DIBRUGARH, Sept 11: The future of the government plan to move a few rhinos from Kaziranga National Park to other areas will be decided after animal experts ascertain the causes which made a translocated animal to move out of its new habitat.

Neha Sinha

New Delhi, September 2: Madhya Pradesh is set to go ahead with an elaborate plan to radio-collar and translocate gaur or the Indian Bison, a Schedule 1 protected animal, to the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve from the Kanha Tiger Reserve 200 km away, though a herd of the animal is naturally moving towards Bandhavgarh.

Vultures at risk, Govt bans drug used on livestockead Ranthambore tigress

PALAKKAD: The Government will initiate steps to declare the Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary as the second tiger reserve in the State by the end of the current financial year, according to Forest Minister Benoy Viswom.

The Minister was speaking after flagging off the four safari buses to the Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary at a function held in Aanapady on Tuesday.

He said that the first reserve was the Periyar sanctuary.

By Sanjay Gubbi

Political will and commitment plays a crucial role in all issues, including wildlife conservation.

I was pleasantly surprised by the Karnataka state budget. There were some points that were aimed at protecting biodiversity, a non-popular issue. The government had announced taxes on exploitation of mining resources and setting up of a taskforce to guide conservation of the ecologically critical Western Ghats.

S. Anil Radhakrishnan

KATTAKADA: Releasing the pachyderms Ammu, Minna and Jaysree to the enclosures, Minister for Forest Benoy Viswom inaugurated the first phase of the Elephant Rehabilitation Centre being set up at Kappucaud near Kottoor in the Agasthyavanam Biological Park.

The Minister, who was accompanied by Varkala Radhakrishnan, MP; G. Karthikeyan, MLA; presidents of the local bodies and forest officials, was greeted by Ammu and Minna by offering rose flowers. The Minister offered banana and jaggery to the elephants.

CHENNAI: The elephant population in the State is reasonably stable, according to R. Sukumar, professor and chairman of the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Prof. Sukumar, who was here recently, told The Hindu that in the past few years, the incidence of poaching had come down all over the country, and this could be one of the reasons for the stabilisation of the elephant population.

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