27/8/07
Hunt for the Scottish poisoners. Death of female golden eagle with fledgling
chick prompts calls for crackdown on rogue gamekeepers
27/8/07
Centre fails to rein in tiger poaching. Will there be no end to poaching of
wild animals in the country? While actor Salman Khan's conviction is a rare
case of a poacher being punished, there are hundreds of tiger-killers who
are running scot-free, said a senior officer and wildlife expert.
27/8/07
High blood levels blamed for bird's death; lead bullet ban sought. Los
Angeles Zoo keepers Mike Clark and Debbie Ciani closely monitor dozens of
endangered California condors.
26/8/07
The good and bad side of WAP on your Phone or PDAs. This page will help you make better use of the Internet on your Wap or PDA system it will cover the good side and the bad side to WAP and wireless devises.
25/8/07
Media reports since the day Michael Vick was indicted on dogfighting
charges show that law enforcement is increasingly cracking down on
dogfighters, as this list of recent arrests demonstrates.
25/8/07
There are as many as 15000 wildlife crimes pending in Indian courts
including those of large-scale poaching of rare animals, trade of tiger and
leopar
24/8/07 Good news for
whales arrives this week as an Icelandic government official was quoted as
saying there is no reason to continue commercial whaling in Iceland if there
is no demand for the product.
Anthony's view this is
very good news if you are in the UK there was a TV program on the 19 August
covering this subject called Country file and what the Iceland Government
was saying about
the whaling
subject things
seem to be turning from killing to watching.
24/8/07
The Scottish Executive has published its analysis of responses to a snaring consultation issued at the end of last year.
24/8/07
Investigations have thrown up the possibility of persons from Karnataka
being involved in the poaching of lions in the Gir sanctuary in Gujarat.
24/8/07
Bollywood star Salman Khan lost an appeal on Friday against a conviction for
shooting an endangered species of gazelle, and must now go to jail.
24/8/07
US troops deployed in war-torn Afghanistan have recently undergone training
to stem the poaching of the country's wildlife, particularly snow leopards,
the military said Wednesday.
24/8/07
The theft of 3,000 eggs on the Copeland Islands has led to the collapse of a
major seabird colony in one of Northern Ireland's most important
environmental sites
24/8/07
In August, poachers killed two one-horned rhinos in India’s Kaziranga
National Park.
23/8/07
A golden eagle chick left motherless after a poisoning incident near Peebles
is expected to survive.
23/8/07
Video: Abused Pet Lion Goes to "Carnivore Shelter.
22/8/07
A rare red kite has been found poisoned in Perthshire after taking bait
laced with an illegal poison. This is the third illegal killing of
these birds of prey in two months. This follows the discovery of a golden
eagle found on the outskirts of a grouse shooting estate.
22/8/07
Taking Action to End Dogfighting: How to Spot the Signs and What You
Can Do. Please note dog fighting takes place all over the world and needs to
be reported.
22/8/07
Today, Michael Vick’s attorney
announced that Vick has apologized and is taking full responsibility for his
actions in relation to federal dogfighting charges. When Vick pleads guilty
in court, a case that has jolted the conscience of a nation will have
reached something of a conclusion.
21/8/07
The Zimbabwean government will withdraw operating permits of conservancy and
game ranch owners who fail to protect wildlife from poaching or fail to
develop land allocated to them, the official media The Herald reported on
Monday
20/8/07
Wildlife crime investigators discovered a van-full of critically endangered
tortoises in southern Scotland after acting on a tip-off.
20/8/07
New Delhi In a bid to check poaching and protecting forest wealth, the
Ministry of Environment will soon provide a toll-free number on which
wildlife lovers can call and report such illegal activities.
19/8/07 A huntsman was cleared yesterday of
allowing his hounds to kill a terrier after a judge declared.
Dogs will be dogs, says hunt case judge
19/8/07
An endangered California condor that was being treated at the Los Angeles
Zoo for lead poisoning has died.
19/8/07
Population declines for some of the most recognized and beloved birds in New
York echo the disturbing findings of a new analysis by the National Audubon
Society.
19/8/07
Butterfly smuggling loses its king. The suspect
lived in a white stucco building on the western edge of town. Small and
dark, his apartment contained no pictures, no food, few personal effects
18/8/07
India’s illegal wildlife trade is growing with crime syndicates making
millions of dollars from the killing, smuggling and selling of rare animals
like tigers, the head of a wildlife watchdog said yesterday.
17/8/07
The present tiger count is just over 1300. The number has been depleting
steadily since the past century. Even after Independence little has been
done to protect the national animal.
17/8/07
Wildlife groups have created individual photo identification cards for wild
elephants in southern India to help track the effects of poaching,
conservationists said Thursday.
16/8/07
Some 2,000 animals are undertaking a great migration by truck to repopulate
a national park devastated by crime and poaching.
