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Tiger which killed three Indian villagers ordered to be shot on sight
Source:Guardian UK By:Jason Burke, Delhi
Environmental officials in northern India have issued an order for a tiger that has attacked and killed three women to be shot on sight. A specialist team has been dispatched to track down the animal in the world-famous Corbett national park, a seven hour drive north of Delhi. There have been angry protests by local people at the gates of the park, an increasingly popular tourist destination, since the body of the tiger's most recent victim was found.
Devki Devi, 35, was attacked earlier this week when she and 12 other women went out to collect cattle fodder near their village, said Anil Baluni, the vice-chairman of the Uttarakhand forests and environment advisory committee. The others managed to get away. Such attacks are rare but regular occurrences in India where repeated drives to preserve the country's tiger population have failed to stem poaching and deaths from natural causes linked to pressure on the animals' habitat. The number of tigers in India is disputed, but is thought to be approximately 1,500, half of what it was 20 years ago. Some 150 live in or around the Corbett national park, which lies on plains at the foot of the Himalayas. The fact that the tiger, a female, killed two other women in separate incidents last month and appears to have eaten much of the body of its latest victim will have been important in convincing authorities to issue the order to use lethal force, said Samir Sinha, a former deputy director of the park... Click To View The Full Article NWHS NOTE: NWHS' newest Ally, WTI Wild Tiger Conservation, has projects concerning human-tiger conflict mitigation. Please visit their NWHS Ally page to learn more about their work in India, concerning this issue and other factors impacting wild tigers in India, and assist if possible. Click To View Wildlife Trust of India - Wild Tiger Conservation, at NWHS |
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State will challenge habitat designation for polar bears
Source:Alaska Journal of Commerce By:Tim Bradner
State officials notified Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Dec. 21 that the state intends to challenge the Interior Department's designation of 187,157 square miles of Alaskan Arctic onshore and offshore lands as critical polar bear habitat. The notification starts a 60 day process where Interior can withdraw its designation or make changes in the action, which was taken by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. If Salazar takes no action the state will proceed with its lawsuit in federal court, Gov. Sean Parnell said in a statement.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated polar bears as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The state contends that the Fish and Wildlife Service disregarded federal law by including geographical areas in critical habitat that have no physical or biological features essential to conservation of the bears, Parnell said. "We already have state and federal laws including the Marine Mammal Protection Act that provide strong conservation measures for polar bears. The polar bear is one of the most protected species in the world," the governor said. The state's concern is that additional regulations or consultations with agencies triggered by the expansive designation of habitat would increase costs of oil and gas development in the Arctic, Parnell said... Click Here To Read Entire Article At Source |
Group seeks wolf restoration
Source:Poughkeepsie Journal NY:Matthew Brown AP
BILLINGS, Mont. — An environmental group filed notice last week that it intends to sue the federal government to force adoption of a plan to recover gray wolves across the lower 48 states. The predators were poisoned and trapped to near-extermination in the United States in the past century. But they have bounced back in some wilderness areas in the past few decades. Biologists with the Arizona-based Center for Biological Diversity said they want to expand that recovery nationwide.
In the notice filed with the Interior Department, the group said it would sue within 60 days if the agency didn't start crafting a plan to expand wolf ranges. The Endangered Species Act requires the agency to be notified two months before a lawsuit is filed. Despite making gains in some areas since the species was first listed as endangered in 1974, the gray wolf remains limited to about 5 percent of its historical range... Click To Read The Entire Article |
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