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Veerappan lair turns tiger park
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010 |
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The notorious sandalwood smuggler's lair is going to be turned into India's 39th tiger reserve.The Centre has asked the State government in Tamil Nadu to submit a proposal on how the Sath-yamangalam wildlife sanctuary can be converted into a tiger park, reports Hindustan Times. |
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Gujarat's hopes of getting Cheetah dashed for now
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Thursday, July 29, 2010 |
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The hoped of Gujarat to get Cheetah was dashed. A report said that the current prey base in Banni is extremely low and it needs a lot of development by the Gujarat government before cheetah can be introduced. In 2009, the Government decided that Cheetah will be introduced in India, reports Daily News And Analysis. |
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Asian nations pledge to double tiger count
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Monday, July 19, 2010 |
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13 Asian nations pledged to double the count of tigers at a recent meeting in Bali. The decision was made along, with the World Bank’s Global Tiger Initiative (GTI). The plan is expected to serve as a roadmap for tiger conservation. The national action plan included providing skills and equipments to rangers and officials, reports The Pioneer. |
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Pod Cast: Karol Boudreaux on Wildlife, Property, and Poverty in Africa
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Monday, September 22, 2008 |
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Karol Boudreaux, Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about wildlife management in Africa. Their conversation focuses on community-based wildlife management in Namibia, a policy to give communities the incentives to protect wildlife and avoid the tragedy of the commons. |
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Pod Cast: Karol Boudreaux on Wildlife, Property, and Poverty in Africa
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Monday, September 22, 2008 |
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Karol Boudreaux, Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about wildlife management in Africa. Their conversation focuses on community-based wildlife management in Namibia, a policy to give communities the incentives to protect wildlife and avoid the tragedy of the commons. |
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Birth control for crocodiles in Chennai
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Saturday, July 26, 2008 |
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Surgeons of the Madras Veterinary College have conducted a performed a non-invasive birth control surgery on Mugger Crocodiles. The surgery involves the fusion of the spermatazoan groove to prevent sperm transfer. This is the first time in the world that a surgery of this kind has been conducted reports TNN from Times of India. |
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Sariska looks to the sky for tiger, village women to new jobs
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Saturday, June 28, 2008 |
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Inside Sariska tiger reserve's core area, 20 women from the tiny village of Haripura have signed up for the daily tiger patrol, to keep and eye on the tiger. Forest officials in Sariska are trying to draw some lessons from the earlier loss of tigers in their reserve. One, creating better enforcement, by harnessing ex-Army persons involved in anti-poaching. Two, looking at more local co-operation and asking villagers to be a part of local patrolling, reports Neha Sinha in the Indian Express. |
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A New Call of the Wild: Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Namibia
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Thursday, May 01, 2008 |
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The Namibian government is currently addressing twin goals of environment protection and rural economic development. The core of this policy change involves a devolution of property rights to indigenously managed conservancies. Conservancies are provided with legal rights to manage the wildlife population and to benefit from tourism taking place within the conservancy’s grounds. Benefiting from tourism creates an incentive for conservancy members to preserve and maintain wildlife, as these are the major attractions for tourists, writes Karol Boudreaux in Enterprise Africa |
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So, are you for the tigers or the tribals?
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 |
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A comparison of forest department records with satellite imagery from the Forest Survey of India (2003) suggests that, at least, about 12.4 per cent (about 96,000 sq km) of India's recorded forest cover is misclassified. Put simply, when you consider that entire communities of people are being rendered criminals purely for living as they traditionally have, it becomes evident that the status quo is contrary to any principles of a democratic society, writes Anant Sudarshan in the Indian Express. |
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