Wildlife

 Hunters are invited

At Pakke Tiger Reserve, Nandini Velho learns how a hunting tribe can be partner in conservation.

Publication Date: 
31/12/2010
Nandini Velho
Down to Earth
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Arunachal, Benefit Sharing, East Kameng, Hunting Tribes, Nishi, North East, Public Participation, Tiger Reserves, Tribals, Wildlife, Wildlife Management
Wildlife

Where translocation triggered leopard-human conflict

Divya Gandhi

BANGALORE: Junnar in Maharashtra was like any other prosperous agricultural taluk, where improved irrigation helped farmers switch to cash crops. Cattle, goats and fowl supplemented their income.

But in 2001, a deadly phenomenon struck the region almost overnight: leopards, known to prey often on cattle, dogs and pigs here, began attacking human beings also.

Publication Date: 
17/12/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Leopard, People - Animal Conflicts, Maharashtra, Wildlife Management
Wildlife

MoEF cries foul over relocation of sambhar

Anindo Dey & Rajendra Sharma | TNN

Jaipur/Alwar: It was another relocation bid that went awry.

Publication Date: 
17/12/2010
Times Of India (Jaipur)
Tags:
Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Sambhar, Sariska NP, Sajjangarh SA, Kumbhalgarh SA, Rajgarh (D), Udaipur (D), Wildlife Management
Wildlife

Wildlife management plan, need of the hour

BHUBANESWAR: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today emphasised on formulating a wildlife conservation strategy to address the biological requirements of different animals along with the needs of the human communities.

Many species of wildlife in the country are under severe biotic pressure due to degradation and fragmentation of their natural habitats.

Publication Date: 
15/12/2010
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Endangered Species, Wildlife, Wildlife Management, Orissa (Odisha)
Wildlife

Centre identifies 12 elephant corridors in state

Anil S

KOCHI: The Centre has identified a total of 183 elephant corridors across the country, including 12 in the state.

Publication Date: 
14/12/2010
New Indian Express (Kochi)
Tags:
Elephant, Kerala, Wildlife Management, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)

Blame the forest management system

The Elephant Task Force

Publication Date: 
03/12/2010
Shankar Gopalakrishnan
Economic and Political Weekly
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Elephant, Wildlife Management, India, People - Animal Conflicts, Protected Area Conservation, Coexistence Strategies, Land Use, Forest Rights Act 2006, Land Act 1894, Land Acquisition, Naxalites
Wildlife

Did the task force get it right?

The Elephant Task Force

Publication Date: 
03/12/2010
A Christy Williams
Economic and Political Weekly
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Elephant, Wildlife, Wildlife Management, India, People - Animal Conflicts, Sonai-Rupai SA, Poaching, Forest Personnel, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
Wildlife

An Elephantine task

An assessment of the task force report, both in terms of the value of its recommendations and implementability and a comparison with the implementation of the Tiger Task Force recommendations of 2005.

Publication Date: 
03/12/2010
Ghazala Shahabuddin
Economic and Political Weekly
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Elephant, Wildlife Management, India, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), People - Animal Conflicts, Compensation, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Forest Personnel, Public Participation, Tiger Conservation, Wildlife
Wildlife

Gajah and Praja: Conservation, control and conflicts

The adivasi people living near the Orissa-Andhra Pradesh border face the challenge of having to live with elephants which, according to the Elephant Task Force, have been

Publication Date: 
03/12/2010
Sagari R Ramdas
Economic and Political Weekly
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Elephant, Wildlife Management, Wildlife, India, Lakhari Valley SA, People - Animal Conflicts, Displacement, Tribals, Orissa (Odisha), Andhra Pradesh, Migratory Species, Forest Rights Act 2006
Wildlife

Seeing the Elephant in the room: Human-elephant conflict and the ETF report

The report of the Elephant Task Force acknowledges the gravity of human-elephant conflicts, and makes a set of potentially far-reaching and forward-looking suggestions to alleviate them. The spirit of most of them is admirable and positive, but the devil, as always, is in the implementation.

Publication Date: 
03/12/2010
M D Madhusudan, Pavithra Sankaran
Economic and Political Weekly
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Wildlife, Elephant, People - Animal Conflicts, India, Agriculture, Farmers, Bandipur NP, Chamarajnagar (D), Karnataka, Wildlife Management, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Public Participation

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