Welcome to the
September edition of the Latest News and Archives 2007
30/9/07
Protection law that fails birds of prey. MINISTERS came under pressure
last night to do more to protect birds of prey after it emerged that only
three convictions have been secured under laws introduced in 2004 to stop
their killing.
30/9/07
New Plant And Animal Species Discovered In Vietnam. Eleven new species of
plants and animals were discovered in a remote region of Vietnam by the
World Wildlife Fund.
30/9/07
Chinese police have detained 24 foreigners,
mostly Indians and Pakistanis, on the charge of poaching state-protected
falcons in a north-western region of the country.
30/9/07
Tigers are being poached in snares, shot or electrocuted. There will be a
discovery of a huge stock of wildlife remains at a warehouse basement in
Delhi
29/9/07
A specially compiled series of Youtube video clips showing the beauty of
wildlife in Ireland. Featured in this captivating collection are foxes,
hares, stoats, otters and birds and lots more from the ICABS
here.
28/9/07
A GAMEKEEPER involved in a road accident panicked and tried to dispose of
a banned and highly poisonous pesticide in his Land Rover by throwing it
away, a court heard yesterday.
28/9/07
Police, Forest department join hands to curb poaching. To Combat wildlife
crimes in the state, the police and the Forest department have agreed to
work in close tandem for devising a strategy to protect the fauna.
28/9/07
Officials Nab India's Most Notorious Tiger Poacher. Known tiger poacher
Laxman Singh Pardhi has confessed to forestry officials that he killed
three tigers and four leopards, the "Times of India" newspaper
reported today.
28/9/07
Malaysia returns 4 smuggled orangutans to Indonesia. Four orangutans
believed to have been abducted from Borneo's jungles were being returned
to Indonesia on Friday after spending years in a Malaysian zoo and a theme
park, officials said.
27/9/06
Breaking news: Wildlife officers accused of bear baiting. A
group of Blount County hunters say two Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
(TWRA) officers were hunting bear over a baited area this morning.
26/9/07
The golden eagle, an emblem of Scotland, the blue sky above the Borders is
to become a no-fly zone. The wildlife crime officer for Lothian and
Borders Police has said a spate of poisoning incidents has made the region
too dangerous for the reintroduction of the majestic
25/9/07
The Humane Society of the United States has added $1,000 to the bounty for
information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible
for fatally shooting the mother bear and orphaning two cubs.
25/9/07
THE government vowed yesterday to intensify the war against trafficking
and illegal trade in wildlife and wildlife products amid reports of a
surge in demand for government trophies.
24/9/07
One more one-horned rhinoceros was killed at the Agaratoli range of the
Kaziranga National Park in Assam, officials said Tuesday. 'The body was
found Monday near the Dhoba anti-poaching camp in the eastern part of the
park.
23/9/07
The skin of a leopard, killed inside the Satkoshia wildlife sanctuary last
week by the poachers, was seized by the wildlife officials during a raid
inside the reserve forest.
23/9/07
A California man accused of stealing three endangered iguanas from a
nature preserve in Fiji and smuggling them into the United States in his
prosthetic leg has been indicted.
23/9/07
Wolf populations continue to surge in the Northern Rockies, more than a
decade after the animals were reintroduced to the region. A tentative
count of 1,545 wolves was released Friday, marking a 19 percent increase
over last year
22/9/07
Gujarat the only home of the Asiatic lion had until now not agreed to give
any of them for a proposed sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh even though the
lions in Gir were under threat from poachers epidemics and natural
disasters.
22/9/07
Hundreds of people dressed in gorilla suits have run through London to
help save the animals from extinction
21/9/09
Tribal and state officials are searching for information about the illegal
killing of a grizzly bear on the Flathead Indian Reservation.
20/9/07
Wild bird crimes most prevalent in county says RSPB. The Royal Society for
the Protection of Birds has said that the number of reported crimes in
Wales has risen by more than 60 per cent, from 91 incidents in 2005 to 143
in 2006.
19/9/07
Bear Cub rescued, Wildlife traffickers arrested in Karnataka. In yet
another landmark victory to curb Wildlife crime in the state, Wildlife
Authorities from the Karnataka Forest Department with a tip off and
assistance from Wildlife S.O.S seized a live bear cub and arrested two
persons. The Bear cub has been transported to a Bear Rescue Center in
Bangalore .
18/9/07
Leading animal welfare groups in Scotland are increasing the pressure on
the Scottish Government to make a decision on the future of snaring
17/9/07
Laxman Pardhi, the most wanted poacher and skin smuggler, was arrested
from Chanera village in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh
16/9/07
The former head of the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) has claimed to
have spotted fresh tiger paw prints during recent excursions to
unprotected forests in the Sahyadri mountain range along the western coast
of Maharashtra
16/9/07
A push to reduce the poisoning of California condors by banning the lead
bullets that lodge in their prey faced a cloudy future Friday, a day after
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger fired a state Fish and Game commissioner
targeted by Republican lawmakers.
