NEW DELHI: A tigress on the prowl in the villages of UP's Moradabad district was declared a maneater on Thursday even as nine human deaths were reported in the past 11 days in big cat attacks across the country, pointing to increasing man-animal conflict in the peripheries of protected forests.
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DONGGUAN, Guangdong, China, January 6, 2014 (ENS) – To protect elephants from ivory poachers by destroying the black market value of their tusks, the Chinese government today conducted the country’s the first public ivory crush. In the southern city of Dongguan, 6.15 metric tonnes of raw tusks a
JAIPUR: It was indeed a happy new year forRanthambore tiger reserve with the park waking up to the news of three more cubs joining its fraternity. Tigress T-13 was caught in a trap camera taking a stroll with three newly born cubs.
Though the birth of the cubs was being speculated for sometime
AHMEDABAD: The king of the jungle has conquered new territories. About one-third of the Saurashtra region has been marked as Asiatic lion-inhabited areas by the state forest department. A recent study based on frequent lion kills and compensation given to farmers says the big cats rule over a hu
NEW DELHI: The National Tiger Conservation Authority has refused to give its nod for reintroduction of white tigers in Madhya Pradesh saying they have no "conservation value", a decision that may come as a setback to the state's efforts to secure these rare species.
The decision was taken someti
