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Nearly 100 Endangered Vultures Found Dead, Many Others Critical In Assam About 100 Himalayan griffon vultures, a “near threatened” species, have died of suspected poisoning in Assam’s Kamrup district since Thursday night, prompting calls for the regulation of pesticide sale and stern action against those involved. “We suspect the vultures died after feeding on a …

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Lack Of Care To Captive Animals, Court Pulls Up Animal Welfare Board The Delhi High Court Monday pulled up the Animals Welfare Board of India (AWBI) for not being aware of the whereabouts of animals, who were kept in the circus which have been shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic and for showing lack of …

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Ram Pyari Mandakini river is in Danger in the country of Rambhakts, from U.P. to M.P. no one to save: Chitrakoot Encroachment, concretisation, sewage dumping and pollution are killing the Mandakini, a tributary of the Yamuna that flows near Chitrakoot town in Uttar Pradesh. The political leadership in both Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh are …

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Snow leopards, humans threaten by Zoonotic pathogens in High Asia thanks to climate change and Globalisation: GSLEP The remote mountains of inner Asia could witness future pandemics which could threaten both humans as well as non-human species such as snow leopards, due to Globalisation and Climate Warming a new policy brief during GSLEP has said. Globalisation — including …

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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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