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India Reaches Out to Neighbors to Save Tigers

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Anyway, India is appealing to its other neighbors which would include Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar. Tags: India poaching tigers china endangered species.

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Where Have You Gone, Rhodonessa caryophyllacea?

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Such is the case with the Pink-headed Duck , Rhodonessa caryophyllacea , a native of India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. We can draw matters out according to our own inclinations of hope or despair. But when it comes to the moment of extinction, often we cannot know. Is it extinct? The debate has raged since the 1950s.

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Mammals of South Asia (Lynx Edicions)

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I was lucky to visit India several times, but as a keen birder I carried along only a bird book, and even upgraded it to a new edition between the trips. Beside India, Lynx Illustrated Checklist of the Mammals of South Asia covers Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. I clearly needed a mammal book.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

It only takes a little imagination to suppose that every bite of hamburger we eat is taking grain away from a hungry child in India. In 1974 we shipped four times as much food to Cambodia and South Vietnam as to starving Bangladesh and Swahelian Africa.

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Birding Nabang, Yunnan (1)

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Another common way for these birds to die is on roads – a study in a forest district in Maharashtra, India found that the Greater Coucal was the most dominant species found dead in road vehicle collisions. When teachers are not teaching, what do they do? The Latin species name of the Orange-bellied Leafbird is hardwickii.