Wild boar meat is being sold in Nagpur for Rs80 a kilo. Sambhar meat is available in Bhubaneswar for Rs100 a kilo.

Meat of rare birds, including egrets, moor hen and a variety of wild water birds, is being sold openly in the streets of Puducherry while the meat of the Indian bullfrog is up for sale in the markets of Dimapur. Across India, the sale of the meat of wild animals, including jungle cats, jackal, porcupine and other endangered animals, has reached mammoth proportions and if the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) does not take steps to counter this trade,

Deforestation and conversion of land for agriculture has caused habitat loss leading to threat to Blyth’s tragopan, an endangered bird, in Nagaland.

According to the latest annual report of the forest and wildlife department, large-scale hunting and snaring of this enchanting bird by people for food was also a big threat.

Leopards straying into in villages nestling along the forest fringes in the State, attacking people and their cattle have become a matter of serious concern.

The killing of a healthy female leopard that had strayed into the small hamlet of Angamoozhy in the Ranni forest division by an unruly mob on Tuesday was the latest in the series of human-leopard conflict in the State.

Gun shots booming in the coastal area of Kochi are worrying wildlife managers.

PANJIM: In a major setback to the mining industry, Shah Commission during their first round of investigations is learnt to have found that 90 percent of the mines in the state have some kind of illegalities.

Sources stated that Shah Commission’s senior members Justice R A Mehta and U V Singh reprimanded Chief Wildlife Warden Dr Shashi Kumar and Director of Mines and Geology Arvind Lolienkar on the illegalities, which were allowed to be continue by authorities.

PANJIM: Goa Legislative Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which is assessing the quantum of illegal ore that has been mined in the state, has issued notices to 46 mining companies for extracting iron ore without complying with environmental norms.

All 46 companies have been asked to submit the clarification as to why no objection certificates (NOCs) were not obtained from the forest department before extracting the ore.

With uncontrolled tourism posing a threat to the wildlife habitats, particularly tiger reserves, the Government has constituted a seven-member panel to suggest guidelines to regulate forest and wildlife eco-tourism in the country.

The Environment Ministry-constituted committee, headed by ex-tourism secretary Sujit Banerjee and prominent wildlife experts as its members, will also make an apprais

India's defence exchanges with China may have come under strain but this has not deterred the two Asian giants from enhancing bilateral cooperation in an array of wildlife issues such as smashing growing network of trade of tiger parts at a four-day meet beginning on Monday in Beijing. A delegation led by environment ministry's inspector general (Wildlife) A.K.

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