Critter News
JANUARY 4, 2010
From the Economic Times (part of the India Times, I think). India’s newfound partnership with China on environment issues has yielded results in the area of tiger protection as well. What kind of protection do they really mean? You can put tigers on a farm for legal parts harvesting and still call it "protection."
10,000 Birds
JULY 9, 2015
India, February 2013. I am camping in the dry-deciduous jungle in eastern Maharashtra, near the geographic heart of India. According to IUCN , because of illegal hunting and habitat degradation across most of Indochina, ungulates occur at levels well below natural. Only in protected areas in southern and central India (e.g.
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Critter News
AUGUST 3, 2011
The Indian government has decided to add bulls to the list of animals protected from entertainment uses. There are still illegal events though. This prevents them from being exploited in Goa, an Indian state that had considered reviving the tradition. a Portuguese-American, I can say that.)
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 19, 2019
This was only my second time ever to observe this subspecies (the first time was here as well), two other subspecies I have observed in India. The only wildcat I found was illegally killed by hunters during closed season. They may have been disturbed by the presence of hunters in the Danube backwaters.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 3, 2013
Finally, when our SUV broke down in Gujarat, India, some three years ago, my first two Egyptians were flying above the road! In 2010, a joint expedition by the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB) and the Sudanese Wildlife Society (SWS) found a further 17 electrocuted Egyptian Vultures.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Another advantage to ballistic food transport is that the fruit seeds are protected from damage when they are swallowed whole. Other threats arise from illegal logging, hunting for bushmeat, and other body parts (feathers, beak, etc.) Of course, their own mother is not the only threat to Wreathed Hornbill individuals.
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