15/8/07
Wildlife staff to be appointed across the country. In keeping with Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh's instructions to recruit frontline staff in
sanctuaries and tiger reserves on a priority basis, the Wildlife Crime
Control Bureau (WCCB) Monday decided to set up full-time posts across the
country and spell out their jurisdiction.
15/8/07
Two indicted in poaching of bear & deer. Officials in Colorado responded
last week to several high-profile poaching cases involving the illegal
killing of bear, deer and elk.
15/8/07
A South African, Jan Swart, has been sentenced by a US federal court to 18
months in prison for his role in smuggling leopard hides and skulls in to
the country.
15/8/07
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Scotland has posted a £1,000
reward in an effort to find those responsible for the poisoning of a rare
golden eagle. The female bird was found dead in the Borders area on Sunday,
the first day of the annual grouse-shooting season.
15/8/07
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indicted on poaching-related charges.
A Utah outfitter and a Colorado taxidermist have been named in a federal
indictment accusing them of poaching-related charges.
14/8/07
Pet terrier torn apart by hounds. A senior magistrate fought with a pack of
staghounds as they ripped apart her pet terrier, a court has heard.
14/8/07
The
grouse season is now underway and the League has released a short film to
highlight the urgent need for a ban on snaring in Scotland.Caught in a Trap:
Why the Scottish Executive Must Ban Snaring' reveals the truth about the
intensive predator control regimes on scottish shooting estates.
14/8/07
A group of youths who used a hedgehog as a ball during a hurley game in a
Ballymena car park have been condemned by an animal charity.
13/8/07
One
half of a rare breeding pair of golden eagles has been killed by poison in the
Scottish Borders. The bird was found on Sunday and tests have confirmed that
the banned substance carbofuran was involved.
12/8/07
NASC investigators checking the Angmering Park Estate, Arundel came across a
rabbit caught in Fenn Trap. Despite being trapped by its head the unfortunate
creature was still alive but obviously in a lot of pain demonstrating once
again that legal spring traps are inhumane.
12/8/07
South African poacher sent leopard hides to Denver. A longtime local
taxidermist, who received the smuggled goods, has pleaded guilty and also
could receive prison time
12/8/07
Kenya plans to raise funds internationally for its wildlife conservation
efforts as a means of forestalling a potential decline in the number of wild
animals in its national parks and game reserves, a senior official said.
11/8/07
Wildlife officials seize 46 endangered parakeets. Mohammad Ukil, was produced
before a court here and charged with the illegal trade of endangered birds.
10/8/07
A new treaty between Russia and the United States sets up an agreement for
subsistence hunting of polar bears that roam between the two countries. Now
wildlife managers have to figure out how to do so in some of the world's
wildest territory.
10/8/07
Internet Helping to Catch Poachers. It's true, said U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service Special Agent Ed Newcomer, that the internet has made wildlife crime
easier, and easier to hide. But it's also made it easier for wildlife law
enforcement agents to pose as potential customers - and to catch people.
10/8/07
A family of three endangered mountain gorillas have been shot dead in a
national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo
10/8/07
South African leopard smuggler sentenced in Denver.A 58-year-old big-game
outfitter from South Africa has been sentenced by a Denver federal judge to 18
months in prison for smuggling leopard hides and skulls from Zimbabwe to the
United States, federal officials said.
10/8/07
The Parks and Wildlife Management Authority will soon establish a rhino
protective zone in the Gonarezhou National Park in its efforts to curb
poaching of the animals.
10/8/07
A pig carcass shot outside Pinnacles National Monument has left nearly half of
the area's California condors with elevated lead levels and three with lead
poisoning.
9/8/07
The League Against Cruel Sports today warns that hunts and hunters
deliberately breaking the law face prosecution, not just for breaking the
Hunting Act, but for conspiracy. Anyone found guilty on conspiracy
charges faces a jail sentence.
9/8/07
South China’s taste for wildlife Consuming
endangered wildlife is illegal in China, but it continues on a large scale in
the country’s south.
9/8/07
There has been no headway in a case of poaching registered in Kutch against
actor Salman Khan, already convicted in two similar cases in Rajasthan, due to
the mysterious disappearance of some important papers
8/8/07
DNA analysis promises a new chapter in wildlife
management and conservation. ACTING on a tip-off, wildlife officers swooped upon
three houses in Gemas, Negri Sembilan, in March
8/8/07
Poachers
prey on rhinos in flooded Kaziranga. Two endangered one-horned rhinos were
killed by poacher gangs after the beasts fled a flooded wildlife sanctuary in
Assam, taking the toll of the pachyderms slaughtered this year to 12.
8/8/07
A court on Tuesday said it would rule on actor Salman Khan's appeal against a
five-year prison term given to him in a poaching case on August 24.
