tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58364849439944798402012-02-09T15:11:16.150-08:00It is a paradox that traditional hunting has actually preserved wildlife and the natural environment, which would have been obliterated by other activities of modern man. In another paradox, most hunters eventually go on to become ardent champions of preserving the environment and protecting wildlife.Airavatnoreply@blogger.comBlogger521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5836484943994479840.post-58545740357206084842010-09-16T21:34:00.000-07:002010-09-16T21:54:45.760-07:00

A member of a government-approved hunting team shoots at a wild boar on a mountain on back in February 23, 2005 in Huoshan County of Anhui Province, China [source:LIFE]. But despite this, five years on the wild boar population in China continue to be a threat to farmers, and on occasion the boars have also entered urban areas. The problem is more acute in southern China.In northeast China, wild

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A pack of dhole, the Indian wild dog, which had an extensive range covering India, SE Asia, and China, in the past, but is now concentrated in the wildlife sanctuaries of Central and Southern India (photo from The Peacock Stall). The dhole is also known as the Asiatic wild dog, Indian wild dog, or the Red dog. Instead of the usual 42 teeth of other dog species, the dholes have only 40 teeth and

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The wild boar fights when cornered, sometimes against such animals like tigers and leopards. Sometimes it clashes with, and inadvertently kills, humans. A 2009 study by the Wildlife Institute of India on the "Human–Wild Pig Conflict in Selected States in India" found that 309 humans were killed or injured between 1990-2008 by wild boar. But only 12 cases of these 309 were of wild boar killing

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The Himachal Pradesh government responded to pressure from farmers and allowed the culling of animals like wild boar, which have rapidly multiplied in number and cause extensive damage to crops. Himachal Kisan Sabha (HKS), led by President Kuldeep Singh Tanwar, sought government permission to kill wild boars and blue bulls. In case of no response by the government, Tikender Panwar, secretary HKS,

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Experts believe there could be more than 500 wild boar roaming between Kent and East Sussex, in England. And without predators such as wolves, the tusked animals are top of the food chain, meaning numbers are not controlled naturally. The wild boar herds are being blamed for killing lambs, destroying crops and, in the worst cases, attacking dogs, as they rapidly expand across the county.Kent

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Keoladeo National Park in Rajasthan has an area of 2873 hectare (28.73 sq kms). Artificially created in 1850 by the Maharaja of Bharatpur, water is fed into the marshes (forming 1000 hectares of the park) twice a year from inundations of the Gambhir and Banganga rivers, which are impounded on arable land by means of a artificial dam called Ajan Bund, to the south of the park. The remaining area

Airavatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5836484943994479840.post-42305671947883497552010-01-09T17:46:00.003-08:002010-01-09T18:04:29.512-08:00

WWF-Indonesia's Sumatran tiger research team set up four video camera traps in known tiger routes in a forested "wildlife corridor" between two protected areas in central Sumatra - Rimbang Baling Wildlife Reserve in Riau province and Bukit Tigapuluh National Park straddling both Riau and Jambi provinces. Fewer than 400 Sumatran Tigers survive in the wild and video footage on them in the past has

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6 wild boar have been donated by the Royal Zoological Society to Scotland's Highland Wildlife Park at Kincraig near Kingussie, in a project aimed at the regeneration of ancient Caledonian forests. It is hoped that the boar will control the spread of bracken which shades out other wild plants. Bracken grows rapidly through underground runners called rhizomes. Because its fronds are toxic to most

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A proposed tiger summit is to be hosted by PM Vladimir Putin in Vladivostok and include leaders of countries such as India and China, according to Igor Chestin, director of the Russian branch of the World Wildlife Fund, and Deputy Natural Resources Minister Igor Maidanov. The goal of the program, which could involve as many as 13 countries, would be to double the number of tigers worldwide to

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An old photo from WDCS, showing a fisherman holding a rescued Ganga River Dolphin. I use the word "Ganga" in preference to its anglicised form "Ganges". The anthropogenic, or human related activity, over the past century has left a negative impact on this rare species. Known in the various parts of the Indian continent as shushuk, susu, sous, hihu, and seho, this freshwater dolphin inhabits the

