VETERINARY WILDLIFE SPECIALIST
Centre sets up high-level panel to oversee cheetah project
The Indian government has set up an 11-member steering committee to oversee the cheetah reintroduction programme and provide advice about the opening of the cheetah habitat for eco-tourism. This comes after the recent deaths of two cheetah cubs at the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh led to questions about the suitability of the habitat and measures taken to manage wildlife.
No real answers for Kuno cheetah deaths, just theories
To be fair, cheetah deaths were expected in the initial Project Cheetah study. In fact, the deaths are fewer than anticipated, and happily – there have been four cheetah births too. But there are questions.
Not possible for India to reintroduce Asian cheetah: South African expert
"So, it would be impossible for India to take cheetahs from Asia for this reintroduction because there are a few left. Maybe one day we might be able to save the Asiatic cheetah. It's a very different-looking cheetah, but this is a species that is essentially at the end of the run," he said.
India to get more than 100 cheetahs from South Africa
India was once home to the Asiatic cheetah but the animal was declared extinct there by 1952, primarily because of habitat loss and deaths at the hands of hunters seeking their distinctive spotted hides.
After battling Covid-19: How future virus research in humans as well as in animals must move in tandem
NIV, a premier institute under the Indian Council of Medical Research, was instrumental in isolating a Covid virus strain as early as March 9, 2020, making India the 5th nation — after China, Japan, Thailand and the US — to do so.
Botswana's mass elephant deaths caused by bacteria: Govt
More than 300 of the pachyderms have mysteriously died since March, with their intact tusks ruling out the hypothesis that they were killed by poachers.
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In a global first, World Bank funds a zoo in India
The World Bank has extended an assistance of $20 million for the reconstruction of Indira Gandhi Zoological Park in Visakhapatnam. This is the first time that the global lender is directly involved with a zoo, an official said. The zoo was devastated during cyclone Hudhud in 2014.
World Bank to extend $20 million for reconstructing Visakhapatnam's Indira Gandhi Zoological Park
According to an assessment report by the World Bank, almost 40 per cent of the trees of the complex were flattened and a larger number were damaged.
Chhattisgarh's 22 spotted deer didn't die due to anthrax: Report
With a report of Indian Veterinary Research Institute that the death of 22 spotted deer on January 16 at Kanan Pendari Zoo at Bilaspur wasn't due to anthrax as the report termed it as 'negative' on Saturday.
Needed: Rapid rescue teams for leopards
Experts say trained teams and a set of dos and don'ts are a must to save big cats that stray into towns & villages.
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