Corbett tiger deaths could be due to poisoning
March 28, 2006
By Gyan Varma, Indo-Asian News Service
New Delhi, March 28 (IANS) Four female Royal Bengal tigresses have died, including two this month, at the Jim Corbett National Park in Uttaranchal, and Project Tiger officials suspect two of them could have been poisoned.
The deaths over the past two months prompted officials to send a special team to the park. Two of the victims were pubs.
'I suspect the two female tiger cubs could have been poisoned by villagers in the area,' Rajesh Gopal, director of Project Tiger, told IANS.
The two cubs were found dead - one on Feb 26 and the other March 7 - at Dhela in the 1,200-sq km national park in the Himalayan foothills.
Gopal, who was part of the Project Tiger and Wildlife Institute of India team that went to study the deaths, said the place where the cubs were found dead lay very close to human habitation.
The probe team felt there was a possibility they had been poisoned.
'The post-mortem report does not clearly state the cause of the death. But the deaths were certainly not due to poaching,' said Gopal. 'There is a 50 percent chance that the cubs died due to poisoning.'
He did not rule out the possibility of the cubs being killed by other big cats as there were a sizeable number of tigers in the area.
The tiger reserve, the oldest in the country, is home to over 140 tigers (2004 census) and 90 leopards besides many other animals and bird species.
Referring to the deaths of the other adult tigresses, on Jan 8 and March 17, he said rumours that a male killed them during mating were not true.
Gopal said that such explanations were difficult to believe.
'Though cases of deaths due to fighting between male and female tigers is not uncommon, in these deaths we did not find any evidence to substantiate the theory that these tigresses had died due to violent mating,' he said.
Gopal added the rumours were due to 'misreporting' by some local dailies.
The Jan 8 tigress' death occurred at Bijrani. A day earlier park officials had observed that the animal was not well.
'The forest officials gave her meat but she refused to eat it. They found her dead the next day,' he said.
The March 17 death was observed on the outskirts of the reserve at Ram Nagar.
According to Gopal, the medical report on the tigresses' death was not available yet.
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Friday, March 31, 2006
Corbett tiger deaths could be due to poisoning
March 28, 2006
By Gyan Varma, Indo-Asian News Service
New Delhi, March 28 (IANS) Four female Royal Bengal tigresses have died, including two this month, at the Jim Corbett National Park in Uttaranchal, and Project Tiger officials suspect two of them could have been poisoned.
The deaths over the past two months prompted officials to send a special team to the park. Two of the victims were pubs.
'I suspect the two female tiger cubs could have been poisoned by villagers in the area,' Rajesh Gopal, director of Project Tiger, told IANS.
The two cubs were found dead - one on Feb 26 and the other March 7 - at Dhela in the 1,200-sq km national park in the Himalayan foothills.
Gopal, who was part of the Project Tiger and Wildlife Institute of India team that went to study the deaths, said the place where the cubs were found dead lay very close to human habitation.
The probe team felt there was a possibility they had been poisoned.
'The post-mortem report does not clearly state the cause of the death. But the deaths were certainly not due to poaching,' said Gopal. 'There is a 50 percent chance that the cubs died due to poisoning.'
He did not rule out the possibility of the cubs being killed by other big cats as there were a sizeable number of tigers in the area.
The tiger reserve, the oldest in the country, is home to over 140 tigers (2004 census) and 90 leopards besides many other animals and bird species.
Referring to the deaths of the other adult tigresses, on Jan 8 and March 17, he said rumours that a male killed them during mating were not true.
Gopal said that such explanations were difficult to believe.
'Though cases of deaths due to fighting between male and female tigers is not uncommon, in these deaths we did not find any evidence to substantiate the theory that these tigresses had died due to violent mating,' he said.
Gopal added the rumours were due to 'misreporting' by some local dailies.
The Jan 8 tigress' death occurred at Bijrani. A day earlier park officials had observed that the animal was not well.
