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 […]
An elephant calf died after suffering injuries when it accidently came close to a fight between two adult tuskers inside the Dalma wildlife sanctuary. According to Dalma range officer R.P. Singh, tusk of one of the elephants had hit deep into the calf’s abdomen leading to death. Notably Dalma is the best elephant habitat of […]
Experiment after 27 years NEW DELHI: Months after the unique mating of a white tigress with a royal Bengal tiger at the Delhi zoo, there may be good news on the cards. According to sources at the zoo, the white tigress is pregnant and is expected to deliver soon. The 3-year old white tigress Nirbhaya […]
Bihar government has recently commissioned a population estimation survey of the Ganges River Dolphin (Platanista gangetica ganegtica) – declared as National Aquatic Animal in 2009, in about 1000 km river stretch of the Ganga and its two major tributaries in Bihar – the Gandak and Ghaghra. Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) has partnered with the state government […]
RAIPUR: Three suspected wildlife poachers and traders were arrested and the skin of a leopard and other body parts were seized from them in Chhattisgarh’s Mahasamund district. The poachers were identified as Anjan Singh, Mithlesh Bariha and Lalit Dhruv. The police had information that the three, natives of different villages of the district were looking […]
GUWAHATI: Assam government on Wednesday rolled out an exclusive rhino protection force to protect the animal, which is frequently being killed by poachers for their horns. Between 2015 and 2017, poachers have killed 74 rhinos in the three natural habitats at Kaziranga, Orang and Manas. In the current year, already four have been killed. The […]
India has identified four more ailing wildlife species—Northern river terrapin (Batagur Baska) Clouded Leopard, Red Panda and Arabian Sea Humpback Whale — that need immediate intervention for conservation. Enlisted in Schedule-I of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 which accords them the highest degree of protection, these four endangered species have now been brought under […]
When the last male Northern White Rhinoceros, 45-year-old Sudan, died in March it looked like the end of the sub-species was nigh. With only two females alive, and no breeding partners left, the rhino was functionally extinct, and just a few years away from dying out entirely. But in a world first, scientists have created a test-tube rhino […]
NEW DELHI: For centuries, Delhi remained the natural home for rare species of owls. But as pollution levels increased over the past decade, they began to abandon their habitat here and migrated to other more hospitable regions. Now with the forest department running a campaign to create favourable conditions for their homecoming, rare species of […]
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