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The wild boar originated in Asia and colonized parts of Africa and all of Europe. There are no native boar in North America; the "wild hog" in the southern United States are descended from domestic pigs gone feral. In the 20th century wild boar from Europe and Russia were introduced in some parts for hunting purposes. In the state of West Virginia these exotic imports are in a gradual decline for

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The forest department of Rajasthan has received a grant of Rs 104 crore from the Centre for relocation of villages from the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve. Source say, the state sought Rs 130 crore from the Centre but was sanctioned Rs 104 crore. The money would be used to compensate those villagers in Ranthambore who voluntarily give up their land inside the forest reserve and choose to settle

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As the wild boar population explodes across Europe, the wild animals have been declared a menace in France. Despite the best efforts of the men in paramilitary uniforms (who often seem to end up shooting one another), the wild boar population of France has increased five-fold in the last 20 years to reach an estimated one million. Public MenaceLast week, the wild boar, sanglier or Sus scrofa was

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Ever since 2005, there have been nearly 30 cases of wild boars attacking residents and citizens in Seoul, the capital of South Korea. Due to the disappearance of predators such as tigers, leopards and wolves, the wild boar population has exploded and the total crop damage last year was worth 6.5 billion won (some 6.2 million US dollars).The Seoul TimesThe residents in Yanggu-gun said that they

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The red jungle fowl is found in 21 Indian states of the North, Centre, and North-East. With its distinctive plumage, like the eclipse moult in males, the red jungle fowl is the ancestor of all domestic chicken. It was first domesticated in India and South-East Asia, from where the species spread west to the Middle-East and Europe. Ironically the domestic species is proving to be a threat to the

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Following Naxal attacks in Orissa, Forest Department officiials in the famous Similipal Biosphere Reserve (SBR) of Mayurbhanj district, have deserted their posts since March. The rich reserve is now under attack from the timber mafia and poachers, alleges the Mayurbhanj Forum. “One or two blasts by naxalites shattered everything. It is very painful to witness fast depletion of forest and wildlife

Airavatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5836484943994479840.post-7837621540191417442009-07-18T23:05:00.000-07:002009-07-18T23:12:21.926-07:00

Unlike its African cousin, the Asiatic cheetah is confined to the semi-desert hills and mountainous regions of east-central Iran. And due to the excessive hunting of their main prey, the gazelles, and being chased by high-speed motorcycles, the remaining cheetahs have been forced to even higher ranges where they hunt mountain rams and goats in relative safety.Iran has formulated the second phase

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SMHNearly 8000 feral pigs have been culled during three aerial shoots in the Darling River wetlands over the past eight months. Heavy rain and floods had created a "pig heaven" in New South Wales, where boars can reach 140 kilograms, feeding on grasses, vegetable roots and dead animals.These pigs are descended from domestic imports in the late 1700s that went wild. Estimates of population size

Airavatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5836484943994479840.post-72702860379805679842009-06-29T02:46:00.001-07:002009-06-29T02:52:42.140-07:00

The tiger reserve of Panna in Madhya Pradesh lost 40 tigres to poaching over the last two years. Following the successful tiger tranlocation in Sariska, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has cleared a proposal to translocate two tigers and two tigresses to the Panna Tiger Reserve.Indian ExpressBut in a letter to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the MoEF has made

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Western Tragopan hens have laid 52 eggs in the Sarahan Pheasantry. According to assistant conservator forest, Sandeep Sharma, 28 of these have been found to be fertile and one chick has already hatched under a natural breeding hen. Above photo (from Tragopan photopages) shows aviaries for the Western Tragopan and other Himalayan Pheasants in the Pheasantry.HimachalAn excited, K Thrimul, division

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The male Western Tragopan, photo by conservationist and pheasant expert John Corder. Formerly found across the Himalayan region, fewer than 5000 birds remain in the wild.To aid in its preservation, the Western Tragopan was declared the State Bird of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, and a captive breeding program at the Sarahan Pheasantry in that state is attempting to boost its numbers. In

