Saturday 20 November 2010

Sorry Sariska



Sariska is a tiger reserve located in Alwar in Rajasthan. Once known for its palaces and tigers, poaching had become so rampant in the early 2000s that conservationists feared that all the tigers may have been killed. In 2005, journalist Jay Mazoomdar broke the news that all of Sariska's tigers had been wiped out. Several relocation measures have been undertaken recently and the population is growing slowly.

May be this is how India's tigers discipline their young, after all that has happened and has happened in Sariska.
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Thursday 11 November 2010

Desperate Measures-3


In spite of being banned the world over, poaching of elephants for ivory still continues to haunt these beautiful animals. The situation in Africa is getting so obstreperous that poacher often mow down herds of elephants together using sophisticated weaponry. Poachers in Africa operate in well-equipped gangs that even use helicopters to enter protected areas.

As Animal Planet quotes, "When the buying stops, the killing will too."
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Wednesday 10 November 2010

Oxpecker Pastime!


Oxpeckers are birds found in the African savanna. They share a symbiotic association with animals such as rhinos and wild buffaloes. The oxpeckers are usually seen perched on the bodies of their hosts on which they feed on lice, ticks and insects. in this way, the oxpeckers get a free meal and the buffalo gets a free parasite extermination service .
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Sunday 7 November 2010

Pseudotoad



Often referred to as indicator species by wildlife experts and environmentalists, frogs and other amphibians are called so because they are the first ones to be affected in events of climate change, pollution and global warming. Because they live in two worlds and have thin, porous skins that they breathe through, they easily absorb toxic chemicals, radiation and diseases. Frogs have suffered the most disastrous impacts of climate chagne and pollution, and the world has lost several species to extinction recently.
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