There are whispered ‘hurrays!’ among numerous wildlife conservationists of the country. The population of Indian rhinos or one horned rhinos living in Assam has increased by 27 percent in the last sevenRead More…
Rhinos (Rhinoceros unicornis) at Kaziranga National Park are not safe. Yet again, on Sunday one of the adult female rhinos of the park was killed and its horn chopped off by poachers.Read More…
In yet another incidence of illegal killing of protected wildlife, poachers managed to kill an adult male rhino and get away with its horn in the Kaziranga National Park in Assam. WithRead More…
RESEARCH: For a species to survive well in the planet the existing members should live safely in a healthy environment and the birth of future generations should continue at a regular pace.Read More…
POACHING: We are barely two months into the new-year, and the number of rhinoceros that have fallen to poaching this year has already reached seven. While five rhinos were killed in January,Read More…
India’s Environment and Forest Minister Jayanti Natarajan has informed that this year, 28 elephants, 3 tigers and 1 rhino have died due to road, rail accidents and electrocution across all states inRead More…
(Some images used in the article may be discomforting) POACHING: The Orang National Park located on the north bank of the Brahmaputra River in the Darrang and Sonitpur districts of Assam, India,Read More…
POACHING: Today is World Rhinoceros Day; a day to celebrate a magnificent animal that evolved about 50 million years ago from the first mammals that developed hooves. But the animal bestowed withRead More…
CONSERVATION CONCERN: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) more popularly referred to as drones, are successfully being integrated for forest and wildlife surveillance across the globe. However, the apprehensions of the Indian defence ministryRead More…
Baby news is always good news, but this baby is special because it was born in the wild of a rhino mom who was hand raised by humans!
Instead of being a protected reserve, the Kaziranga National Park of Assam, India has turned into a battleground between the poachers and the protectors. It is the rhinos that are in danger. Will they be able to survive? Yes, if better technogly is used for protection.
It is not men at war in the jungles of Assam and rest of the country, but the battle between vintage guns held by forest guards and new age ammunitions by poachers.The rotting corpses of the rhinos killed everyday are proof of who is winning this one sided war.
From Asian elephants to a sawfish called zijsron, get to know interesting facts about Indian endangered species from A to Z!
The year that went by could have been remembered for being the year that Western Ghats became a world heritage site or the year when Asiatic Lions were no more considered Critically Endangered. But ruining the joys of all the positive is one scar constantly surfacing as a conservationist’s worst nightmare. 2012 recorded the largest number of killings of endangered animals in India making it the worst poaching year in the last decade.
Poachers’ task to wipe away wildlife in Asia and Africa, has just been made tougher by Google. World Wildlife Fund (WWF) today received a major grant from Google to use state-of-the-art technology to help protect endangered species like elephants, rhinos and tigers from poachers and wildlife traffickers.