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Better Ungulate Than Never
Indian camels celebrate high oil prices |
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06 May 2008 |
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| Posted at 10:22 AM on 06 May 2008 Rising oil prices have many Homo sapiens in a tizzy, but at least one species is celebrating high fuel costs: the camel. Finding it spendy to fuel their tractors, farmers in India are turning to ungulate power. "It's excellent for the camel population if the price of oil continues to go up because demand for camels will also go up," says Ilse Köhler-Rollefson of the League for Pastoral ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, India, news, oil, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Getting Hard to Carrion
Wild Asian vultures going the way of the dodo |
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30 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 1:24 PM on 30 Apr 2008 Wild Asian vultures are likely going to the way of the dodo, a new study says. The white-backed vulture population has plunged by nearly 99.9 percent in India since 1992, and two other vulture species have seen a drop of 97 percent, say researchers publishing in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. Researchers blame diclofenac, a drug given to livestock and ingested by the birds ... |
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| Topics: endangered species, health, India, news, scientific research, toxics, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Brash Monkey
Thousands of monkeys uprooted by sprawl move into New Delhi |
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14 Nov 2007 |
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| Posted at 3:17 PM on 14 Nov 2007 Last month, the deputy mayor of New Delhi fell from a terrace to his death while trying to fend off a gang of wild monkeys. This weekend, rampaging monkeys attacked up to 25 people in the Indian capital. While the scenes are tragic, it would be a stretch to call them unexpected: In the center of New Delhi, monkeys scamper through buildings, bathe in fountains, and frolic in parks and on gro ... |
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| Topics: India, news, placemaking, sprawl, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Mumbai-Bye, Birdie
India's vultures on verge of extinction thanks to cattle medication |
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28 Mar 2006 |
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| Mumbai-Bye, Birdie India's vultures on verge of extinction thanks to cattle medication India's once-abundant vulture population has plummeted an astonishing 97 percent in the past decade, and conservationists worldwide charge the Indian government with not acting quickly enough to save them. The culprit is diclofenac, a cheap painkiller used to treat sick cattle in South Asia; it poisons vultures when they scavenge meat off ... |
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| Topics: India, news, toxics, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Scratched Cat Fever
Tigers in dangerous decline in India |
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25 May 2005 |
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| Scratched Cat Fever Tigers in dangerous decline in India The accelerating disappearance of endangered Bengal tigers from India's 28 tiger reserves has Indian officials and charismatic-megafauna enthusiasts the world over in a tizzy. Poaching of the country's national animal has increased in recent years, as body parts ranging from pelts to, um, members have become valuable commodities in the Chinese medicinal trade. Though India's re ... |
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| Topics: India, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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