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As the wild boar population explodes in Europe, it leads to great opportunities for hunting. In Sweden hunting wild boar was a passtime of the nobility but the animals became extinct as early as the 1600s. Today's wild boar are descended from animals that escaped from a pen in Trosa, near Stockholm, in the 1970s. Since the early nineties the population has been increasing by 13 percent a year to

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Gir lions are colonizing new stretches of grassland and forest in the satellite regions of the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary. Many of these regions are small sanctuaries like Velavadar above, where there is a prey base of nilgai antelope for the lions. The distant low hills and dry grasslands form a natural habitat for the lions similar to Gir, but there are other stretches of forest which have seen an

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Russian foresters in Primorskiy Krai territory, in the far east of Siberia, saved a young wild boar in the National Park. The weakened beast was lying on the snow and did not even try to run away from the rangers. The foresters brought the animal on the road and got it to Dersu village on their car.At the present time the boar is all right. After rehabilitation the beast will be set free. The

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A collared tiger in Myanmar's Hukawng Valley reserve. Photo by Steve Winter - see his National Geographic Image CollectionThe Malaysian news agency Bernama reports, "Myanmar is building a 405-hectare wildlife park lying at Putao between Mularoti and Zayar mountains. There is also a large tiger reserve called Hukuang in the same state established in 2004 on an area of about 22,000 square

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Wild boar in the Pyrenees. photo: Javier Ara, SINCScience CentricWild boar in the Aragonese Pyrenees live in large, continuous areas of forest, where food sources are unpredictable. However, the population of wild boar in the mid-valley of the Ebro lives in a system of intensive farming that has been transformed by humans, and is characterized by thickets where there are few areas for shelter but

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The agriculture ministry in the Himalayan country of Bhutan has compiled a report that shows the annual crop loss from wild animals, particularly wild boar, is up to 18 percent of household income. Farmers spent an average of two months a year guarding their maize and rice, especially at night, causing additional expenses. While the situation calls for wildlife management, the agriculture

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Wild boar became extinct on the island of Britain back in the 13th century, from the conversion of forests into farmland and through excessive hunting. Since the animal was considerd a delicacy among the ruling Normans, several attempts were made later on to re-introduce the wild boar in Britain. But now handful of wild boar raised in select farms and enclosed parks have multiplied quickly to

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In this Oct. 24, 2007 file photo, Intan, a Malaysian tiger at the Little Rock, Ark., Zoo, plays with a pumpkin. Malaysia has launched an ambitious plan to double its wild tiger population within 12 years by protecting jungle corridors where poachers prey on the endangered big cats, activists said Monday, Dec. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)Malaysia has launched an ambitious plan to

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The case of the migrating tigers from Ranthambore shows that wildlife and human beings will always be in conflict over land. And this conflict is not limited to mammals only; plant life is also continuously looking for fresh areas to strike its roots into. Their seeds are spread by natural forces like the wind and by wild animals far and wide to ensure genetic diversity.If there is no human

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A young male tiger, named T-83, has been missing from the Ranthambore National Park for the past few months. The missing tiger is the offspring of tigress Machili and a sibling of T-1, the tigress sent out for the Sariska tiger translocation. Recently a farmer spotted a tiger in faraway Darrah Wildlife Sanctuary, a former game reserve of the Maharaos of Kota, which lost all its tigers despite

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The Mundanthurai Wildlife Sanctuary (pic from travelblog) is the only tiger reserve in the Southern Western Ghats, lying in the Tamil Nadu state. It is part of the larger Agasthyamalai Biosphere Reserve, which covers the entire mountain range, and straddles the border between Tamil Nadu and Kerala states.Established in 1962, Mundanthurai was joined to the adjacent Kalakkad Wildlife Sanctuary over

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A tiger at Pench FlickrWith real time information available through observation of tigers fitted with satellite collars, GPS collars and radio VHF collars, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) is for the first time creating a system for a central database on tiger movement and analysis. Tigers in Pench and Ranthambhore are fitted with Very High Frequency (VHF) radio collars, while two

Airavatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5836484943994479840.post-70629489762121172572008-11-26T14:42:00.000-08:002008-11-26T15:23:40.616-08:00

