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More than 100,000 tigers spanned across Asia a century ago, from the Indian subcontinent to the Russian far east. Today they are endangered with only about 4,000 tigers left in the wild. The greatest threats they face are habitat loss and degradation, illegal hunting and declines in their prey.
Thanks to focused conservation efforts, tiger numbers have rebounded in some parts of their range. In Nepal, for example, the wild tiger population has nearly doubled from 121 in 2009 to 235 in 2018. But a road-building boom in Asia could undo this progress.
Land planners and conservation scientists, like me, need to know much more about how tigers respond to roads and railways, so we can find ways to safeguard these animals. We especially need this information for Nepal, which is one of the least-developed countries in the world, but is working to expand its economy and raise people out of poverty. Roads and railways are spreading rapidly through the forests and
The herd will be the largest in the Western Hemisphere.
Most of the elephants previously traveled nationwide with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus until they were retired in 2016
White Oak Conservation is building a 2,500-acre habitat including grasslands, forests and wetlands for the elephants.
YULEE A luxurious dust bath along with a satisfying butt scratch against a stone barn wall, and Myrtle
was ready to mosey into the forest nearby to forage for a morning snack or indulge in an old-fashioned wallow in a watering hole.
Freedom: wild open spaces to explore or a relaxed day spent in a spacious comfortable barn with the prospect of a treat to eat. Such simple pleasures once were denied
Cheetahs to make a comeback to India for the first time in 70 years
03 May 2021
Gulf Today Report
The year 1947 is known as a grim one.
It marked the end of existence for India’s Asiatic cheetahs, with Ramanuj Pratap Singh Deo, the maharaja of Koriya, a small kingdom located in the central state of Chhattisgarh, hunting down the last of the country’s predators.
With few unconfirmed sightings in subsequent years, the species was declared extinct by the Indian state in 1952.
Now, almost 70 years later, the world’s fastest mammal is set to walk on Indian grasslands again.
Having reached an understanding with South Africa and Namibia, the first batch of African cheetah is expected to arrive by the end of this year marking the first time that a large carnivore has been relocated from one continent to another.
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Few but the most dedicated ornithologist will know anything about Australiaâs Paradise parrot.
That is because it has the dubious distinction of being the only mainland Australian bird marked âextinctâ by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Its premature vanishment almost a century ago, meanwhile, remains prescient today when it comes to how best to protect other threatened Australian avian species.
That the Paradise parrot â
Psephotellus pulcherimus â was already on the verge of extinction by 1900 in its habitat on the Darling Downs in the Queensland colony speaks volumes about the dramatic environmental impact of colonisation on native grassy woodlands.