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DU scientists discover frog in Assam, name it after Northeast

A team of scientists from Delhi University and the Wildlife Institute of India, in collaboration with researchers from Indonesia and the US, have discovered a new species of ‘paddy frog’ from North

Publication Date: 
12/06/2019
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Assam, Scientists, Frogs
Wildlife

Kerala to amend jumbo rules

The government will amend the rules to ensure that captive elephants in the State are looked after well, Minister for Forests K. Raju has said.

Publication Date: 
11/06/2019
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Kerala, Elephant, Animal Care, Supreme Court
Wildlife

Proximity to unconventional shale gas infrastructure alters breeding bird abundance and distribution

Unconventional shale gas development is a rapidly expanding driver of forest loss and fragmentation in the central Appalachian region. The researchers evaluated the relationship between breeding passerine abundances and distance from shale gas development at a long-term (2008–2017) study site in northern West Virginia, USA.

Publication Date: 
11/06/2019
Laura S. Farwell, Petra B. Wood, 2 Donald J. Brown & et al
The Condor
1-20
Tags:
infrastructure, Birds, Land Use, United States Of America (US), Roads, Wildlife
Wildlife

Odisha deer park faces closure

The three-decade-old deer park on Berhampur University campus in Ganjam district is all set to be shut and its animals shifted to Gajapati district.

Publication Date: 
07/06/2019
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Odisha, Deer, Gajapati
Wildlife

Reducing demand for illegal wildlife: choosing the right messenger

These Good Practice Guidelines identify principles for choosing the right messenger for communications aimed at reducing demand for illegal wildlife products.

Publication Date: 
04/06/2019
TRAFFIC
Tags:
Illegal Trade, Wildlife Trade, Wildlife
Wildlife

Nearly 60 per cent of mammals extinct in 44 yrs

The report ‘Living Planet’ is released every two years, and keeps track of around 4,000 species spread across nearly 17,000 population of the planet.

Publication Date: 
03/06/2019
Deccan Chronicle (Telangana)
Tags:
WWF, Amazon, Mammals, Birds, Wildlife Act 1972, Wildlife
Health

Primary structural differences at residue 226 of deer and elk PrP dictate selection of distinct CWD prion strains in gene-targeted mice

Although the unifying hallmark of prion diseases is CNS neurodegeneration caused by conformational corruption of host prion protein (PrP) to its infective counterpart, contagious transmission of chronic wasting disease (CWD) results from shedding of prions produced at high titers in the periphery of diseased cervids. While deer and elk

Publication Date: 
30/05/2019
Jifeng Bian, Jeffrey R. Christiansen, Julie A. Moreno & et al
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1-10
Tags:
Animal Diseases, Health Effects, Wildlife, Research
Wildlife

30 turtles spotted in Neknampur lake this year, count likely to rise

Hyderabad: There has been an increase in the number of turtles at the Neknampur lake.

Publication Date: 
30/05/2019
Times Of India (Hyderabad)
Tags:
Telangana, Turtles, NGO, WWF, Poaching, Wildlife
Wildlife

CS holds meet over shifting of villages from 3 tiger reserves

Jaipur: Chief secretary D B Gupta on Tuesday took a meeting of the wildlife officials to discuss relocation of villages from three tiger reserves in Rajasthan.

Publication Date: 
29/05/2019
Times Of India (Jaipur)
Tags:
Rajasthan, Displacement, Compensation, Tiger Reserves, Wildlife
Wildlife

World Health Organisation’s recognition of traditional Chinese medicine ‘could push species into extinction’

Conservationists have accused the World Health Organisation (WHO) of rubber-stamping the extinction of endangered species by adopting hundreds of traditional Chinese remedies in its international g

Publication Date: 
29/05/2019
Independent (United Kingdom)
Tags:
Wildlife, China, WHO, Endangered Species, Rhinoceros, Tiger, Asia

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