Critter News

AUGUST 1, 2009

India is to amend its wildlife crime laws to protect the country's tigers, a government minister said. He added that the forest ministry, state governments and a separate authority on the management of tiger reserves had agreed to work together to ensure conservation of the endangered animal. But is it enough?

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Tigers India Protection Endangered Species 100

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NOVEMBER 27, 2014

Target for today: critically endangered Sociable Lapwing ( Vanellus gregarius ). The official definition of CR status says the species could be gone within ten years, or could lose 80 per cent of its population within three generations – whichever comes first. Trips endangered species India lapwings Sociable Lapwing'

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JULY 25, 2013

There are some seven birds among the 100 most endangered species on the planet on the list of fauna and flora listed as the rarest by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Zoological Society of London – and this morning, I am after one of those! Trips Great Indian Bustard India' Males reach 1.2

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India Gazelles Endangered Species Pakistan 242

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JULY 9, 2015

India, February 2013. I am camping in the dry-deciduous jungle in eastern Maharashtra, near the geographic heart of India. Birds included common species such as Black Drongos , Jungle Babblers and a Hoopoe. These days, the species shares habitats with Tigers, Snow Leopard, Bears, etc. It is February and evenings are cold.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

This article says India is losing more than one a day. Tags: India leopard endangered species. You don't hear much about leopards. Tigers are the ones getting most of the attention. But they are seriously threatened by extinction too.

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Leopards Endangered Species India Tigers 100

Critter News

OCTOBER 9, 2010

A coordinated international law enforcement operation has led to the arrest of 25 individuals suspected of taking part in the illicit trade of tigers, one of the world's most endangered species. Tags: wildlife smuggling tigers interpol asia endangered species.

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International Fund For Animal Welfare Tigers IFAW Nepal 100

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JANUARY 22, 2015

There’s a Three-striped Palm Squirrel by the side of the track, while Jungle Bush Quails are running across it in front of our Maruti Gypsy, almost the official safari vehicle of India. At least 274 tigers have died in India in the last four years, more than 70 per cent of them due to poaching. Some results may already be visible.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Of the 11, India, China and Nepal ranked highest in the number of tiger part seizures, the report states, with India by far the highest number of Tiger part seizures at 276, representing between 469 and 533 Tigers. Tags: India wildlife trafficking poaching tigers china endangered species.

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Tigers Nepal India Trafficking 100

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FEBRUARY 19, 2013

In India, everything takes about three times longer than you expect it to. Road birding along India’s main roads is surprisingly productive, but here, where there are no power lines or fences and even the barest impression of a road, there was little to see. It was a bird not on many people’s radar. Certainly not mine.

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APRIL 15, 2011

Here are the clues: 1. Some references indicate that this country has nearly 900 different species of birds. 3. Corey has written about one of the species, which I will most likely see when I go. 5. And another list shows 6 endemics and 11 endangered species. No plans yet, sigh.

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2011 Myanmar Bolivia Venezuela 150

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JUNE 1, 2012

It turns out that the steppe is one of the places tulips come from and is a center of tulip species diversity. Another oft-quoted account is that of Lopo Vaz de Sampayo, governor of the Portuguese possessions in India. No, no, and no! The Dutch didn’t get tulips until at least the mid to late 1500s.

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Sri Lanka Kazakhstan 2009 Portugal 197

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MARCH 13, 2012

Even in the tropics there are few birds that excel some of our own in elegance and beauty of plumage and we have an unusually large number of species considering the smallness of the area they inhabit. ” (Woodward brothers, “Natal Birds”, 1899) The mighty Drakensberg Mountains run along the western boundary of KwaZulu-Natal province.

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Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 188

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DECEMBER 27, 2013

My best bird of the year is based on the sighting rather than the species. Obviously my best bird of the year is going to come during this trip, what with several species of endemic pitta and broadbill possible, not to mention 8 species of hornbill and numerous babblers, storks, kingfishers, trogons and even the endemic Bornean Bristlehead.

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2013 Birds Costa Rica India 167