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Endangered Species in India

India is blessed with rich and most rare varieties of flora and fauna. A number of species of animals, birds, mammals make the Indian wildlife one of the richest in the world. But still endangered species are a black patch to Ind [...]

Posted On : Jul, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Indianapolis Zoo getting orphaned Fla. dolphin

An orphaned dolphin is getting a home at the Indianapolis Zoo. The zoo says it's been selected as the new home for 6-month-old Taz. The zoo says Taz is an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin that was found stranded Jan. 13 on a sandbar off S [...]

Posted On : Feb, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Indianapolis Zoo's polar bear dies

One of the world's oldest polar bears is dead at the age of 34. Indianapolis Zoo officials say the bear named Tahtsa (TOT'-sah) died Wednesday after years of declining health. Veterinarians decided to euthanize her when she could no longer [...]

Posted On : Aug, 13 2009 | Comments : 0

49 species of Indian mammals face danger: IUCN

As many as 49 species of Indian mammals are facing extreme levels of danger from problems ranging from poaching, habitat destruction, alteration and pollution, a study conducted by an international environment agency has said. The Internat [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2009 | Comments : 0

Four elephants electrocuted in India

SHILONG, November 22 (RIA Novosti) - Four wild Asiatic elephants, three females and a calf, have been electrocuted in India's northeast Meghalaya state, local media said on Thursday. The four elephants died after becoming entangled in high- [...]

Posted On : Nov, 22 2007 | Comments : 0

West Indian Manatee

Although recorded for the Carolinas, Georgia, and Texas, the West Indian manatee's centre of abundance in the United States was Florida where it frequented streams and brackish estuaries and fed solely on vegetation. Early depletion of this [...]

Posted On : Aug, 08 2007 | Comments : 0

Leopards in India are being Trapped through Ring-tones from ...

According to a new program to save life of passerby in the countryside of Gujarat, the western state of India, the approaching leopards are being distracted by the “mooing ring tones” from your cell phone. Instea [...]

Posted On : Jul, 02 2007 | Comments : 0

India Plans World's first Tiger Return after A Sudden Collap...

India’s Sariska Tiger Reserve - A Tiger Point in "Sariska Tiger Reserve" in India once used to be the home to big cats. But now antelope graze there with little to fear about a sign of India's national tiger. The [...]

Posted On : May, 07 2007 | Comments : 0

India's Rare Lions Haunted by Iron Traps & Pits

GIR NATIONAL PARK (Reuters) - Authorities have unearthed hundreds of large iron traps and pits in the world's only natural habitat for rare Asiatic lions after a spate of killings of the big cats by poachers in India. Gir National Park For [...]

Posted On : Apr, 20 2007 | Comments : 0

Poachers Kill India's 4 Rare Rhinos

INDIA - Kaziranga National Park – Poachers pose a renewed threat to rare and endangered species of rhinoceros when they killed four of them in a reserve in northeast India recently. Four one- horned rhinos were killed at the Kaziran [...]

Posted On : Mar, 22 2007 | Comments : 0

Three Rare Lions Killed in Indian Park

Rangers at the Gir National Park in the state of Gujarat found the mutilated bodies of two lionesses and a cub deep inside the park, said the park's conservation officer Bharat Pathak. According to an authentic estimate over 300 [...]