25 Apr 2019

New Delhi: The Indian Customs Department; TRAFFIC and WWF-India are reaching out to travelers passing through Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi—India’s busiest airport—on issues related to poaching and illegal wildlife trade. Five life-sized, brightly lit standee displays of Snow Leopard Panthera uncia, Greater One-Horned Rhino Rhinoceros, Pangolins; Asian Elephant and Don’t Buy Trouble (which lists prohibited wildlife species for possession […]

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24 Apr 2019

Ranthambore guide stones tiger, fined

PC-Sooraj Puthiyedam Jaipur: A tourist and his guide were jointly fined Rs 51,000 for allegedly pelting stones at a sleeping tiger in Ranthambore Tiger Reserve in a bid to get the perfect “action shot” on Tuesday. The cruelty was captured in thermal-imaging cameras used to monitor big cats in the park. The forest department also […]

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17 Apr 2019

Bittu Sahgal on nearing four decades of Sanctuary Asia, and why tigers are the forest’s best chowkidars

PC-Nirmal Harindran Sanctuary Asia was born in October 1981. The magazine was used as a platform to spread the message of conservation in a simple language that even a 12-year-old would understand. The magazine that started out as a quarterly, is now a bi-monthly, with subscribers all over the world. As the founder of Sanctuary Nature Foundation, […]

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15 Apr 2019

Endangered rhinos are now being protected by powerful data analytics

After poaching surged recently, the South African government turned to techniques more often to study consumers to help identify-and shut down-the networks that connect illegal guns, poachers and rhino horn buyers. Poaching has surged in South Africa over the last decade and thousands of rhinos have been killed for their horns. Much of the poaching […]

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11 Apr 2019

A first in 4 years, tiger ‘poached’ in Sunderbans

PC- Soumyajit Nandy KOLKATA: A Bengal tiger was found dead with a wire snare around its waist — indicating poaching — on Monday in the Sunderbans, a Unesco World Heritage site that has also been recently recognised as a Ramsar site. The death of the tiger — an endangered species, accorded the highest level of protection under the Wildlife Protection […]

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01 Apr 2019

Gujarat Govt To Set Up New Wildlife Division Outside Gir Sanctuary, Expand Safety Cover for Asiatic Lions

A two year old asiatic lion cub is rescued from a well in the village of Amrapur located about a hundred miles from Gir sanctuary Ahmedabad: The Gujarat government has initiated a process to establish a new Shetrunji Wildlife Division outside the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary, ensuring the endangered Asiatic lions a bigger safety cover. Expanding […]

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