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ENDANGERED SPECIES REINTRODUCTION
In 1997, couple started with 11 farms; decades later, their 67,000-acre reserve is home to more than 60 mammal speciesA South African couple’s nearly three-decade conservation effort has transformed 11 former livestock farms into a 67,000-acre wildlife rese...- In 2001, a scientist began rebuilding a rainforest on about 5,000 acres of burned Borneo grassland; the restored habitat became a refuge for orangutansA Dutch researcher regrew a rainforest on 5,000 acres of scorched land in Borneo. Willie Smits began restoring degraded land near Samboja i...
- The parrot on America’s El Yunque quarter once had only about 13 birds left in the wild; biologists bred and released new flocks across Puerto RicoFeatured on the 2012 US quarter, the Puerto Rican parrot symbolizes a triumph over extinction. In the 1990s, a genetic analysis unveiled a ...
- A couple gave up on a failing Sussex farm, pulled out the fences and let 3,500 acres go feral; it became the template for British rewildingA British farm, once burdened by debt, became a successful rewilding project. Free-roaming herbivores were introduced to restore the land's...
- Grey Hornbills at home in Gir landscape after over 60 yearsGujarat Forest Department achieved success with Indian Grey Hornbill reintroduction. Forty birds were released in two phases between 2021 a...
- A nearly 200-year-old cemetery comes alive after dark, where the dead share space with frogs, toads, and the scientists listening to themCitizen scientists are lending their ears to a crucial cause, listening for frog calls in Cambridge's historic Mount Auburn Cemetery. This ...
- In 1979, Japan released 30 mongooses onto Amami Oshima to kill venomous snakes, and it took 45 years to fix what happened nextJapan's ambitious plan to control venomous snakes on Amami Ōshima with Indian mongooses in 1979 backfired spectacularly. The introduced pre...
- Back from brink: India's vultures stage comeback as captive-breeding, release efforts gather paceVultures are making a comeback in India after a two-decade decline, with over 700 birds bred in captivity and released into protected tiger...
- PM Modi inaugurates Vantara in Gujarat: A landmark in wildlife conservationPrime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Vantara, the world's largest animal rescue and conservation centre in Gujarat. Spread over 3,500 a...
- Jairam Ramesh slams govt over its handling of Cheetah reintroduction programmeFormer environment minister Jairam Ramesh has criticised the government's approach to the Cheetah reintroduction programme, following the d...
- View: Welcoming back the cheetah to IndiaAll these factors induced by human action are symbolic of just one thing — an outright domination of the natural world by man. The reintrod...
- Bisons revive, freshwater dolphins dwindle: Conservationists
- Lease of life: The 185-km long Beas Conservation Reserve is helping protect many endangered aquatic speciesToday, the Beas in Punjab is the only Indian habitat of the functionally blind mammal, which uses echolocation to navigate underwater and h...
- Tortoise species new to India discovered in Arunachal jungle
- What's stopping the Asiatic lions of Gir from getting a new home?Gujarat’s refusal to move some of Gir’s lions to Madhya Pradesh despite the death of 24 lions has more to do with politics than the effecti...
- Kuno lion translocation report mum on conservationGujarat is being forced to share its pride – the Gir lions – with Madhya Pradesh just so that the neighbouring state becomes a more attract...
- Shift Asiatic lions from Gujarat to Madhya Pradesh: SC to CentreAsiatic lions will have a second home in Madhya Pradesh's Kuno wildlife sanctuary as the apex court permitted their relocation in limited n...
- Supreme Court allows translocation of Asiatic lions to Madhya PradeshThe Supreme Court today allowed trans-location of Asiatic lions from Gujarat to Madhya Pradesh, saying the species is under threat of extin...
- Workshop on cheetah relocation begins, views differStrategies to reintroduce the cheetah in the country's wild were discussed threadbare at a workshop on Wednesday with some experts supporti...
- Reserves for tigers, wildlife crime control fight in 2008Reintroduction of the stripped animals in the Sariska Tiger reserve, an increased budget allocation, framing of a tiger conservation plan b...
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