'The forest officials gave her meat but she refused to eat it. They found her dead the next day,' he said.
The March 17 death was observed on the outskirts of the reserve at Ram Nagar.
According to Gopal, the medical report on the tigresses' death was not available yet.
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March 28, 2006
By Gyan Varma, Indo-Asian News Service
New Delhi, March 28 (IANS) Four female Royal Bengal tigresses have died, including two this month, at the Jim Corbett National Park in Uttaranchal, and Project Tiger officials suspect two of them could have been poisoned.
The deaths over the past two months prompted officials to send a special team to the park. Two of the victims were pubs.
'I suspect the two female tiger cubs could have been poisoned by villagers in the area,' Rajesh Gopal, director of Project Tiger, told IANS.
The two cubs were found dead - one on Feb 26 and the other March 7 - at Dhela in the 1,200-sq km national park in the Himalayan foothills.
Gopal, who was part of the Project Tiger and Wildlife Institute of India team that went to study the deaths, said the place where the cubs were found dead lay very close to human habitation.
The probe team felt there was a possibility they had been poisoned.
'The post-mortem report does not clearly state the cause of the death. But the deaths were certainly not due to poaching,' said Gopal. 'There is a 50 percent chance that the cubs died due to poisoning.'
He did not rule out the possibility of the cubs being killed by other big cats as there were a sizeable number of tigers in the area.
The tiger reserve, the oldest in the country, is home to over 140 tigers (2004 census) and 90 leopards besides many other animals and bird species.
Referring to the deaths of the other adult tigresses, on Jan 8 and March 17, he said rumours that a male killed them during mating were not true.
Gopal said that such explanations were difficult to believe.
'Though cases of deaths due to fighting between male and female tigers is not uncommon, in these deaths we did not find any evidence to substantiate the theory that these tigresses had died due to violent mating,' he said.
Gopal added the rumours were due to 'misreporting' by some local dailies.
The Jan 8 tigress' death occurred at Bijrani. A day earlier park officials had observed that the animal was not well.
'The forest officials gave her meat but she refused to eat it. They found her dead the next day,' he said.
The March 17 death was observed on the outskirts of the reserve at Ram Nagar.
According to Gopal, the medical report on the tigresses' death was not available yet.
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Corbett_tiger_deaths_could_be_due_to_poisoning
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Leopard in a spot
By: Nimesh Dave
March 31, 2006
It took committed officials from the Sanjay Gandhi National Park around 90 minutes to rescue a female leopard trapped in a well in Kaman village on the Ahmedabad-Bhiwandi highway. Nimesh Dave reports
At 4 am on Thursday, when some girls from Kaman village, around 40 km from Mumbai on the Ahmedabad-Bhiwandi highway, reached the village well to get water for their daily chores, they found a female leopard trying to make its way out of the 18-foot-deep well.
They immediately ran home to tell their parents who in turn informed the village sarpanch. The sarpanch waited for daylight and then called the Vasai police station to inform them about the animal.
The cops called the Vasai fire station for help. At 1.30 pm, firemen arrived. But when their efforts to rescue the leopard failed, forest officials of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park were called in. The officials arrived by 1.50 pm and pulled the leopard back to safety.
2.30 pm
Help arrives: Forest officials throw a cot in the well, in the hope that the leopard would jump onto it and could then be pulled to safety. The animal still refused to cooperate, hence the officials then tied a noose around its belly and tranquilised it
2.45 pm
Dum laga ke haiya: After 15 minutes, when the animal fell unconscious, it was pulled out
3 pm
In transit: The three-and-a-half year old rescued animal was then taken to the forest department van
3.10 pm
Back home: At 3.10 pm, the leopard was released into the national park, safe and sound
By: Nimesh Dave
March 31, 2006
It took committed officials from the Sanjay Gandhi National Park around 90 minutes to rescue a female leopard trapped in a well in Kaman village on the Ahmedabad-Bhiwandi highway. Nimesh Dave reports
At 4 am on Thursday, when some girls from Kaman village, around 40 km from Mumbai on the Ahmedabad-Bhiwandi highway, reached the village well to get water for their daily chores, they found a female leopard trying to make its way out of the 18-foot-deep well.
