Police department officials confirmed that four black bucks were hunted down by poachers in Sehore district, Madhya Pradesh. ...
06:15 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Suspected poachers have yet again killed two rhinos in Assam, including one near the high-security Kaziranga National Park within less than 24 hours, and decamped with their horns, forest officials said Tuesday. While the forest officials recovered a rhino carcass Sunday night at Burhapahar range of the national park, a UNESCO world heritage site, the other was recovered Tuesday morning at Silimkhowa in Karbi Anglong district. ...
07:25 PM, Jan 29, 2013
Guwahati: The death of 39 rhinos in and around the world-famous Kaziranga National Park in less than 10 months has brought to the fore the threat faced by the endangered animal. The threat comes from poachers, who kill the rare one-horned rhinoceros for its prized horn whose price in the international market varies from Rs 40 lakh to Rs 90 lakh, and flood which is an annual occurrence in Assam....
11:00 AM, Oct 05, 2012
CNN-IBN Environment Editor Bahar Dutt spoke to Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan on what steps are being taken to save the rhino in Assam. In the last four days, seven rhinos have been killed in the world-famous Kaziranga National Park. Rhinos are specially vulnerable to poachers as their horns sell for millions of dollars in the illegal international trade in wildlife. Kaziranga National Park in fact is considered to be the ...
11:51 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Kohara: A Rhinoceros' horn was cut by poachers and the animal was later found conscious by Kaziranga National Park authorities. A medical team is working on stabling the wounded animal. This is the second such incident reported from Kaziranga National Park. Two days back, a Rhinoceros was killed in the flood-affected area of the national park and its horns were taken away by poachers. ...
03:31 PM, Sep 26, 2012
Itanagar: A tigress was killed and hacked into pieces in her enclosure by poachers at Itanagar zoo on Tuesday. The poachers broke in and killed the six-year-old tigress on Tuesday night reportedly taking advantage of the absence of the three guards on duty. The guards had gone for their dinner and found the hacked tigress carcass in the enclosure. Investigation was on to nab the culprits and the forest department...
09:35 AM, Sep 26, 2012
Bangalore: Even as the Supreme Court's order to ban tourism in core areas of tiger reserves is being hailed by wildlife conservationists, disconcerting news trickles down from Madumalai and Bandipur tiger reserves that hard-core poachers are still at large in the forests of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Close on the heels of ten notorious poachers being arrested from the BR Temple tiger reserve, a poacher was arrested deep inside the...
04:07 PM, Jul 25, 2012
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has come down heavily on poachers. State Forest Minister Patangrao Kadam has issued 'shoot-at-sight' orders to the forest guards if they saw any poacher hunting or laying traps in tiger reserves. The orders have been in place for the past 10 years but the field staff have been reluctant to implement them as some forest guards were being booked for violating human rights despite the government...
08:27 AM, May 23, 2012
Here are reviews of Shamim Padamsee's books 'Rebels in Rajasthan' and 'Poachers in Paradise' by an eight-year-old, Arunima Kaul, the books are published by Penguin India. Book: Rebels in Rajasthan; Author: Shamim Padamsee This story is about a flying magic jharokha, invented by Uncle Jadoo who disappeared. He had been kidnapped by an evil djinn. The jharokha can take you anywhere you want. Vayu and Deeya have to find seven...
04:56 PM, Feb 08, 2012
The forest guards at Kaziranga National Park are facing tough times. ...
01:35 PM, Aug 08, 2007
Hunters have telescopic rifles and guards have antiques. ...
06:44 PM, Jul 22, 2007
In a Zoo in Orissa a tigress is struggling to survive after she 11 times was shot by poachers more two months ago. ...
03:59 PM, Jun 06, 2007
CNN-IBN's SIT travells to the Melghat tiger reserve in Maharashtra to find out how poaching is killing India's pride. ...
08:55 AM, Feb 25, 2007
