New Delhi: The government informed the Lok Sabha that 237 tigers died in the country in the last 2 years. It said 23% of deaths from 2012 to 2017 were due to poaching and 55% due to natural causes. Junior environment minister Mahesh Sharma said 7% of the deaths was due to unnatural causes not attributable […]
London Zoo is celebrating World Lion Day August 10) in style, with the big cats being part of an event involving boxing and biting colourful balls.
World Lion Day is celebrated for the animal kingdom’s most beautiful and fearsome creature, the king of the jungle, the lion. This day was founded by ‘Big Cat Rescue’ to pay tribute to this apex predator. It is celebrated on 10th August to spread awareness about the conservation issues that lions face, raise funds for […]
During the third week of July, there were heavy rains all over the State. The wildlife, especially the ground flora and fauna, was gravely affected during such stormy weather. The villages like Khalikot, Rambha, Ashika, Buguda, Balipadar of Ganjam district are very famous for growing Krushnasar or black buck.In Balipadar area, the locals protect the […]
The Gir National Park, as everyone knows, is the last abode of the remaining 400 or more Asiatic Lions left alive on the planet. Master of all he surveys – royalty personified, the lion exudes an aura of superiority with utter disdain for other creatures. Being so completely self-centered, he leaves caring for his progeny […]
NAINITAL: Uttarakhand high court on Thursday taking a strict stand on death of tigers in the state warned the state government that ”if no categorical assurance for the deployment of Special Tiger Protection Force in Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR) is given, we may be constrained to request the ministry of defence to deploy the Eco […]
RAJKOT : A 12-year-old tigress ‘Bhumi’ died due to snakebite in Pradyuman Park zoo run by the Rajkot municipal corporation (RMC). The tigress was brought from Vadodara zoo to Rajkot in 2010. According to zoo authorities, a viper snake bit the tigress in the cage. Zoo superintendent R K Hirpara said, “In monsoon, snakes generally come out […]
The Government may have established a migration commission to carry out academic exercises on the burning issue of migration but nothing concrete has been done to address the problem of damage caused to agriculture by wild animals. The elected members of legislative assembly must spend a portion of their local area development fund on measures […]
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