The high-density reserve covers 1,000 square kilometers

“Kaziranga is one of the highest density tiger habitats in the country and has a healthy breeding source population,” says a report released on Monday. It has over 100 tigers, the estimate based on the annual monitoring carried out in 2009, 2010 and 2011 using the camera trap method.

The woolly marvel A sheep, Dolly, was the first to be cloned 15 years ago. Since then, Snappy (dog), CC (cat) and Garima and Samrupra (buffaloes) have been cloned in South Korea, US and India. Cloning technology now can pre-determine the gender
Handmade procedure followed in Kashmir said to be cheaper, simpler and less time-consuming

It took two years to clone Noorie, but the next cloned Pashmina goat will take birth just six months later.

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has found holes in implementation of Haryana's ambitious livestock breeding policy for genetic upgradation of indigenous cattle.

The CAG has also found that the State is missing target of setting up Hi-Tech Commercial Dairies.

SIVASAGAR: The Panidihing Reserve Forest which spread over 33.9 Sq km in Demow Circle of Sivasagar District was illegally occupied by the encroachers like cow and buffalo rearers and fishermen since late 1970’s. After long reports of complaint for more than three decades by nature lovers and concerned citizens, the Sivasagar Forest Department personnel following the directives of the Divisional Forest Officer, Ranjan Das in association with Demow police officer, Mobid Ali and his team raided and evicted the unauthorized occupations at the reserve forest on Sunday.

A wildlife survey for the critically endangered Malabar Civet has led to the “first authenticated sighting” of an adult tigress near Athirumala, between Neyyar and Peppara wildlife reserves, almost 60 km northeast of the capital city.

P.K. Jayakumar Sharma, Wildlife Warden, Neyyar, said wildlife researcher A. Mathews Nixon Armstrong had on January 24 set up a camera trap deep inside the moist deciduous lowland forests of the Western Ghats to spot the elusive civet.

The Bangalore-based Project Directorate on Animal Disease Monitoring and Surveillance (PDADMAS) has developed a Web-based interactive software to predict livestock diseases two months in advance in the country.

PDADMAS functions under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and has been forecasting animal diseases.
Diseases

Former Tamil Nadu Governor and Union Agriculture Minister, Surjeet Singh Barnala today called upon 10 dairy scientists to ensure that the research in the dairy sector was transferred to farmers, which could help them increase the milk production and yield.

Inaugurating a two-day workshop of leading dairy scientists at the National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) here, he said India was the largest producer
of milk, yet an adequate quantity of milk was not available to all.

Cameroon and Chad have signed an accord to ramp up efforts to fight poachers who kill hundreds of elephants a year in a protected park on their common border, ministers from both nations said.

Both central African countries suffer from rampant poaching of elephants and other species for ivory headed mainly to Asian markets and for the bush meat trade. Observers say the rising wealth of east Asian countries has caused a spike in the price and demand for ivory in recent years.