India to create 8 new tiger sanctuaries
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Conservationists welcomed an Indian government plan to create eight new reserves to protect the country's dwindling tiger population, and called Wednesday for more action to prevent illegal trading in tiger parts.
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KAZIRANGA, India  - Fifty elephants in colorful  velvet robes and tinkly anklets marched into a forest in  northeast India on Saturday to launch a week-long festival  aimed at ending conflict between the animals and locals.
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Some 300 homeless dogs and cats, many left behind by owners who fled Lebanon during the Hezbollah-Israel war, will be heading to new sanctuaries in the United States for adoption, an animal rights activist said Friday.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said yesterday that it will review eight endangered species decisions that were "inappropriately influenced" by a political appointee of the Interior Department, throwing a lifeline to 18 species that scientists had deemed to be in need of protection.
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India plans to initiate an assessment of the damage caused by the tsunami to the pristine coral reefs of the Andaman and Nicobar islands.
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India's out-sourcing capital Bangalore is to get an $87m (Â£48m) new toll motorway in a fresh bid to tackle congestion.
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India on Tuesday opened a national wildlife crime prevention bureau aimed at intensifying a difficult fight against the poaching of tigers and other endangered species, officials said.
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By JAMES MINTON  The Nature Conservancy of Louisiana recently signed a purchase agreement that will add approximately 850 acres to the Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge in West Feliciana Parish.
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BHARATPUR, India  - For years, tourists have come to India's Keoladeo Ghana National Park to gaze at shimmering, bird-flocked wetlands stretching to the horizon.
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There is a need for substantial increase in both public and private investments if India has to achieve the projected 8 percent growth rate in the coming years, said an Indian industry study released on Sunday.
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The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Wednesday announced the discovery of 11 new animal and plant species in a remote area of central Vietnam.
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The tiger population of India will vanish within a handful of years, and governments in India and China have not done enough to stem the rapid decline, environmentalists warned on Wednesday.
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Infosys and Microsoft plan to invest $8 million in a new venture; Microsoft will hire hundreds more programmers in India.
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The Indian government plans to set up a series of orphanages to raise unwanted baby girls in a bid to halt the widespread practice of aborting female fetuses, according to a senior government official.
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An "elephant corridor" linking two forest reserves is being opened in southern India, giving the endangered animals unrestricted movement to feed and breed in the region, officials say.
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KOLKATA, India  - Bird flu spread to two new districts in an eastern Indian state, officials confirmed on Saturday, as veterinary staff struggled to cull thousands of birds in the face of resistance from farmers.
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Dozens of new species of animals and  plants including a catfish with protruding teeth and a tree  frog with striking bright green eyes have been found in the  past year in the forests of Borneo, a WWF report said on  Tuesday.