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Sundarbans tigers trapped, to be sent back into forests
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Wednesday, September 01, 2010 |
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Two tigers were on Tuesday trapped by Forest department personnel from areas close to the Sundarbans in South 24 Parganas district, official sources said.The tigers would be tranquilised and microchips attached to their bodies before they were released into the forest, reports The Hindu. |
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Himachal Pradesh lion safari loses roar
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 |
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Eight Asiatic lions at the Renuka lion safari in Sirmaur district of Himachal Pradesh are fighting a losing battle against diseases and abnormalities brought about by inbreeding, reports Times of India/IANS |
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Adopt a tiger or a crocodile at Tripura zoo
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Monday, September 15, 2008 |
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Ever thought of adopting a tiger, a rhino or a crocodile? At the Sepahijala wildlife sanctuary and zoo near the Tripura capital, you can do just that, reports Times of India/IANS |
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Lions, monkeys smuggled to zoo in Gaza
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Friday, August 08, 2008 |
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The monkeys and lions were drugged, tossed into cloth sacks and pulled through smuggling tunnels under the border between Egypt and the besieged Gaza Strip before ending up in their new homes in a dusty Gaza zoo, reports Times of India |
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Plan to increase tiger population high on govt's agenda
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 |
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The Central Zoo Authority (CZA) of India has plans to raise at least 100 physically, genetically and behaviourally healthy endangered species of tigers. CZA identified six zoos in New Delhi, Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar, Chhatbir, Chennai and Bhopal as coordinating centres for this purpose. Such managed zoo populations will serve as a 'genetic reservoir' in case of future need to supplement wild tiger populations or reintroduce tigers in areas from where they have vanished, reports Doordarshan News |
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Punjab zoo to breed Shaheen falcons
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Sunday, July 27, 2008 |
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Chattbir Zoo in Punjab will soon breed the endangered Shaheen falcons, popularly known as 'baaz' and revered by the Sikh community as a prized possession of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth guru of Sikhs. This is for the first time in the country that the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) has approved such a project aiming to enhance the population of the bird, which is on the decline largely due to consumption of DDT-infested preys. Talks are being held with the directors of Sweden and Dubai zoos for technical guidance on how to raise and breed falcons, reports PTI in the DNA India |
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Tusk sawed to save jumbo in Kerala
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Sunday, July 20, 2008 |
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A 60-year-old tusker belonging to a temple, faced a unique predicament. The elephant couldn't lift his trunk and reach his mouth as his tusks, that were growing inwards, were coming in the way. The result was that he couldn't eat properly or even take a decent shower. a team of officials finally cut the tusk shorter allowing free movement for his trunk. The 'operation' lasted for an hour and was carried out without any tranquilliser, writes Ananthakrishnan G in the Times of India |
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Lonely heart: Leopard looks for true love
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 |
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A love story in the making, a male snow leopard, Subhash, captive of a Himalayan nature park is looking for a partner. Last year due to a disease, its female companion Sapna died. Subhash is very lonely so the officials have decided to import a female companion for him and have asked many zoos in Hungary and US if they could send a female snow leopard, reports IANS from NDTV News. |
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Captive breeding to save endangered hangul
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Monday, July 07, 2008 |
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As per the latest census report released in March, its population has come down from 228 to 160 in the last four years. This, when in the late 1940s, some 5,000 hangul, also known as Kashmir stag, roamed the Himalayan region. Now the Central Zoo Authority will start a captive breeding programme for this endangered species by the end of the year in the foothills of the Himalayas, reports Sameer Arshad in the Times of India |
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40 crocodiles born at Vandalur
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Thursday, July 03, 2008 |
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More than 40 baby crocodiles hatched at the Vandalur Zoo In Chennai on the morning of July 3. The enclave has 67 adult inmates. Each of the young ones weighs 80 grams while the adults weigh more than 60 kg. Usually, the new ones do not consume food for at least a fortnight and remain with their mother. The ceilings of the enclave are not properly covered and the young ones are carried away by large birds and dropped into nearby water bodies. They grow up in these water bodies and gradually begin to pose a grave threat to the local people, reports D Madhavan in the Times of India |
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