The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change notified the Living Animal Species Rules 2024 stating, Every person who is in possession of any animal species (in schedule IV) shall report the
Banning almost all cross-border trade in ivory, as the United Nations did in 1989, doesn
By YOJNA GUSAI New Delhi, July 18: Arguing that it has a right to kill its captive tigers and criticising those against tiger farming, China tried to stall India's effort in bringing in more efforts and strengthening global tiger conservation programmes, at the just concluded standing committee meeting of UN's Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
BY YOJNA GUSAI New Delhi, July 16: With neighbouring country China's name being approved for legal ivory trading by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), conservationists are worried that it will prompt poachers to launder in their illegal stocks, including that obtained from India. Estimates show that 20,000 elephants are annually killed for illegal ivory trade. India is home to around 35,000 elephants. Figures have shown that in the last two decades 50 per cent of the country's elephant population has been lost to poachers.
The day Sariska's first translocated tigress is slated to walk free, came further evidence of continuing pressure on the tiger from poachers: about 15-20 kg of fresh tiger bones were recovered today from the house of a known poacher in a village near Gurgaon, official sources said.
Is Japan's research whaling, which claims about 1000 whales a year, scientific investigation or disguised commercial whaling? A new review process endorsed by the International Whaling Commission last week at its 60th annual meeting hopes to get closer to the answer.
A heated debate has recently emerged between tiger farmers and conservationists about the potential consequences of lifting the ban on trade in farmed tiger products in China. This debate has caused unfounded speculation about the extent of the potential market for tiger products.
This report provides data on the logistics, scope, and economics of the illegal trade in wildlife in Vietnam. It analyses the main reasons for the rapid growth in this trade and highlights key failures in the country's attempts to control it. This report recommends that the government should strengthen the capacity of the agencies responsible for fighting the trade and raise their budgets.
coastal campaign: The National Fishworker's Forum began a two-month campaign in Gujarat to draw public attention to the centre's move to dilute Coastal Regulation Zone Notification, 1991, and
Brazil's environmental officials have found the skinned and salted corpses of about 740 alligators in the Piagacu-Purus reserve in the Amazon forests. The dried reptiles, weighing about eight tonnes,
Endangered Bears Find Refuge In New Vietnam Centre VIETNAM: April 8, 2008 TAM DAO - A furry black bear cub playfully clasps a rubber pet toy between its paws and eats fruit in its new home -- Vietnam's first refuge for bears rescued from abusive traffickers of bile used in traditional medicines. The bear is one of four 50 kg (110 lb) endangered Asiatic black cubs and two adults that were smuggled either from neighbouring Laos or from southern Vietnam in the past seven months, and confiscated by the authorities.
