Nepal: The number of rare birds and animals, including lophophorus, is decreasing in the district due to rampant poaching and smuggling. People are found selling meat of such endangered species openly even in district headquarters Chainpur. Sources said people in Kada, Surma, Daulichaur, Rilu, Daha
India: In a serious development that has forest department officials very worried, there are indications that the motive behind the killing of a five-year-old leopard, whose body was found late Saturday night on the Shilonda trail in Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), could have been poaching.
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Nepal: A man was arrested with endangered red panda’s hide from Aryal Gaun, Gokarneshwor Municipality-14 on Tuesday.
The arrestee, 29-year-old Samin Ramtel from Jarayotar in Melamchi-7 of Sindhupalchok district, was arrested from his rented room with the hide, police said.
A team deployed from the
Nepal: A group of animal rights organisations have written to the Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation expressing concerns over the proposal on the reinstatement of the practice to gift wildlife to foreign countries.
An amendment to the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1973, which i
India: Around 50 elephants have died in the State during last 11 months in the State of which 29 cases were found to be ‘unnatural deaths’ while reasons of five deaths could not be ascertained.
This was revealed at the second Gajah Bandhu meet organised by the organised by the Wildlife Society o
