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Why Javelina Keep Showing Up in Arizona Yards… And What’s Really Bringing Them InJavelina, once desert dwellers, are increasingly venturing into Arizona neighborhoods due to urban expansion fragmenting their habitats. Ea...
Street dogs, state liability and the bite questionThe Supreme Court is considering compensation for dog-bite victims. States may be held liable for failing to protect residents. Experts emp...
PETA India writes to PMO, flags proposal to confine stray dogs for lifePETA India has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to reject proposals for lifelong animal confinement, advocating for humane and science-ba...
Sweet life? Leopards in UP’s sugarcane fields are turning ‘soft’ and ‘fatter’, refusing to return to the wild, say forest officersLeopards in western Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand are being deemed unfit for release due to their adaptation to sugarcane fields, leading t...
Stop blaming the dog — it’s the policy that bitesDelhi's civic body will launch a sterilisation and vaccination drive for street dogs. India reported many dog bite cases and rabies deaths ...
AI is making robots smarter. They’ll need boundariesRobots are already roaming factory and warehouse floors, and AI will make them smarter and more agile. As is usually the case with new tech...
Don't bark your head off about a 'stray dog menace', deal with it humanelyThe author's mother threatened to leave the house if she couldn't have a dog, and they now have two dogs, Sunny and Jinny. Sunny was found ...
A year of extremes: From mass migration to 'Barbie' hitting billions, 10 records set in 2023The number of people around the world displaced by conflict or humanitarian crises was already at a record high before the Israel-Gaza war ...
Migration, mega-fines and Barbie: records set in 2023India overtook China to become the world's most populous country in mid-2023, accounting for nearly 1.43 billion of Earth's eight billion h...
Rs 10,000 fine for violation, max two pets for 2bhk houses in Ghaziabad's new pet policyThe Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation (GMC) has implemented a comprehensive dog policy to address conflicts between humans and dogs in the ci...
Dogs should not suffer due to Darwinian inevitabilityFor many Indians, though, the pie dogs that populate our country have become animals that need to be kept away from human habitations, unle...
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...
74 tiger deaths since January drive home poaching, other threatsMadhya Pradesh fares the worst with 19 fatalities.
74 tiger deaths since January drive home poaching, other threatsPolice and wildlife authorities seized skins, bones, claws, skeletons, canines and paws of another 16 tigers during this period, taking the...
Violent politics in West Bengal disrupting law and orderThe districts of East Midnapore and Murshidabad are on top with 60 killings each, followed by North 24-Parganas with 56 mostly politically ...
India scrambles to save tigers from deadly virusIndia is scrambling to protect its beleaguered tiger population after several big cats tested positive for a virus common among dogs but de...
Vets to study virus turning tigers into maneatersBritain’s Wildlife Vets International (WVI) plans to study whether a virus common among Indian dogs was infecting tigers of the Sunderbans ...
- Tiger authority forms guidelines to deal with man-animal conflicts
The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has developed a standard operating procedure (SOP) to deal with emergency arising due to s...
Tiger, leopard may be killed if posing danger to humans: NTCATigers and leopards, accorded highest protection under the Wildlife Act, may now be killed with due permission from authorities if they pos...
66 tigers dead in 8 monthsStatistics collated from different parts of India by a prominent wildlife NGO show that between January 1 and August 19 this year, at least...