They immediately ran home to tell their parents who in turn informed the village sarpanch. The sarpanch waited for daylight and then called the Vasai police station to inform them about the animal.
The cops called the Vasai fire station for help. At 1.30 pm, firemen arrived. But when their efforts to rescue the leopard failed, forest officials of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park were called in. The officials arrived by 1.50 pm and pulled the leopard back to safety.
2.30 pm
Help arrives: Forest officials throw a cot in the well, in the hope that the leopard would jump onto it and could then be pulled to safety. The animal still refused to cooperate, hence the officials then tied a noose around its belly and tranquilised it
2.45 pm
Dum laga ke haiya: After 15 minutes, when the animal fell unconscious, it was pulled out
3 pm
In transit: The three-and-a-half year old rescued animal was then taken to the forest department van
3.10 pm
Back home: At 3.10 pm, the leopard was released into the national park, safe and sound
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Snow Leopard DNA studies
DNA analysis at the
UI wildlife professor Lisette Waits’ use of DNA analysis on hair and scat samples from the rare cats apparently will be the first time the technique has been applied to snow leopards, which typically show little genetic variation among their population groups.
Waits worked with colleagues at
Waits said DNA analysis will help scientists to better estimate snow leopard numbers.
“I am really excited to provide new tools that will aid in the conservation and management of this threatened species,” said Waits.
Waits worked in cooperation with Warren Johnson of the NIH Laboratory of Genomic Diversity in
Using genetic samples provided by
Conservation scientists now will be able to test field collected specimens, such as feces and shed hairs, to identify individuals or determine sex.
The Snow Leopard Trust has sent 85 fecal samples to the UI for genetic assessment. These samples were collected in
Waits expects results by summer that will be shared with snow leopard conservationists around the world.
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Thursday, March 23, 2006
Five tiger deaths in Uttaranchal in two months
[ Thursday, March 23, 2006 10:20:44 amIANS ]
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As many as four tigers were found dead over the past two months at
Four of the five dead tigers were females.
After almost two months since the first death was reported, wildlife officials sprung into action Tuesday. A team of experts rushed from the Indian wildlife institute at Dehradun to the
The carcass of the last tiger, which reportedly died Friday, was discovered Monday in the Ramnagar forest range in the outer periphery of Corbett. Officials attributed the deaths to infighting or physically incompatible mating.
“Three of the four female victims were apparently killed fighting its rivals while one died as a result of mating with a much heavier and bigger male," Uttaranchal chief wildlife conservator S.K. Chandola told.
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Monday, March 20, 2006
Saki Naka Police Nabs Carrier with LEOPARD Skin Worth Rs 25,000
Saki Naka Police Nabs Carrier with LEOPARD Skin Worth Rs 25,000
By Staff Reporter
Last week after the
PSI Kadam who was manning the check post near Saki Naka said, “The person traveling in the auto appeared suspicious, we questioned him but he was giving vague answers. We then searched his belongings to find the leopard skin hidden in his personal belongings.”
The carrier Dhananjay Ramchandra Lambar (19) was carrying this leopard skin worth Rs 25,000 to an unknown contact in Bail Bazar in Kurla. He said I was told to meet somebody at a point and handover him the parcel.
Sr. PI Khandagle of Saki Naka police told Planet Powai that the carrier Dhananjay was in possession of a banned wild life skin and has been arrested under Wildlife Protection Act of 1972, section 50 (2), 51 and send to police remand for fifteen days. Interrogation of the accused did not reveal any source or destination contact of the larger nexus in this illegal trade of banned animal skin.
