NEWS & UPDATES

Between July 2001 and October 2002, the activities of the Wild Enforcement Programme have led to 49 seizures and the arrest of 81 individuals involved in illegal wildlife trade. Most seizures have taken place in Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, and Himachal...

PAKHUI: The six of them will have to bear it just a little more. Two of them have been helped take a step closer to wilderness; the others are just biding their time. The six in question are Himalayan black bear cubs. Housed at the Itanagar Zoo, two have them...

On September 16, 2002, 400 villagers with 4,000 heads of cattle in tow entered the Ranthambore National Park. They threatened to kill the tigers and destroy the park because their own cattle had no fodder or water outside. They refused to yield and the...

New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has upgraded all species of genus Herpestes (mongooses) to Part II of Schedule II of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. The notification to do so was issued on September 30, 2002 and was published in...

Uttaranchal: The Chief Justice of Uttaranchal, Mr. Ashok Desai, asked judges of Uttaranchal courts and the state’s forest department to evolve new ways of tackling issues of environmental and forest degradation. Delivering the keynote address at The...

Dehradun: The Chief Minister of Uttaranchal, Mr ND Tiwari, presented a cheque of Rs 1 lakh to the widow of a deceased forest guard here earlier this month. The cheque was the final settlement of a supplementary accident insurance scheme that covers 50,000...

Kaziranga: Four elephants have died over the last four days in Upper Assam, according to reports reaching here. While post mortem reports are not yet available, prima facie evidence strongly suggest poisoning to be the cause for three of the four...

New Delhi: In what is one of the biggest seizures of raw shahtoosh wool in India, over 230 kgs of the wool from the highly endangered Tibetan antelope have been caught in two separate...

Haridwar: Uttaranchal Forest Minister Nav Prabhat, wildlife and forest officials, and several journalists were assaulted by shopkeepers here on Sunday during a raid on a shop illegally trading in animal...

New Delhi: The manufacture of shahtoosh shawls has finally been banned in the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), the only place in the world where they have been woven for centuries. The historic law making this possible was notified earlier this week,...

NEW DELHI: More than 1,800 illegally traded Indian Star Tortoises have been flown from Singapore to India to be reintroduced into their natural habitat after two major seizures by Singapore CITES...

NEW DELHI: More than 1,800 illegally traded Indian Star Tortoises have been flown from Singapore to India to be reintroduced into their natural habitat after two major seizures by Singapore CITES...

KAZIRANGA: The country’s first scientifically managed wildlife rehabilitation and reintroduction centre was inaugurated at Borjuri here today by the Assam Forest Minister, Mr Pradyut Bordoloi. The Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation...

New Delhi: The most prêt statement to be made at the Lakme India Fashion Week (LIFW) came from leading fashion designers and a pop icon here this evening. They said “NO TO SHAHTOOSH” and urged people not to prey on the endangered Tibetan Antelope...

KAZIRANGA: The centre may not have been officially inaugurated as yet, but it is the one which is providing much-needed succour to animals caught all on the wrong foot by rising floodwaters in the Kaziranga National Park. Personnel of the Centre for Wildlife...

The need to provide supplementary accident insurance to field forest staff in India had been felt for a long time by forest officers, as well as nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Over the years, as the demand for timber and non-timber forest produce...

Pakhui: A three-month-old elephant calf has died in the Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh. The calf, which had been badly lacerated by some carnivore, was rescued by a forest guard from a remote part of the sanctuary about a week...

LEH: Things might just finally be looking up for the Ladakh Urial. From being on the verge of extinction a few decades ago when barely a hundred grazed on the banks of the Indus and Shyok rivers in the cold desert region of Ladakh, the numbers have risen....

Chilla (RNP): A month-old elephant calf has been rescued from the throes of being carried away by swirling waters by wildlife personnel in the Haridwar forest division. Now christened Ganga, the female calf was pulled out of an irrigation canal by staff of...

New Delhi: The Union minister for Textiles, Mr Kashiram Rana’s assertion that his ministry will attempt to lift the ban on shahtoosh weaving has come as a shock to wildlife conservationists who have been campaigning for a stricter ban on shahtoosh...