Guwahati, Jan 20 (IANS) The Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) has so far rescued and handled 7,397 wild animals belonging to 357 species in Assam’s Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve (KNPTR), officials said on Tuesday. The CWRC was established in 2002 as a collaborative initiative of the Assam Forest Department, the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). KNPTR Field Director Sonali Ghosh said that CWRC primarily focus…
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New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) To take forward the conservation of dolphins, the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change rolled out the second rangewide estimation of riverine and estuarine dolphins under Project Dolphin from Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor, an official said on Saturday. The dolphin population data comes close to the release of population estimation result of the first round by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the National Board for WildLife (NBWL) at Gir in March last year, th…
Ranchi, Dec 25 (IANS) Rail and road traffic across parts of Jharkhand continue to be severely affected due to frequent movement of wild elephants.Owing to repeated elephant crossings on the Manoharapur–Jharsuguda rail section under the Chakradharpur railway division, as many as 18 local passenger trains have been cancelled for four days, from December 25 to 28, railway officials said.The cancelled services include Tatanagar-Rourkela-Tatanagar MEMU, Chakradharpur–Rourkela-Chakradharpur MEMU, …