This report presents an assessment of the trade in gibbons and orang-utans in Sumatra, Indonesia, including the islands off Sumatra’s west coast (most notably, the Mentawai Islands). Until recently Sumatra and its off-lying islands harboured one of the largest expanses of lowland evergreen rainforest in Southeast Asia.
In the wake of severe fighting in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, worried rangers began a painstaking census late last month of the park's highly endangered mountain gorillas, nearly a third of the world's known population.
global warming Maldives seeks new homeland As rise in the sea level caused by global warming threatens low-lying islands across the world, Maldives is looking for a new territory to relocate to.
When it comes to feeding monkeys, Delhi residents would rather do it hands-on, perhaps in the hope of being blessed by monkey god Hanuman! Or so the Capital's civic agencies are discovering while trying to implement a court order. Special centres set up near two Hanuman temples by the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to collect feed for the animals are going empty.
coastal clearances: The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests issued the second draft of the Coastal Zone Management (CZM) notification, which allows green-field airports on coasts.
After monkeys of Shimla, it is now the turn of stray dogs to get housed in a dog protection park, which Shimla Municipal Corporation proposes to set up on the outskirts of the town. The Corporation has decided to relocate stray dogs to a forest area spread over 16,000 square metres in Panjeri village. The site is situated along the Shimla-Kalka highway at Ghora Chowki.
Human-wildlife conflict (HWC) is an increasingly significant obstacle to
the conservation of wildlife. The growing body of HWC literature tends
to focus on biological, economic and local aspects associated with HWC.
The factors driving HWC at the local level are, however, shaped in turn by
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The Forest Department will not carry out the culling of monkeys at its own level in view of the religious sentiments of the people but grant permission to kill them to farmers whose crops are being da
