November 10th, 2008 - 3:23 pm ICT by ANI
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Nainital, Nov 10 (ANI): A three-year-old male leopard was killed in a road accident near Ramnagar forest area of Jim Corbett National Park on Sunday.
Wildlife officials said they found the dead ...
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October 29th, 2008 - 3:00 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 29 (ANI): The UN has allowed China and Japan to buy 108 tons of ivory in African auctions, which conservationists fear will open the floodgates to illegal poachers to ...
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September 28th, 2008 - 10:55 pm ICT by IANS
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Raipur, Sep 28 (IANS) A suspected member of an inter-state gang of poachers has been arrested with a lion's skin in Chhattisgarh, police said Sunday.Atmaram was nabbed on a tip off late ...
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September 21st, 2008 - 4:44 pm ICT by ANI
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Canberra, September 21 (ANI): South Asia''s tourism industry is in jeopardy, with reports indicating that the endangered Great One-horned Rhinoceros is in dire straits in Nepal. According to a report carried ...
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September 21st, 2008 - 4:42 pm ICT by ANI
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Canberra, September 21 (ANI): South Asia''s tourism industry is in jeopardy, with reports indicating that the endangered Great One-horned Rhinoceros is in dire straits in Nepal.
According to a report carried out ...
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September 20th, 2008 - 4:26 pm ICT by ANI
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Bhopal , Sept 20 (ANI): Officials of the ''Van Vihar'' zoo in Bhopal performed the last rites of a 19-year lion.
The lion was brought to the zoo in 2006 after being ...
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September 20th, 2008 - 1:30 pm ICT by ANI
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Canberra, September 20 (ANI): South Asias tourism industry is in jeopardy, with reports indicating that the endangered Great One-horned Rhinoceros is in dire straits in Nepal.
According to a report carried out ...
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September 12th, 2008 - 8:40 pm ICT by ANI
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By Vaschipem Kamondang/ Peter Alex Todd Kaziranga National Park, Sep.12 (ANI): Floods in River Brahmaputra and its tributaries are an annual feature in Assam. This year the floods have also inundated ...
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September 4th, 2008 - 2:19 pm ICT by IANS
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Raipur, Sep 4 (IANS) Two youths have been arrested for illegally trading deer skins in Kanker district of Chhattisgarh. The seized skins are worth about Rs.400,000 in the international market, police said ...
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August 31st, 2008 - 11:27 am ICT by ANI
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Lucknow, Aug 31 (ANI): Lucknow zoo authorities have brought a rare variety of civet albino cat, which they have rescued from poachers.
The animal though belonging to the cat family, has a ...
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August 14th, 2008 - 7:39 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, Aug 14 (IANS) The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) has seized three leopard skins and arrested two people of an alleged interstate gang of poachers in Dehradun in Uttarakhand, the ...
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August 1st, 2008 - 12:51 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, August 1 (ANI): A new research paper has warned that elephants face the thereat of extinction by 2020 because of a high fatality rate due to poaching.
African elephants are being ...
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August 1st, 2008 - 12:30 pm ICT by IANS
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Washington, Aug 1 (IANS) The pace at which African elephants are being slaughtered for ivory in spite of the 1989 ban is likely to make them extinct by 2020. The illegal ivory ...
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July 29th, 2008 - 12:25 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, July 29 (ANI): The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has determined that just three after its discovery in Tanzania; a new monkey is threatened with extinction.
Known as the kipunji, the ...
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July 28th, 2008 - 10:30 pm ICT by ANI
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Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh), July 28 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh police seized eight skins of leopards from poachers from Saharanpur on Monday.
Acting on a tip off, the police arrested four persons possessing ...
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July 28th, 2008 - 2:04 pm ICT by IANS
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Raipur, July 28 (IANS) Two tribals believed to part of an inter-state gang of poachers have been arrested and a leopard skin seized from them, the Chhattisgarh Police said Monday. The duo ...
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July 28th, 2008 - 1:38 pm ICT by IANS
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Raipur, July 28 (IANS) Two tribals believed to part of an inter-state gang of poachers have been arrested and a leopard skin seized from them, the Chhattisgarh Police said Monday. The duo ...
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July 19th, 2008 - 10:06 pm ICT by ANI
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Baksar ( Bihar ), July 19 (ANI): Railway police has rescued about 40 tortoises from Baksar in Bihar and handed them over to a zoological park in Patna .
The tortoises were ...
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July 16th, 2008 - 1:03 pm ICT by IANS
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London, July 16 (IANS) Animal support groups fear for elephants in India and Africa following the British government's official backing to China to buy ivory. The government voted in China's favour at ...
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July 13th, 2008 - 10:21 pm ICT by IANS
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Patna, July 13 (IANS) Twelve deer horns were seized Sunday from near a national park in Bihar's Bagaha district by the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) personnel. A team of SSB officials recovered ...
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July 13th, 2008 - 12:09 pm ICT by ANI
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London, July 13 (ANI): The world trade in ivory, banned 19 years ago to save the African elephant from extinction, is about to take off again, with the emergence of China ...
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July 12th, 2008 - 2:13 pm ICT by ANI
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London, July 12 (ANI): The world trade in ivory, banned 19 years ago to save the African elephant from extinction, is about to take off again, with the emergence of China ...
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July 3rd, 2008 - 2:41 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, July 3 (ANI): A recent survey has shown that there has been a dramatic decline of a least 30 percent in the Bengal tiger population from the Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve ...
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July 3rd, 2008 - 10:05 am ICT by IANS
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By Papri Sri Raman
Muthathi (Karnataka), July 3 (IANS) He is just 17, but tackling climate change and transforming poachers into forest guards to conserve the environment makes more sense to Agastya Muthanna ...
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July 2nd, 2008 - 12:56 pm ICT by IANS
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Kathmandu, July 2 (DPA) A survey into the number of Nepal's endangered tigers has shown the population has declined to dangerous levels, reports said Wednesday. The survey carried out in western Nepal's ...
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June 29th, 2008 - 12:56 pm ICT by IANS
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By Sanjeeb Baruah
Guwahati, June 29 (IANS) India's one-horned rhinoceros faces an uncertain future in the country's northeast, its main home, because of unending poaching and shrinking of the habitat so vital for ...
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June 27th, 2008 - 7:06 pm ICT by IANS
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DPA
Dhaka, June 27 (DPA) Environmental groups in Bangladesh are up in arms against a US-based oil giant for allegedly destroying a natural forest while exploring for oil and gas near the ...
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June 12th, 2008 - 9:00 pm ICT by ANI
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By Sarada Lahangir
Bhubaneshwar (Orissa), June 12 (ANI): Concerned over the growing number of tuskers deaths due to poaching, electrocution or accidents, the Forest Department of Orissa here recently held a workshop ...
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June 8th, 2008 - 11:20 am ICT by IANS
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Bhubaneswar, June 8 (IANS) Four people have been arrested for killing leopards and possessing their skin in Orissa's Mayurbhanj district, a forest official said Sunday. The four, including a former village council ...
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June 6th, 2008 - 10:20 pm ICT by IANS
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Guwahati, June 6 (IANS) Poachers in Assam's Kaziranga National Park Friday slaughtered a one-horned rhino for its horn in the latest of incidents of rhino poaching in the north-eastern state. A park ...
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