Wildlife campaigners slam leopard death in Maharashtra

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‘We sent it to the Central National Herbarium in Howrah, West Bengal, and later National Botanical Research Institute in Lucknow, for testing and they confirmed our suspicions that it is kuth,’ Maranko said.

So, any import or export in the plant around the world will take place only with a CITES certificate. Also, the global Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has declared it a ‘critically endangered’ plant.

Tilottama Verma, chief of the WCCB, which functions under the ministry of environment, forest and climate change, said, ‘As kuth is now cultivated in a very small area in Himachal, but its demand in ayurveda, the Chinese and Tibetan systems of medicine, is increasing, it is being trafficked across countries.

“While the experience of professional team sports can be a valuable precedent for the IOC, it can only be if the keys of its success are fully embraced by the IOC and scaled to the level of the Games,” he said.

The Games were postponed last year due to the spread of the novel coronavirus and a recent spike in infections in Japan that triggered a state of emergency in some areas has fuelled speculation about whether they can be held this summer.

He was detained entering Thailand for a vacation and held “with a substantial number of other detainees… in very trying conditions”, Brendan Schwab, executive director of the World Players’ Association (WPA), told AFP

With its natural habitat – spread across Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, parts of Pakistan and China – constantly shrinking and its wild population almost gone, the Indian government has declared it a threatened plant variety.

Maharashtra forest officials, Hyderabadi shooter Nawab Shafath Ali Khan and Chalisgaon MLA Unmesh Patil have found themselves under fire from wildlife conservationists after a photo of them cheerfully posing alongside the ‘dangerous’ leopard they killed on Saturday night emerged.

Schwab also urged FIFA’s Bahraini senior vice-president Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa to “use the power of his office” to win Alaraibi’s release, warning that failure to do so would be “a fundamental breach of hi

Every major sports event this year has been postponed and seasons across all sports have been suspended, while the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games were moved to 2021, triggering another major calendar reshuffle for next year.

Officials of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), western region, identified the plant as the rare ‘Saussurea costus’, or ‘kuth’, which grows only at high altitudes of 8,000-12,000 feet in very cold climate.

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The WPA outlined a set of minimum requirements required of the IOC, which deals with international travel for athletes, testing measures, access to necessary treatment and whether traditional competition formats need to be altered.

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The female sub-adult cat is alleged to have mauled to death seven people in the last three to four months in Chalisgaon taluka near Nashik. Its last claimed victims were a boy and a 70-year-old woman. 

Dr Sarita wondered: ‘How could they allow taking selfies with the dead cat? It gives out a very wrong message, especially when a government forest department is involved.’  Even as per the Wildlife Protection Act, (WPA) 1972, display of hunted animal trophies is banned.

As alleged in some reports, he had been arrested by police in 1991-92 for supplying weapons to Maoists along the Andhra Pradesh-Odisha border. Sport hunter Khan has been a controversial figure with his penchant for wild animals and guns.

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