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Stars to get the homecoming they deserve
Chennai, February 2, 2012: About 500 Indian star tortoises, repatriated from Malaysia, were moved to the Arignar Anna Zoological Park in Chennai yesterday for appropriate care and eventual rehabilitation into the wild.
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Leopard skin and body parts seized in Himachal
Shimla, January 30, 2012: Three suspected wildlife traders were nabbed and booked under various sections of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 in Chaupal (Himachal Pradesh) on Friday for possessing wildlife goods including one leopard skin, two leopard skulls, about 11 kgs of leopard bones, 13 leopard claws and seven canines.
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One for the Wolf
New Delhi, January 30, 2012: In Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book, Mowgli was adopted and raised by a pack of wolves. They helped him survive in the jungles of India and protected him from harm. Now in the Indian jungles, the wolf struggles for survival, threatened by people, and yet, with people as the only hope.
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Sariska tiger poacher sentenced to three years imprisonment
Alwar (Rajasthan), January 24, 2011: A person was sentenced to three years imprisonment by the Court of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate – II, Alwar, last Friday, for poaching a tiger from Sariska Tiger Reserve.
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Transformation complete: bear dancers to conservationists
Bodh Gaya (Bihar), January 24, 2012: Committing to help eradicate bear dancing from the country, 24 former bear dancers rehabilitated by WSPA-WTI will now advocate alternative livelihoods among fellow Kalandars and promote conservation and welfare of sloth bears.
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Deathly strokes threaten mongoose: Paint brushes for export abroad seized in Kolkata
New Delhi, January 17, 2012: ‘Think before you act’. As children, many of us learnt this moral through the popular fable – The Mongoose and The Farmer’s Wife. Now, the mongoose needs us to think and to act; and fast, before it is ‘painted’ out.
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Another gibbon family moves to secure habitat, relocation project progresses
Roing (Arunachal Pradesh), January 10, 2011: A second family of Eastern hoolock gibbons was successfully translocated from the village of Dello to the Mehao Wildlife Sanctuary on Sunday as part of a project to save a stranded group of this endangered species of ape in Arunachal Pradesh. The family moved consisted of a male, female and a juvenile male. They were captured on January 7, and monitored overnight before being released near Sally lake in the sanctuary.
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Conflict elephant evades “death sentence”
Rajaji National Park (Uttarakhand), January 7, 2012: An adult tusker, allegedly involved in human elephant conflict, was captured from Narendranagar Forest Division and relocated to the Chilla Range of the Rajaji National Park on Saturday in a joint operation by the Uttarakhand Forest Department, Wildlife Institute of India (WII) and the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), after two months of efforts.
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Aid for Greater Manas during the festive season
Kokrajhar (Bodoland, Assam), December 24, 2011: Continuing to strengthen conservation of Greater Manas landscape, aid was provided to various stakeholders under the Greater Manas Conservation Fund (GMCF) at an event held today in Kokrajhar.
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