Lying on a shady patch of grass under the hot Mexico sun, Zazil, a female spotted jaguar stretches her limbs. Born in captivity, she is a top candidate to help boost wild populations of this magnificent, endangered species. Reino Animal, a sprawling animal conservation park some 56 kilometres (35 miles) northeast from Mexico City, plans to move one of their female jaguars and her future cubs to its new facility next spring. A jaguar is seen at the jaguar sanctuary inside of Reino Animal Conservation Park, in Oxtotipac, State of Mexico, Mexico, November 2022. Reino Animal/ Handout via REUTERS After two years without human interaction, it plans to release the cubs into the wild. Animals bred in captivity in contact with humans or those rescued from the exotic pet trade cannot be se...
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The Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary (PWS) in Assam, famed for the one-horned Great Indian Rhinoceros, reopened for tourists from Friday after remaining shut during the monsoon season. Minister and local MLA Piyus Hazarika, who declared it open, and his wife Aimee Baruah took a tour of the sanctuary with jeep and elephant safaris. Roads inside the wildlife park in central Morigaon district, which were damaged due to floods this year, were repaired before reopening, PWS officials said. The 38.85 square km sanctuary has over 100 Great Indian Rhinoceros within a 16 sq km area found suitable for habitation, they said. Besides the rhinoceros, it is home to wild buffaloes, barking deers, hog deers, leopards, different species of snakes, birds and tortoise. Last year, PWS had witnesse...
Read MoreAssam Minister for Environment and Forest Parimal Suklabaidya on Saturday formally inaugurated the Dihing Patkai National Park. It is a red-letter day for Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts and the state as a whole that the Dihing Patkai has been created as the seventh National Park, the minister said at a function organised here to mark the occasion. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had declared Dihing Patkai as a National Park on June 5 - the World Environment Day- and the official process was completed with the publication of the notification on June 15. The rich floral and faunal diversity of the park, well known for its rainforest, will soon attain the stature of one of the best national parks in the country, the minister said. He called upon everyone to live in compl...
Read MoreAssam got its seventh national park, two within a week, with a notification declaring Dehing-Patkai as so on Wednesday, state Environment and Forest Minister Parimal Suklabaidya said. The Raimona National Park in the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) was notified as the sixth such park on the occasion of World Environment Day on June 5. The state now has the second highest number of national parks in the country. Madhya Pradesh and Andaman and Nicobar Islands have nine national parks each, the minister said in a statement. "The newly created national parks will help boost conservation efforts and also provide fillip to tourism and agriculture sectors," Suklabaidya said. The newest national park, popularly known as Dehing Patkai Rain Forest, has unique floral and faunal div...
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