Police is also getting in touch with forest officials to establish any clue in their knowledge about any poaching incident in the National Forest. Investigations are going on in the case and police is yet to crack the gang operating in this area
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Saturday, March 18, 2006
3 held in city with tiger skin
3 held in city with tiger skin
Express News Service
The arrested trio has been identified as Ashish Kumar Tiwari, Rajesh Kumar Tiwari (both from
Police said the gang’s kingpin, Nilesh Singh, is still absconding, adding that Radhey Shyam is a hardcore criminal and had eight cases of murder and loot registered against him.
Police said besides killing deer and cubs in the forests of Siddhatnagar and selling skins in the international market, the gang was also involved in smuggling of Asthadhatu idols.
“Two member of the gang arrested on February 6 had told us that their other accomplices would be here this month. We laid a trap and arrested them,” SO (Gomti Nagar) Manoj Kumar Pant said.
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Snow leopard skins confiscated in Mongolia
Snow leopard skins confiscated in
The endangered snow leopard is threatened by habitat loss and poaching.
16 Mar 2006
“There is an illegal trade network of leopard skins here in
The threats facing snow leopards include habitat fragmentation and uncontrolled hunting, especially as demand for their pelts and other body parts is high. Although it is difficult to assess the present-day scale of trade, snow leopard hunting has been reported from most central Asian range States and the Russian Federation since political and economic instability was ushered in by the dissolution of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1990s.
In 2004, two people were found in
“The transboudary trade of snow leopard skins is relatively easy as there are poor customs and border checks,” Onon added.
Although protected under national and international law, the snow leopard (Uncia uncia) remains a highly endangered species, with only about 4,500–7,350 found throughout a range of 12 countries – Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The population in
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E-mail: tuyachimeg@wwf.mn
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Thursday, March 16, 2006
Seven held for possessing and selling tiger skins, idols
Seven held for possessing and selling tiger skins, idols
The seven were arrested late last night from a hotel on Ashok Rajpath here and four tiger skins and five asthadhatu (an alloy of eight metals) idols seized from them, Superintendent of police (city) Vikas Vaibhav told reporters.
On being tipped off about the presence of the smugglers at the hotel, a police team, posing as buyers, tried to strike a deal with them.
During the the course of negotiations, the smugglers displayed the goods including the tiger skins, the idols of various Hindu gods and a stone idol of Buddha. The police then arrested all seven of them and seized the items.
"Some of those arrested are from
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Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Villagers hunt rare species of leopard
Villagers hunt rare species of leopard
Staff Correspondent
Villagers hunted a leopard of rare species (pantherar pardus) at Chakaria upazila in Cox's Bazar on March 7 night.
A forest official said a local union parishad chairman incited the villagers to kill the leopard, which is now on the verge of extinction.
"No such act of human insensibility on wildlife without any reason did take place in the last few decades since independence," said divisional forest officer Dr Tapan Kumar Dey, also project director of
He said they might seek government permission to sue the chairman for his act.
The leopard, seven-foot long, 2.5 feet height and weighing 60 kgs, fell victim to the attack of villagers when it emerged a shrimp enclosure at Pashchim (west) Baro Bheola village under Chakaria upazila from the neighbouring forest on March 7 night.
As news of the leopard's appearance spread hundreds of villagers had encircled the shrimp enclosure and beat it dead before the forest officials came the spot, sources said.
Local people said they were forced to kill the leopard as it attacked two workers of the shrimp enclosure.
Later, Wildlife Management and Nature Conservation (WMNC) Department officials with the help of police recovered the slain leopard and conserved it in the Natural History Museum of the Safari Park at Dulahazara, sources said.
Dr Tapan said three, out of ten species of tigers, leopards and cats are extinct in the country in the last three decades. The rest seven species are also critically endangered in the country.
