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  • 29/11/2006

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Croc can't go on | Tears for the crocodile | Pyrrhic victory | Where to live? | Lost manhood | Where to croc?



Once released in the wild, many crocodiles are swept away by floods. Many stray into unprotected areas and get trapped in fishing nets protected area has been pending before the Madhya Pradesh High Court’s Gwalior bench.
Sand mining is not the only threat to the gharial. The creature has a hard time surviving in their strictly riverine habitats when heavy rains floods rivers. Many are flushed down into shallow, inhospitable stretches outside pas. "The linear, riverine habitat of the gharial is particularly disadvantageous for the newly hatched gharials,' says B C Choudhary, a zoologist with the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun.

Take, for example, the situation in the Satkosia Gorge Sanctuary in Orissa. Seven hundred

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