Wildlife Conservation

Fight Wildlife Poaching in Sumatra – Time to vote for Trevor Frost

by Prakash Rangarajan March 19, 2011

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. Aristotle Brew all of them together, add an insatiable urge to make a real difference to wildlife conservation and you have a noble cause – Helping park rangers protect endangered species from poaching in Sumatra, Indonesia. A [...]

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I Wish It Was Just A Bad Dream

by Sashi Kumar November 14, 2010

Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that I would have blood on my hands today. The incident happened just in the matter of a few seconds.Now, I am about 3kms away from the scene of that unavoidable calamity. Aimless, like a vagabond, I wandered in the green canopy that surrounded me. I [...]

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Deep Ecology and Conservation of Nature – Lecture by John Seed in Chennai

by Ishrath January 22, 2010
John Seed - Rainforest Conservation Activist

World renowned rainforest activist, John Seed, talks on Deep Ecology & Conservation of Nature, a philosophy that believes that the underlying reason for the environmental crisis is a psychological or spiritual disease stemming from the illusion of separation between humans and the rest of the natural world.

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Tiger Alert – Panna Tiger Reserve has no tigers

by Prakash Rangarajan June 27, 2009
Pix Credits - Avanindra Reddy

Three years back, the Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh had close to 40 tigers. Today, one two tigers exist, not the original striped denziens of the forest, but two tigresses translocated from Kanha and Badhavgarh.

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Illegal Wildlife Trade in India – The Black Market of Life

by Ishrath November 16, 2008
Tiger Poached - Pix Belinda Wright

An adult rhinoceros in Africa, during his late night walk, falls in a perfectly dug pit lined with spikes to die a slow and painful death. Another rhino in India touches a cable wire that sends 11 kilowatts jolt through its massive body, electrocuting it. Their horns are pulled out. Price of each horn: US$450,000

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Tiger population halved in the last 5 years

by Prakash Rangarajan February 13, 2008

The latest tiger census report says it all. Only 1,411 tigers left in the indian subcontintent according to the latest tiger census report by the Govt of India. All the more tragic is the fact that India has lost more than 50% of its tiger population in the last five years, a grim testimony to the rampant poaching, lack of conservation, the feeble will of the government in getting proactive about an issue that needs urgent redressal.

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Chinese Giant Salamander – Dwarfed by Man’s Greed

by Prakash Rangarajan January 24, 2008
Chinese Salamander - Pix Credits Rune Midtgaard

The Chinese Giant Salamader (Andrias davidianus) is an amphibian that has seen it all happen. Pre dating even the Tyrannosaurus rex, the largest living amphibian known to man is finding it quite difficult to escape extinction. Commonly found in aquatic habitats in the United States, China and Japan, it is quite uncommon nowadays to spot them, a sad testimony to man’s mindless destruction of eco habitat.

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