Wildlife

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Development Projects near Wildlife Habitats, 22/12/2017

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Development Projects near Wildlife Habitats, 22/12/2017. Census of elephant is undertaken at the national level once in every five years. State-wise/UTs wise and region wise comparative estimated population of elephants of 2012 and 2017 as available in the Ministry are given in Annexure-I.

Publication Date:

Friday, December 22, 2017

Source: Lok Sabha

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Wildlife, Elephant, Tiger Reserves, India, Statistics, Parliament, People - Animal Conflicts

Wildlife

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Development Projects near Wildlife Habitats, 22/12/2017

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Development Projects near Wildlife Habitats, 22/12/2017. Census of elephant is undertaken at the national level once in every five years. State-wise/UTs wise and region wise comparative estimated population of elephants of 2012 and 2017 as available in the Ministry are given in Annexure-I.

Publication Date:

Friday, December 22, 2017

Source: Lok Sabha

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Wildlife, Elephant, Tiger Reserves, India, Statistics, Parliament, People - Animal Conflicts

Wildlife

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Compensation to Displaced Families, 22/12/2017

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Compensation to Displaced Families, 22/12/2017. Funding assistance for voluntary village relocation from notified core/critical tiger habitat of a tiger reserve and other Protected Areas on receipt of requests from the state Governments is provided under Centrally Sponsored Scheme of ‘Project Tiger’ and ‘Integrated Development of Wildlife Habitats’. Details of compensation paid for the voluntary village relocation under these Centrally Sponsored Schemes during last three years and current year is at Annexure-I.

Publication Date:

Friday, December 22, 2017

Source: Lok Sabha

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Relocation, Displacement, Compensation, Protected Area Conservation, India, Statistics, Parliament

Wildlife

Illegal wildlife trade is one of the biggest threats to endangered species – and the UK is a key player

This multibillion-pound industry increasingly involves organised crime groups, who see wildlife as a low-risk route to profit

Publication Date:

21/12/2017

Source: Independent (United Kingdom)

Tags:

Wildlife, Illegal Trade, Endangered Species, Global, United Kingdom (UK), Malaysia

Wildlife

Government sets up Sable Antelope Protection Executive Committee

The new entity is coordinated by the State Minister and Head of the President’s Civil Office, which also includes the Ministers of National Defense, Interior, Environment, Hotels and Tourism and th

Publication Date:

21/12/2017

Source: Angola Press

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Wildlife, Endangered Species, Antelope, Angola, Wildlife Management, Africa

Wildlife

Ivory towers: an assessment of Japan’s ivory trade and domestic market

Japan remains one of the world’s largest domestic ivory markets, and is home to an active, though shrinking, ivory manufacturing industry. The country also boasts significant stockpiles of raw tusks in private ownership—a cultural legacy from its past trade.

Publication Date:

20/12/2017

Author(s): Tomomi Kitade, Ryoko Nishino

Source: TRAFFIC

Tags:

Wildlife Trade, Illegal Trade, Poaching, Elephant, Japan

Wildlife

Elephant poaching nosedives

TAWIRI Director General, Dr Simon Mduma insists that through aerial surveys and spatial analysis, the team revealed that poachers preferred to operate in the wet season – when swollen rivers mean t

Publication Date:

20/12/2017

Source: Daily News (Tanzania)

Tags:

Wildlife, Poaching, Tanzania, Illegal Trade, Africa

Wildlife

Japan’s inaction on illegal ivory exports threatens Chinese ban, report says

Japan’s failure to prevent illegal ivory exports could undermine China’s forthcoming ban on its domestic ivory trade, conservation groups have warned.

Publication Date:

20/12/2017

Source: Guardian (UK)

Tags:

Wildlife, Poaching, Japan, China, Illegal Trade, Elephant, Africa

Wildlife

Recent changes in populations of critically endangered Gyps vultures in India

Populations of the White-rumped Vulture Gyps bengalensis, Indian Vulture G. indicus and Slender-billed Vulture G. tenuirostris declined rapidly during the mid-1990s all over their ranges in the Indian subcontinent because of poisoning due to veterinary use of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac. This paper reports results from the latest in a series of road transect surveys conducted across northern, central, western and north-eastern India since the early 1990s. Results from the seven comparable surveys now available were analysed to estimate recent population trends.

Publication Date:

19/12/2017

Author(s): Vibhu Prakash, Toby H. Galligan, Soumya S. Chakraborty & et al

Source: Bird Conservation International

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Tags:

Vulture, Endangered Species, India, Pesticide Use, Statistics, Remote Sensing, Birds, Wildlife, Drugs

Environment