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Ananda Banerjee 09:41 PM | May 03,2012
Conservation activists are calling for an upgrade in the status of Nandhaur, which may be harbouring a rich reserve by way of wildlife, but has the lowest levels of protection with its land increasingly being used by the government for development needs
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Ananda Banerjee 10:41 PM | May 02,2012
The vultures’ virtual absence has also led to a growing population of other scavengers including feral dogs, which spread diseases like rabies.
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Ananda Banerjee 08:40 PM | May 01,2012
As grasslands shrink, the world’s smallest and rarest wild pig is among the most threatened of species endemic to the habitat
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Ananda Banerjee 08:32 PM | March 30,2012
April and May are the best months to see wild tuskers up close, and witness the rare sight of elephants mating, at the Jim Corbett National Park
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Ananda Banerjee 10:04 PM | March 29,2012
The Vermas may have found it easy and exciting to rediscover the Uttarakhand macaque, but six years later their day-to-day work at the Haldwani forest division poses stiffer challenges
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Ananda Banerjee 08:16 PM | March 21,2012
How a forest officer’s idea on rainwater harvesting helped rejuvenate the dying Himalayan springs in Sikkim
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Ananda Banerjee 06:25 PM | March 15,2012
Economic growth sometimes comes at the cost of the environment. These costs should be counted
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Ananda Banerjee 12:12 AM | March 02,2012
Poaching is a problem at India’s national parks, but nowhere is it as serious as in Kaziranga, where guards have been ordered to shoot poachers on sight—a first in the country
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Ananda Banerjee 11:08 PM | February 24,2012
Forest land diverted in the last five years is about 25% of all such land used for development projects since 1981
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Ananda Banerjee 09:06 PM | February 08,2012
The proposed power project at Zemithang valley could put the black-necked crane further at risk
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Ananda Banerjee 10:24 PM | February 03,2012
The rickshaw pullers of Bharatpur double as expert birding guides. And though they’re fighting to save the birding paradise, they fear their own fate may be in jeopardy
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Ananda Banerjee 08:12 PM | January 11,2012
Ever-spreading human habitation is disrupting the movement of the jumbos, often leading to violent confrontations
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Ananda Banerjee 12:54 AM | December 09,2011
Experts say there is an urgent need to set up a conservation effort on the lines of Project Tiger to save the bird
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Ananda Banerjee 12:06 AM | November 12,2011
This time of the year, birds of prey take centre stage at Tal Chapar, a wildlife sanctuary in the heart of Rajasthan’s desert district of Churu
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Ananda Banerjee 10:36 PM | November 08,2011
Changing cultivation practices are disrupting the critical role rice fields play in sustaining hundreds of bird species in the Indian subcontinent
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