"The leopard killed by the marauding villagers belonged to one of the extinct species. This species are now found only in a very few hilly and impenetrable forests of Sylhet, Garopahar in Mymensingh,
Wildlife expert Prof Quazi Zakir Hossain and
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Monday, March 13, 2006
Record number of lynx believed to be in Finland's forests
Record number of lynx believed to be in
Scientists adopt Swedish model: number of individual lynx counted from footprints in snow
This winter there is a record number - between 1,150 to 2,000 - of lynx in the Finnish forests.
According to the headcount taken in the
The number of lynx inhabiting six game preservation society areas was estimated by using a counting method adopted from
The pilot project was carried out by the Southern and Northern Savo Game Preservation Societies, in cooperation with the Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute (RKTL).
Savo was chosen for the area’s relatively high lynx population, the densest in the country. A new counting method was experimented with, as - along with the sense that there were a growing number of lynx in the area - the old method has been found to be too inaccurate.
In
Presently, the size of the Swedish lynx population is estimated at 1,800, instead of 20 to 30 percent less, as was previously thought.
In
Attempts were made to eliminate possible overlapping in sightings. In the communities of Juva and Rantasalmi, for one, the headcounts for lynx were estimated at 44 and 30 animals respectively. This is 50 percent more than what has been thought previously.
The final calculation results will be determined after cross-referencing the game preservation societies’ numbers with those by the local contact persons who monitor predators.
If the method is found to be more accurate than the ones used before, it will be adopted in other parts of the country as well in the coming years.
“But we still need to introduce other new counting methods as well, such as aerial observation, to further sharpen the number”, researcher Samuli Heikkinen from RKTL points out.
There are plans to map out the entire lynx and wolf populations of
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India takes on poachers in key tiger reserve
13 Mar 2006 14:50:18 GMT
Source: Reuters
Background CRISIS PROFILE: What is the conflict in
By Bappa Majumdar
CANNING, India, March 13 (Reuters) - Authorities in eastern India have arrested 30 poachers in the world's largest tiger reserve this year against 40 caught in 2004 and 2005, officials said on Monday.
They said the sharp jump in arrests in the first nine weeks of 2006 were largely the result of border troops joining wildlife personnel in tackling poachers in the Sunderbans, a vast mangrove forest home to scores of Royal Bengal tigers.
"Joint patrolling and vigilance between us and the Border Security Force has added muscle to the anti-poaching efforts," Pradeep Vyas, director of the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve, said in Canning, the closest large town to the reserve.
BSF troops have joined wildlife guards in five camps in the Sunderbans to boost the anti-poaching drive, including on a mangrove forest island where the
A single tiger can fetch up $50,000 on the black market, where its organs and bones are sold for use in traditional Chinese medicine.
Tigers experts said the situation could be similar in other sanctuaries.
A century ago, there were about 40,000 big cats in
The last census in 2003 estimated there were between 260 and 280 tigers in the Indian part of the Sunderbans.
The marshy region, part of which extends into neighbouring
"They are armed and do not hesitate to exchange fire with our men," Vyas said.
The nature of the land also makes it easy for poachers to operate.
"They hide in creeks and sneak into the core (sanctuary) area under cover of darkness," said S.R. Banerjee, the director of global nature conservation body, WWF, in
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Sunday, March 12, 2006
Leopard kills child in Kashmir, India
Leopard kills child in
March 09, 2006
SRINAGAR, India (UPI) -- A leopard has killed a 7-year-old girl in Kashmir, dragging her into the forest by the neck as she came out of her home, local officials said.
The child, identified as Rubina Bano, had gone outdoors Wednesday night to relieve herself when the beast attacked, the New Kerala News reported. Her family members and other villagers ran after the leopard, but it disappeared into the forest.
The badly mauled body was recovered in the forest Thursday morning.
The incident occurred in Bhagla village in Doda district, the officials said, and had caused panic in the area.
Leopards have killed four people in Indian Kashmir since December, police said.
They are more likely to attack in winter, coming down from the high mountains in search of food.
The animals are protected, but police and wildlife officials will shoot them if they threaten human life.
There are about 14,000 leopards in
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