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Kashmir emporium manager arrested with Shahtoosh shawls
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New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) The manager of the Jammu and Kashmir handicrafts emporium here has been arrested for trying to sell three Shahtoosh shawls made from the wool of a threatened Tibetan antelope.“Mushtaq Ahmed was arrested Thursday for possessing these shawls. He has been sent to judicial custody,” a Central ...2 days ago -
Three held with skins of spotted deer
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Lucknow, Nov 26 (IANS) Three people have been arrested with skins of four spotted deer in Uttar Pradesh’s Balrampur district, near the India-Nepal border, a forest official said Thursday.Acting on a tip-off, police and forest officials nabbed the three men Wednesday night along with the carcasses of the animals at ...1 week ago -
California Implements New Rules to Protect Salmon Streams
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Logging has been banned from within 30 feet of certain streams that are well, suited for spawning and for feeder streams to spawning ground. The shade from trees near such streams keep the water cooler to enable successful reproduction.Ti Related Entries: California Attorney General Puts Breitbarts Pimp and Ho ...1 week ago -
Tiger poacher arrested in Uttarakhand
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New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) A notorious tiger poacher was arrested in the Champawat district of Uttarakhand by a joint team of the police and forest department, an NGO which helped in his capture said.Birbal alias Totha Ram, was arrested along with an associate Wednesday after a tip-off given by the Wildlife Protection ...2 weeks ago -
2 Thais nabbed on charges of trading African ivory
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By MICHAEL CASEY (AP) BANGKOK — Thai police arrested two men on charges of smuggling African ivory into the country to supply shops that sell jewelry and trinkets, including to customers in the United States, authorities said Tuesday. Police said the arrests were the result of Thai efforts to more strictly enforce ...2 weeks ago -
Elephant dung: Source of livelihood, mosquito repellant
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By Imran KhanSonepur (Bihar), Nov 18 (IANS) Munia Devi and her son Bholua look forward to the world-famous cattle fair that takes place here every year. They can’t afford to buy any animal, but they make a neat packet selling elephant dung.Elephant dung is known as the poor man’s mosquito repellant. When burnt, it ...2 weeks ago -
Case against Orissa villagers for confining turtle
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Bhubaneswar, Nov 12 (IANS) Wild life officials registered a case Thursday against a temple priest and some residents of a village in Orissa’s Kendrapada district for confining a rare turtle, officials said.The case was registered against the priest and some residents of Khadipala village, about 150 km from here, for ...3 weeks ago -
The Earthrace: Whale protection just got sleeker!
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Post originally from this Gadget Blog - Digitpedia.com (this line of text is here for scrapers!) Original article: The Earthrace: Whale protection just got sleeker! The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, was founded to save the whale. They have used controversial methods to stop whaling craft in the past, and ...3 weeks ago -
Rare deer breed at Kanpur zoo
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Abhinav Malhotra – The Times of India KANPUR: Here is a piece of good news for all nature and wildlife lovers. Three Thamin deer (critically endangered specie of deer) have recently given birth to healthy fawns (one each) at the Kanpur zoological park. Thamins, which are also known as ‘Brow Antlered Deer’ or ...4 weeks ago -
Protected birds worth RM30,000 seized
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GEORGE TOWN, Fri: About RM30,000 worth of wild birds were seized on Wednesday by the state Wildlife Department, and one man was held for questioning. In the afternoon raid in Kampung Selamat, Kepala Batas, 370 Red-whiskered Bulbuls ( Pycnonotus jocosus ), 13 Hill Mynahs ( gracula religiosa ), one Sun Parakeet or Sun ...4 weeks ago -
Rescued bears brought to Vandalur zoo
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D Madhavan – The Times of India CHENNAI: Three sloth bears, rescued at a bus stand in Kuthumedu of Villupuram district by forest officials on Saturday, were brought to the Arignar Anna Zoological Park in Vandalur on Monday. “We had been asked by a court to be the custodian of the rescued animals. All the three ...4 weeks ago -
Enforce ban on killing of dolphins, DMs told
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The Times of India PATNA: Despite Ganga dolphin being included in the list of Schedule 1 of the Wildlife Protection Act, its killing continues. “The killings are taking place because its oil are used by fishermen for making baits. I have asked the authorities concerned to conduct raids and enforce the ban. The ...5 weeks ago -
Polar Bears vs. Development in Alaska
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By Stefan Milkowski – The New York Times Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell vowed last week to keep fighting the 2008 listing of the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act, even as federal managers proposed designating more than 200,000 square miles of land and ice as critical habitat for the bears. At a press ...6 weeks ago -
U.S. Maps Protected Alaska Habitat for Polar Bears
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A vast swath of icy sea, barrier islands and coastal land on Alaska’s oil-rich North Slope will be granted special protection because of its importance to the threatened polar bear, under a proposal released Thursday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The agency proposes that 200,000 square miles (518,000 sq ...6 weeks ago
