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September 24, 20201816 Views

केरल में ही कई ऐसे नेशनल पार्क व वाइल्डलाइफ रिजर्व हैं जो सैलानियों के बीच बहुत लोकप्रिय हैं। लेकिन साइलेंट वैली नेशनल पार्क उन सबसे बहुत अलग है। यहां जो जैव विविधता है, वह कहीं और देखने को नहीं मिलती। यहां जो सुकून है, और जो शांति है, वह भी कहीं और मिलनी मुश्किल ही है। तो जंगल में नीरवता कोई खास बात नहीं। लेकिन किसी वन में इतनी खामोशी हो कि वहां झिंगुरों तक की आवाज सुनाई न दे, तो वाकई हैरानी होती है। दरअसल साइलेंट वैली को अपना नाम इसी खासियत के चलते मिला। साइलेंट वैली यानी खामोश घाटी। लेकिन इस खामोश वन में भी जैव-विविधता की अद्भुत भरमार है। हकीकत तो यह है कि जिस तरह की जैव विविधता यहां देखने को मिलती है, वैसी पश्चिमी घाट में और कहीं नहीं मिलेगी। यहां के कुछ वनस्पति और जीव-जंतु तो पूरी दुनिया में दुर्लभ हैं। कुदरत का यह अनमोल खजाना नीलगिरी पहाडिय़ों में है। साइले...

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Intelligence helps Namibia turn tide against rhino poachers

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

September 22, 2020657 Views

Incidents of rhino poaching in Namibia have been dropping steadily as timely intelligence work has helped nab hunters before they shoot in known hotspots, the government said on Tuesday. Joint police and government task forces have proven “extremely successful”, the spokesman for the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism said, with intelligence enabling a proactive, rather than reactive, response. “Instead of the discovery of a dead rhino initiating an investigation, would-be poachers are now regularly arrested while they are still conspiring to kill a rhino,” Romeo Muyunda said in a statement celebrating World Rhino Day. It said just 22 rhinos have been poached in Namibia so far this year, down from 46 in 2019, 78 in 2018, 55 in 2017 and 61 in 2016. Of 88 arrests ...

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West Bengal to open its forests for tourists from Sep 23

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

September 18, 20201080 Views1

Forests in West Bengal will be opened for tourists from September 23, officials have said. Every year the forests close down for two months due to the monsoon -- from July 15 to September 15, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic the forests have been out of bounds for tourists since the beginning of the lockdown in March, they said. Wild elephants at Dooars The state government decided to open the forests ahead of the festive season as the prolonged closure was bleeding the tourism economy, they added. The forests of West Bengal are like none other. Forests are strewn across the state from the northernmost tip, on the slopes of the high Himalayas, to the Dooars in the foothills, through several lesser-known forest, in the western tracts of the state and the fertile Gangetic pl...

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Odisha to set up elephant rehabilitation centre

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

September 16, 2020504 Views

Odisha will soon have an elephant rehabilitation centre for conservation and protection of the jumbos, a senior official said. The rehabilitation centre will help injured elephants and those who got separated from the herd, the official said. Odisha Forest and Environment Minister BK Arukha has laid the foundation stone for the Elephant Rehabilitation Centre at Kumarkhunti in Chandaka-Dampada sanctuary close to the state capital on Monday. The project will become a milestone in conservation and protection of elephants, the minister said, adding that arrangements have been made to complete the centre within three months. The rehabilitation centre will be built in 10 hectare of land at an estimated expenditure of Rs 6 crore. The project has already been cleared by the Centre, t...

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Two-thirds of world’s wildlife lost in just 46 years

UPENDRA SWAMI

September 10, 2020579 Views

Continued natural habitat loss increased the risk of future pandemics as humans expand their presence into ever closer contact with wild animals The average size of wildlife populations has plummeted more than two-thirds in less than 50 years because of deforestation and rampant overconsumption. Experts said on Thursday that the warning was to protect nature in order to save itself. According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) annual Living Planet report, human activity has severely degraded three-quarters of all land and 40 percent of the Earth's oceans, an accelerating destruction of nature that will have untold consequences on health and livelihoods. “The global Living Planet Index continues to decline. It shows an average 68% decrease in population sizes of mammals, birds, amp...

