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19 tigers, 25 leopards electrocuted in 5 years in Maharashtra Though the forest department has managed to bust gangs of organized tiger poachers, there is no let-up in killing of wild animals either by local poachers for bushmeat or by farmers to protect crops.Analysis of data compiled by NGO Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI) …

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India will not get African Cheetahs this year due to Omicron Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh was all prepped to welcome the African cheetahs — a project that has been a decade in the making — this year. The project has now been postponed, as the new coronavirus variant of concern omicron prompted travel …

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Save Cheetahs but not on the stake of Tigers: Rajasthan The exercise taken by the state forest department to introduce cheetah in Mukundra Hills Tiger Reserve (MHTR) by neglecting tiger management has invited sharp criticism from wildlife experts, animal lovers and environmentalists. Cheetah relocation should not be done before proper tiger management in the reserve. …

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Veteran Endian Sundarlal Bahuguna dies of COVID Veteran environmentalist and architect of the Chipko Movement Sundarlal Bahuguna died May 21, 2021, at the age of 94, Press Trust of India reported. He had been admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand after having contracted the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Bahuguna was one of the leaders …

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India should double prepare for its Cheetah Reintroduction Programme It was the year 1947 when Ramanuj Pratap Singh Deo, the maharaja of Koriya, a small kingdom located in central state of Chhattisgarh, hunted the last of India’s Asiatic cheetahs. With few unconfirmed sightings in subsequent years, the species was declared extinct by the Indian state in 1952. Now, almost 70 …

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Maharashtra: 1,500 villagers come collectively to protest JNPT’s survey Over 1,500 native residents from villages close to Vadhavan in Dahanu got here collectively on the proposed web site of the Vadhavan port on Wednesday to indicate their opposition to a survey being carried out by the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT). Men, girls and youngsters got here …