Six wild boar hunted in the Maine-et-Loire region of France on November 11. Photo : Joël Le GallWild Boar, called Sanglier in France, are today believed to be ten times the number found in 1990. Some estimate the total figure to be close to a million! The wild boar population has also exploded in Germany.The reason for this increase in numbers is the same as in Germany; milder winters due to

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Wild Boar shot in Germany. Image from Matthias George.The German Hunters' Association (DJV) spokesman Torsten Reinwald announced on Wednesday that between April 2007 and March 2008, hunters killed 477,000 wild boars — 66 percent more than the previous year just to keep the population stable. Wild boar, called Wildschwein in Germany, don't need much beyond warmth and food, he said, and there are

Airavatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5836484943994479840.post-74517748989849117402008-11-22T15:27:00.002-08:002008-11-24T15:07:28.229-08:00

Tigress and her cubs in the Ranthambore National Park. Photo by Aditya Singh from Ranthambore.netAnother tigress is set to fly to Sariska from Ranthambore after a tiger and a tigress had earlier been moved to the 881sqkm Sariska Wlidlife Sanctuary in Alwar from Ranthambore, 200km away, as part of what experts call the world's first "scientifically planned" translocation of the

Airavatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5836484943994479840.post-70702233362748086272008-11-18T15:43:00.000-08:002009-10-01T23:54:05.839-07:00

Hunting scene depicted in the ancient Juna Mahal of DungarpurThe Dungarpur princely state saw first the extinction of its tigers, and then their successful re-introduction. At the time the small state was merged with Independent India, its forests had 25 tigers. Today the tiger is gone but stretches of forest still remain.Dungarpur is situated in the southern Aravalli Hills, on Rajasthan's border

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The Great Indian Bustard is the state bird of Rajasthan. Its Rajasthani name is Godawan. Since this grassland bird prefers dry vegetation, which stays below its eye-level and does not hamper its flight, the Great Indian Bustard's largest remaining population is around Jaisalmer in the Thar Desert. An area of 3162 square kilometers in the Jaisalmer-Barmer districts was notified as the Desert

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Bustard in flight, pic by Arpit DeomurariThe Great Indian Bustard was formerly found in great numbers across India; today it has been reduced to isolated pockets of grassy habitat. The total population is down to 500 or less, the great majority in Rajasthan. And yet the endangered bird's habitat continues to be threatened.The Maharashtra government had in 1979 declared an area of the 8,500sq km

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In the foreword to the book, The Tiger of Rajasthan, by Colonel Kesri Singh, it is written, "Kesri's parents perhaps forestalled his talents and aptitude and named him Kesri (Tiger)."Now this foreword is written by no less a personality than Sawai Man Singh, the Maharaja of Jaipur, under whom Kesri Singh was employed in his long career as a wildlife expert and conservator of forests. It is

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Tiger in Ranthambore from ShikharFor all the tiger blood that was spilt however, everyone acknowledges that it was only thanks to the maharajas of yesteryear that forests such as this survive today. Around their shikargahs Rajasthan lies ruined, wasted in chasing delusions of development. The once contiguous forest tracts running through the states of Alwar, Jaipur, Karauli, Dholpur, Kota, Bundi,

Airavatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5836484943994479840.post-56765615555371400302008-11-07T14:34:00.000-08:002008-12-15T20:08:25.150-08:00

The Dachigam wildlife preserve was created in 1910 by Maharaja Hari Singh. The upper reaches of the preserve contain summer grazing grounds, and the Marsar Lake (above), which is the source of the Daghwan River that flows into Srinagar's Dal Lake. In 1951 Dachigam was declared a sanctuary and in 1981 a national park, yet the total area and the wildlife population has been consistently decreasing

Airavatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5836484943994479840.post-37955454778224622742008-11-06T19:23:00.001-08:002010-03-26T21:29:45.935-07:00