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Celebrating the Whale Shark, World’s largest fish

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

September 1, 2020855 Views

Stakeholders from across the world came together at an online event to commemorate International Whale Shark Day that falls on 30 August. Sixteen years after pioneering a deep dive into whale shark conservation, Wildlife Trust of India and their partner Tata Chemicals Limited have much to celebrate with the Gujarat Forest Department and the fishing community along the coast of this maritime state. Whale shark, the world’s largest fish is endangered and the first species of fish to enjoy protection at par to that of the tigers, lions and elephants in India. Large scale hunting of the whale shark in Gujarat had prompted Wildlife Trust of India to launch a campaign with Tata Chemicals Limited in 2004. Covering prominent coastal towns and villages in the state, the campaign message ...

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Mauritius fishermen battle to save dozens of dolphins near oil spill

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August 30, 2020638 Views

Fishermen battled on Sunday to save dozens of injured dolphins washed ashore in Mauritius where in recent days at least 40 of the animals were found dead in a lagoon near the site of an oil spill from a Japanese bulk carrier which struck a coral reef. Yasfeer Heenaye, a fisherman near Pointe aux Feuilles on the island’s eastern shore, said he had counted at least 45 dead dolphins since they were first discovered on Wednesday, and said half a dozen more dolphins were in the bay fighting for their lives. He said he believed the animals’ vision was impaired by the spilled oil, which is how they ended up on the reef where they sustained fatal injuries. Dolphins are seen as they swim near the shore of the Indian Ocean near Pointe aux Feuilles, Mauritius August 28, 2020. Picture taken ...

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Seven more dolphins found dead on Mauritius beach near oil spill

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August 27, 2020820 Views

Seven more dead dolphins were found on a Mauritius beach on Thursday, a government official said, a day after 17 carcasses were washed up near an oil spill caused by a Japanese ship that struck a coral reef. “We found seven more dolphins this morning in a state of decomposition,” Jasvin Sok Appadu from the fisheries ministry told Reuters. A carcass of a dolphin that died and was washed up on shore is seen at the Grand Sable, Mauritius, August 26. REUTERS/Beekash Roopun/L'Express Maurice The cause of death of 25 dolphins that washed up in Mauritius near the site of an oil spill remains unclear after two of the animals showed no trace of oil in their bodies, a preliminary autopsy report showed on Thursday. “The preliminary results show that the animals did not have trace of hydr...

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Securing Thirunelli-Kudrakote elephant corridor was first project of its kind

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

August 12, 20201711 Views

On the eve of the World Elephant Day, Wildlife Trust of India released their Conservation Action Report on securing the Thirunelli – Kudrakote elephant corridor. The Thirunelli – Kudrakote Elephant corridor connects the Brahmagiri Wildlife Sanctuary, Karnataka with the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala and connects a much larger wildlife habitat extending from Bannerghata, Karnataka to Wayanad Sanctuary. WTI’s data shows that pre-relocation of these families, 100% of the corridor resident families faced regular conflicts with wildlife (elephant, wild pig, deer and bonnet macaque). Over 90% of the relocated families agreed that the new locations were largely free from wild animal encounters and attacks and had better access to roads, schools, hospitals and ancillary facilities. This re...

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India’s Tiger Census sets a New Guinness Record

UPENDRA SWAMI

July 12, 20201042 Views

The fourth cycle of the All India Tiger Estimation 2018, has entered the Guinness World Record for being the world’s largest camera trap wildlife survey. The citation at the Guinness World Record website reads- “The fourth iteration of the survey – conducted in 2018-19 - was the most comprehensive to date, in terms of both resource and data amassed. Camera traps (outdoor photographic devices fitted with motion sensors that start recording when an animal passes by) were placed in 26,838 locations across 141 different sites and surveyed an effective area of 121,337 square kilometres (46,848 square miles). In total, the camera traps captured 34,858,623 photographs of wildlife (76,651 of which were tigers and 51,777 were leopards; the remainder were other native fauna). From these photog...