11 Jun 2019
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Tips for Long Lens Users… When you are in the middle of a shoot and your subject comes too close… adapt! It is impossible to get the full animal in the frame. Best is to go for a vertical composition and capture the front portion of the head and the legs. All The Best 🙂

10 Jun 2019
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PC-Stefan van den Akker/Wikimedia Commons. This agreement includes transboundary landscape management, as well as an agreement to focus on conservation of species like elephant, rhino and tiger. The two nations with common boundaries plan to sign the Memorandum of Agreement(MOU). The agreement is expected to put an emphasis on tiger conservation. As per the 2014 tiger population estimation, […]

09 Jun 2019
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(Photo: Reuters) A male tiger — ST-16 — brought from Ranthambore to Sariska in April is no more. According to the officials, they operated on his injured leg on Saturday after it was tranquilised. Then ST-16 was released in the forest but later the officials recovered its dead body. If numbers are to be believed, with […]

27 May 2019
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SIX Persons, including a juvenile, were held by the forest department on Monday after they were allegedly caught red-handed organising an illegal lion show in revenue area Veraval taluka of Gir Somnath district. Revenue areas are not considered part of the wildlife sanctuary. Five of the six accused were identified as Aniruddha Nathani (30), Hiren Vaishnav […]

27 May 2019
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Lion shows using Baits It was during the visit of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, to the Gir forest in 1955, that tethered buffalo baits were provided for the first time to anchor lions so that they could be conveniently shown to the distinguished visitors. This technique was perfected and adopted […]

26 May 2019
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“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.”― Mahatma Gandhi Wild animals are born to live free. Even in jungles where food is […]

25 Apr 2019
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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 […]