Nawada (Bihar): Tamanna, the ten-year-old daughter of rehabilitated Kalandar (sloth bear performer) Sovrati began attending preparatory school as her first step to formal education, only two months ago. She is one of several fortunate ones. Her father gave up the semi-nomadic existence of performing sloth bear dances to take up alternative livelihood options provided by the World [...]

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Delhi: Four years of perhaps the most successful animal campaign in India culminated last month with the celebration of a ‘day’ dedicated exclusively to the target species- the whale shark. An honour that has been conferred to no other species in this country, including the tiger, the ‘whale shark day’ was observed on November 27, [...]

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One of the female rhinos examines the opening
before stepping out of the boma

Manas (Assam): Three female greater one-horned rhinoceros were released in the wild from their temporary enclosure(boma) in Manas National Park in western Assam late last week.

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Officials of Assam Forest Department, Northeast Frontier Railway and Wildlife Trust of India meet in Guwahati to discuss train hit mitigation measures

Guwahati (Assam): Senior officials of the Assam Forest Department, Northeast Frontier Railway and Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), met yesterday at the Assam State Zoo to formulate strategies to mitigate elephant deaths in railway [...]

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Alipurduar (West Bengal): The Additional District Judge of Alipurduar, West Bengal, yesterday rejected the appeal of Ratiram Sharma, the notorious wildlife trader, upholding his conviction and sentence, announced by the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Alipurduar, on November 24, 2006. Sharma had been sentenced to an imprisonment for five years and a fine of 10,000 [...]

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