportedly claimed the life of a tusker in Dhenkanal
Priscilla Jebaraj & Ananth Krishnan NEW DELHI/BEIJING: Defence ties between India and China may be strained in the wake of the visa denial row, but the two countries hope next week will see increased cooperation in both wildlife conservation and global financial issues as two delegations from New Delhi travel …
A major report by the Elephant Task Force submitted to the Ministry of Environment and Forests. The report lays out a comprehensive action agenda for protecting elephants in the wild and in captivity, and for addressing human-elephant conflict.
India's defence exchanges with China may have come under strain but this has not deterred the two Asian giants from enhancing bilateral cooperation in an array of wildlife issues such as smashing growing network of trade of tiger parts at a four-day meet beginning on Monday in Beijing. A delegation …
The current focus is on the dwindling tiger population but here's another big cat that is coming under the gun, literally. The hill state of Uttarakhand, once a safe haven for wildlife, has lost an incredible 535 leopards in the past decade, turning it into a graveyard for the graceful …
Jaipur: Having successfully managed to escape conviction in a number of cases, luck ran out for notorious poacher Sansar Chand with a Delhi court holding him guilty of violation of the Wildlife Act. The poacher had been caught red-handed with a leopard skin about 15 years ago. The judgement was …
This could be the road to another tragic Sariska, albeit of elephants, not tigers. In a span of about 45 days across April-May, at least 10 elephants have been confirmed killed at the Simlipal National Park, a tiger reserve in Orissa
