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I Remember Elephants

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Late last month, while searching for bears , woodpeckers and spirits of Greece, I deliberately avoided checking any news, especially from my home country. We are facing a plague of poaching that is again decimating the species. But the “illegal international trade” is already there, killing – among other places – in Kruger (S.

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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

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India, February 2013. These days, the species shares habitats with Tigers, Snow Leopard, Bears, etc. If they can survive next to such neigbours, how come they are endangered? According to IUCN , because of illegal hunting and habitat degradation across most of Indochina, ungulates occur at levels well below natural.

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

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Maharashtra, February 2013. There’s a Sloth Bear in tall, dry grass, barely 50 metres from us, but all we can see is a dark, shape-shifting shadow that eventually becomes all but invisible. Conservation endangered species India Mammals tiger' The Telia Lake. Cover photo: Telia, copyright © Nitin Bhardwaj.

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