LYLA BAVADAM, Frontline
National
10 Feb 2012
Vultures continue to fall prey to diclofenac, banned as a veterinary drug, and remain on the IUCN`s Red List.
The Himalayan vulture, a critically endangered bird, at Kedarnath in Uttarakhand in this September 2011 photograph. Also known as Himalayan griffon, it feeds on carcasses.
UNTIL the mid-1990s, it was believed that there were about 40 million vultures in India. But towards...
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Aravind Gowda, mail today
New Delhi
5 Feb 2012
A stone crushing unit is posing a grave threat to a highly sensitive ecological habitat in Karnataka, home to one of the last surviving groups of tigers in India.
The unauthorised quarry, which operates round the clock, is situated in a sensitive zone of the Biligirirangaswamy Temple (BRT) Tiger Reserve, 260 km southwest of Bangalore.
The reserve forest is home to 36 big cats and the ecolog...
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Prerna Singh Bindra, Sunday Pioneer
New Delhi
29 Jan 2012
Prerna Singh Bindra travels with noted American conservationist George Schaller across several tiger territories to come out satisfied that the big cat’s future rests with India
Mist envelops the verdant forests of Corbett, swirling around the grasses and trees, and I huddle deeper in my layers of warmth, as the Gypsy trundles slowly up the dirt path on the Bijrani road. We are just a ...
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Chetan Chauhan, Hindustan Times
New Delhi
22 Jan 2012
Don`t book that ticket to Africa yet to see the fastest animal on Earth the cheetah. It’s going to be coming from Namibia to Madhya Pradesh in the next one year.
The environment and forests ministry is set to clear the import of the African cheetah to Kuno Palpur, 210 km from Gwalior, despite reservation from some wildlife experts.
India saw the last cheetah in the wild shot dead 64 years ag...
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