Now, after complaints of trafficking in endangered species, the government is trying to shut down the attraction. But there are two major obstacles: the temple, which has gone to court to block the closing, and the tigers. What do you do with nearly 150 carnivorous cats raised in captivity? See link below to read this continuing saga in The New York Times.
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The Wildlife Protection Society of India reported on Friday that twenty-eight tigers were killed by poachers between 1st January and 26th April this year, which is three more than during all the 12 months of last year. Read more about these tragic statistics by following the link below to an article in Market Business News.
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In the year 1900, there may have been as many or more than 100,000 tigers roaming this planet's forests. And every year since then until now, that number has decreased. But a combination of better and broader monitoring techniques and, governments say, increased vigilance against poachers has led to the first increase in tiger numbers in over a century — to 3,890 this year. Some of the biggest increases were in India, which, in its latest tiger census, claimed a 30 percent population ...
Accused Vipin Varmiya, 37, was posted in the buffer zone near the park's Turia gate. This is the fifth arrest in the case. He reportedly was among the group which used to poison water bodies in buffer zones to poach spotted deer. Varmiya had been doing this for last many months. He is being interrogated for ascertaining number of animals he had killed in the recent past. STF officials said his statement has been recorded. Please follow the link below to read the story in The Times of ...
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Experts from the Bareilly-based Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) have found "nothing unusual" in the behavior of nine-year-old tiger T-24, also known as 'Ustad', that was translocated from Ranthambhore in Rajasthan to Udaipur after a forester was attacked and killed by a male tiger in the National Park. Though it was not clear whether it was T-72 or T-24 that attacked, Ustad was shifted as there were three incidents against him. Since then T-24 has been under obser ...
In 2010, it was estimated that there were 3,200 tigers left in the wild. ...