The Jammu & Kashmir state in India, is blessed with diverse natural habitats: the sub-Himalayan hills and forests in Jammu, the Himalayan valley of Kashmir, and the sparsely populated trans-Himalayan regions of Ladakh, Baltistan, and Gilgit. Although like other diverse parts of India, these different regions have been connected together throughout known history, they were united in the 19th

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This 19th century miniature painting from the Rajput Kingdom of Mewar shows a wild boar fighting a tiger. The different stages of the fight, depicted in the painting, are a testament to the toughness and fighting spirit of the wild boar.In the Tiger of Rajasthan, the book by wildlife expert Colonel Kesri Singh, there is an actual photograph of a tiger raised on its powerful hind legs, fighting a

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Gir lion from Rasik ButaniOn an average, 25 to 30 lion deaths have been reported every year for the past three years, yet the lion population in the Gir Forest is beyond the protected area's carrying capacity, wildlife experts say. Since 2002, wildlife scientist Y.V. Jhala has radio collared 18 lions, to track their movement. "Radio collaring has shown that lions have set up meta-populations

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Last week there was a report of more than a dozen spotted deer being killed by suspected jackals inside the Arignar Anna Zoological Park in Chennai. According to zoo officials, over the last fortnight, some spotted deer in the free range zone — an open area which makes up the bulk of the 1,300-acre park and where animals such as deer and jackals are left to roam free — were found dead with their

Airavatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5836484943994479840.post-75093542187552230242008-10-31T22:29:00.000-07:002008-11-04T18:46:18.904-08:00

Cheetah Drawing in H Weir Routledge’s Picture Natural History, 1885The Hindi name Cheetah, and its variant Chitrah in other Indian languages, is derived from the Sanskrit word Chitraka.....meaning speckled. The primary cause of the cheetah's extinction was habitat destruction. The relatively docile nature of this carnivore towards man also shaped much of its history in India.India is not alone in

Airavatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5836484943994479840.post-3305891737016275942008-10-25T20:28:00.000-07:002009-07-18T23:13:24.165-07:00

More photos and information on Cheetahs at WHO ZOOThe state forest department in Rajasthan is planning to re-introduce Cheetahs to the Gajner forests on the outskirts of Bikaner.TOIAccording to additional chief secretary (social infrastructure) Parmesh Chandra, "We are planning to bring back the cheetah to India. Currently, a proposal is being prepared by the department for bringing the African

Airavatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5836484943994479840.post-29315448719627258762008-10-24T22:24:00.000-07:002008-11-04T18:35:54.404-08:00

A Junagadh court has sentenced 20 persons including eight women to three year imprisonment for killing six lions in the Gir sanctuary home of Asiatic lions. The verdict first of its kind under the Wildlife Act is the result of immaculate police investigation well supported by the evidence documented by the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL). In 2007 the poachers had killed six lions in the Babaria

Airavatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5836484943994479840.post-80668965678021329302008-10-21T14:57:00.000-07:002008-11-26T15:22:00.472-08:00

As the last post showed, tigers and lions have co-existed in the same region, from the evidence provided in the miniature paintings of Kotah but probably not in the same habitat. The lion inhabited the more open and plain grasslands, while the tiger roamed the dense forests and hills. In the neighboring Kingdom of Mewar, miniature paintings commonly illustrate tigers in that mostly hilly

Airavatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5836484943994479840.post-81654002824903681022008-10-13T16:15:00.000-07:002008-11-04T18:24:20.253-08:00

Tigers and lions are apex predators in their respective habitats. The tiger is usually found in dense forest while the lion mostly inhabit the open grassland. The two predators are separated by geography as well.....the tiger inhabiting Asia and the lion in Africa. However their paths may have crossed in the 19th and early 20th century India; where the last remaining specimens of the Asiatic lion

Airavatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5836484943994479840.post-31881545093498444072008-03-27T01:48:00.000-07:002008-12-10T13:08:50.094-08:00

It is said that Maharana Pratap, when chosen to be the next ruler of Mewar, won the confidence of his nobles and soldiers by riding out with them to hunt wild boar.Hunting has been a ritual and necessity of almost all cultures around the world, and has been universal across all civilizations in history. Some hunted for food, some in self-defence, some to protect their crops and homes, and still

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