7/8/07
India says "gravely endangered" wildlife need help. Snow leopards,
Asiatic lions, Gangetic dolphins and wild buffaloes are among Indian wildlife
species that are "gravely endangered", the government has warned.
7/8/07
Uganda: Poisoning of Park Animals a Global Danger. When the animals in Queen
Elizabeth National Park are poisoned, it is not a local problem. It could be an
international catastrophe.
7/8/07
Rwanda Political Support From DRC Needed to Protect Gorillas. Following the
death of four mountain Gorillas on D R Congo side of the Virunga Park,
conservationists say the authorities there have to come to their support to
protect the Gorillas from increasing cases of poaching, RNA reports.
6/8/07
The growing demand for tigers in China has fuelled a steep decline of the
species in India through poaching.
6/8/07
Star
tortoises seized from passenger
as many
as 333 live star tortoises, meant for smuggling to Malayisa, were seized from a
passenger at Anna International Airport.
The
endangered species were found kept in 11 plastic containers concealed inside a
zipper bag last night, a release from the Office of the Commissioner of Customs
here today.
6/8/07
The tragic event in Wicklow involving the deaths of three people in a domestic
situation calls into question the need for having firearms in the family home.
5/8/07
Recently the government official has confirmed that there are only 1300 to 1500
tigers left in India in all the 28 major tiger reserves, which is not half of
the previous census. So here comes the question that what the government is
doing since the establishment of the Project Tiger scheme in 1973
5/8/07
A conservation group filed suit Thursday in federal court demanding that the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designate critical habitat and create a recovery
plan for endangered American jaguars.
5/8/07
India may have just 1,500 tigers, say wildlife experts. The final results of a
state-by-state census are expected in December but at a conservation meeting
during the week, a noted Indian
tiger expert put the number of the cats left in the country at 1,500 or
fewer.
5/8/07
US Senate and House Move Quickly to Reauthorize International Conservation
Programs. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has approved the
re-authorization for an additional five years of conservation programs for
African elephants, Asian elephants, rhinos and tigers.
5/8/07
Artist’s aim to save threatened wildlife. ONE of the world’s leading
wildlife artists became a conservationist overnight after seeing more than 200
dead zebra, thousands of miles away from his Surrey home.
5/8/07
The Assam government on Saturday admitted that shortage in number of forest
guards in the world famous Kaziranga national park was the reason for killing of
at least 10 endangered one-horned rhinos by poachers this year.
4/8/07
A young minke whale stranded in Fraserburgh Harbour for three days has made it
back out to sea. The whale is thought to have become separated from its mother
after following a fishing boat.
4/8/07
Calling pro-tiger farming experts hired assassins , wildlife conservationists
have demanded international pressure on China, which they say is putting lives
of tigers around the globe under threat by not banning tiger farming.
4/8/07
Conservationist in Nepal say they are concerned that former Maoist rebels have
not yet returned wildlife products they had seized during the nation's 10-year
conflict.
4/8/07
A
pair of rare Albino sparrows have turned up in County Antrim. The pure white
birds, which lack the the common sparrow's usual brown, grey and black
pigmentation, were spotted in a garden near Islandmagee.
4/8/07
A whale that was spotted in the river Orwell in Ipswich had to be put to sleep
after it was found to be too weak to return to the sea
3/8/07
Positive coverage for fox in newspaper. An Irish newspaper aimed at promoting
nature has given foxes the positive coverage they deserve! Refreshingly free
from the usual misinformation, the article published in Sherkin Comment dispels
myths and portrays the fox as one of our most fascinating wild mammals
3/8/07
Wildlife conservationists
oppose tiger farms. Opposing legalising of trade in tiger parts as a measure to
protect the endangered animal, wildlife conservationists today claimed that it
was the growing demand for tigers in China which had fuelled the decline of the
species in India through poaching.
3/8/07
Tigers in crisis, less than half estimated
. Country's tigers are facing their severest crisis with only between 1,300 and
1,500 left in the wild, less than half the population of endangered big cats
previously estimated, conservationists said on Friday
2/8/07
Britain saves kites, but squirrels on red alert. Its broad wings outstretched,
the red kite glides down to bring food to its nesting chicks, hidden behind a
thick green curtain of foliage
1/8/07
Zambia recovers over 500 illegal guns from poachers. Zambian poachers have
handed over 500 rifles to government through an amnesty programme in which
poachers are provided with agriculture support in exchange for guns, an official
said Wednesday.
1/8/07
Conservationists in Uganda have asked the government to intervene to prevent
further killing of animals by herdsmen living in the country's second-largest
game park.
1/8/07
YAKUSHIMA ISLAND, Kagoshima Prefecture--The 78-year-old man would admit to
nothing. He had no knowledge of the poaching of shima-mejiro--the Japanese
white-eye song bird endemic to this island, he told his accusers
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