15/9/07
Lairds face new censure over poisoned birds. Schottish landowners will be
banned from their trade association if they are convicted of illegally
poisoning wild birds as part of a nationwide move to crackdown on the
crime.
15/9/07
The National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority of Zimbabwe said
yesterday it had started dehorning rhinos in Hwange National Park in an
effort to deter poaching of one of the world’s endangered species.
15/9/07
The Nevada Department of Wildlife is asking for the public's help to find
the perpetrator of a recent poaching of a golden eagle in Mason Valley.
14/9/07
Tigers return to rainforest in India. Experts had thought they had all
been hunted, now seek protected area
13/9/07
Leopard rescued from poachers in Himachal Pradesh. An adult leopard caught
in a poacher's trap in a Himachal Pradesh forest was rescued by a team of
forest and veterinarian staff, officials said here Thursday.
13/9/07
The National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority of Zimbabwe said
yesterday it had started dehorning rhinos in Hwange National Park in an
effort to deter poaching of one of the world’s endangered species.
12/9/07
More wild birds in Oxfordshire are being shot and poisoned than ever
before according to a Government agency, but conservationists say the
known killings are just the "tip of the iceberg".
11/9/07
According to a new report entitled ‘Persecution’, published this week
by the RSPB Scotland, bird of prey persecution is at its highest level in
Scotland for 20 years.
10/9/07
Wildlife group demands ban on peacock feather trade. With increasing
incidence of poaching of the national bird being reported from various
parts of Rajasthan, an animal protection group has demanded ban on trade
of peacock feathers.
9/9/07
Welcome to the latest edition of the ACE e-newsletter.
9/9/07
June proved to be an excellent month, with plenty of sunshine for daytime
visits by the foxes, and some spectacular visits by the adult male and one
of the cubs (there are three cubs in all). The wound on the adult's head
also cleared up well during the month, though it's still visible in the
early photos.
9/9/07
A Nepalese citizen was recently arrested with a leopard skin at the
Indo-Nepal border in Uttar Pradesh in a search carried out by the state's
forest department with assistance from an NGO.
9/9/07
A documentary on poaching of tigers will kickstart the five-day 'CMS
Vatavaran Film Festival' here from September 12, showcasing environment
and wildlife movies of the year.
9/9/07
Logan County's long-anticipated poisoning program against prairie dogs got
under way Friday when a contract exterminator from Tribune started tossing
Phostoxin pellets down burrows and covering them with sandbags
8/9/07
IRELAND'S Ward Union stag hunt has been given a reprieve by Irish
environment minister John Gormley. The Countryside Alliance Ireland had
feared Mr Gormley would refuse the pack a licence to hunt carted stag for
the next season.
8/9/07
DR Congo rangers search for mountain gorillas amid fresh clashes. Park
rangers on Friday searched for endangered mountain gorillas in eastern
Democratic Republic of Congo amid reports of fresh clashes between the
army and renegade troops, an official said.
8/9/07
WWF seeks donors to help protect endangered wilflife. The project
catalogue includes saving an entire ancient ecosystem in the Congo from
destruction, finding a new habitat for polar bears in the Arctic and
relocating rhino or genetically pure bison to start a new herd- to help
endangered animals
7/9/09
At the end of August, Iceland's fisheries minister told reporters that the
country will not continue the commercial hunt because of low demand for
whale meat and a lack of access to the Japanese market.
6/9/07
Every day millions of animals are born into lives of unspeakable
suffering. Every day millions more suffer terrible deaths. All animals
should be able to live their lives free from misery. But they struggle in
a world that is often indifferent: Petition for a Universal Declaration on
Animal Welfare!
6/9/07
Poaching of turtles in Tawi-tawi wildlife
sanctuary assailed. ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines Officials of Tawi
tawi province fear that Turtle Island a protected area and home to giant
leatherback turtles, is on the verge of devastation due to foreign and
local exploitation.
6/9/07
The Anti Smuggling Unit foiled a bid to smuggle 155 Indonesian pangolins
into Thailand with the arrest of a Malaysian man on Tuesday
5/9/07
The Salman Khan case may have hogged headlines but behind the scenes, the
government is moving fast to strengthen provisions of the Wildlife
Protection Act, 1972, as well as improve enforcement against poaching and
other wildlife crimes.
5/9/07
Vietnamese police have arrested four people caught preparing two dead
tigers and other illegal wildlife for traditional medicine in a Hanoi city
apartment, state media said yesterday.
4/9/07
A much-loved pet cat has died after becoming entangled in a snare in a
residential area of York. All
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4/9/07
Baiters blamed for badger deaths. Badger baiters are to blame for the
deaths of three animals in Fife, police have said. A badger, a fox and a
hare were all found dead at Castle Walk in Crail over a three-week period.
