A network of informers is being planned by the West Bengal forest department to keep a tab on poachers, who recently killed a rhinoceros at the Jaldapara reserve in Jalpaiguri district.
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18-Oct-09 8:00 AM
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A man looking for boxes in a trash bin found the bottom jaw from a stolen rhinoceros skull at about 6:30 p.m. Thursday, an Albany Police Department official said.
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17-Oct-09 1:00 PM
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A rhinoceros at the Pittsburgh Zoo smashed the tip of a keeper's thumb as she hand-fed it treats yesterday.
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17-Oct-09 1:00 PM
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Carcass of a female rhinoceros without its horn was found in Kaziranga National Park in Assam today, park officials said.
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17-Oct-09 8:00 AM
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HE'S been a long while coming, but here's not-so-little Zamba making his BIG public entrance yesterday - as the first white rhino born in the UK through artificial insemination.
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17-Oct-09 8:00 AM
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A wild weed, Mikania Micrantha, is posing a serious threat to unique eco system and biodiversity of Chitwan National Park (CNP), which is included in the World Natural heritage site by UNESCO.
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16-Oct-09 1:00 PM
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Dudley, a 42-year-old white rhino, passed away at the Little Rock Zoo this morning in the quiet and comfort of his barn.
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16-Oct-09 1:00 PM
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14-Oct-09 8:08 AM
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While poachers' guns were being trained on a rhino in Jaldapara, senior forest officers charged with protecting the wildlife in this sanctuary known for its biodiversity were holidaying this festive season.
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12-Oct-09 9:00 PM
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Conservation biologists are setting their minimum population size targets too low to prevent extinction.
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12-Oct-09 1:00 PM
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A bull rhino that had possibly been shot by poachers fell into the Torsha river in Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary and drowned on Saturday morning. Another rhino carcass — that of a female — was found deep inside the forest a few hours later.
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11-Oct-09 9:00 PM
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A fierce turf war is raging among rhinos in the Dudhwa National Park.
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10-Oct-09 8:00 PM
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Forest officials have been able to locate the rhinoceros found missing from the Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary near Siltorsha river in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district.
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10-Oct-09 8:00 PM
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The Vietnamese are getting into the rhino killing business by exploiting loopholes in South African trophy hunting laws. Most notable is the incident involving Dwesa Nature Reserve
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8-Oct-09 8:00 PM
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A GROUP of students from the Univesity of Chester have been helping to safeguard the future the Natterjack toad at Talacre beach. Today we look at 10 of the world's most endangered animals.
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8-Oct-09 8:00 PM
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An endangered one-horned rhino and a tiger have been found dead in the Kaziranga national park in north-east India, officials say.
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8-Oct-09 2:00 PM
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South Africa is witnessing a massive surge in rhino poaching, an activity blamed on criminal syndicates striving to meet an "insatiable appetite" for rhinoceros horn in east Asia.
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7-Oct-09 2:00 PM
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A combination of ancient Chinese belief and modern financial speculation help to explain why rhinoceros populations are coming under renewed pressure from poachers.
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7-Oct-09 2:00 PM
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A carcass of a rhino without its horn was found at Pachim Nimali camp under Bagari Range under Kaziranga National Park today.
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7-Oct-09 2:00 PM
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Hope shines for rhinoceros in the state. Finally, the forest department has decided to start the second phase of the rhino rehabilitation
programme. The project is expected to take off soon. The last of the rhinoceros are housed in Dudhwa national park in UP.
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