Several animal rescue help lines have been set up, and rescue teams are using WhatsApp and social media for instant emergency respond. “We are getting over 100 calls a day on our helpline. The number of animals rescued have been moved to higher ground” Anand Shiva of Kerala Animal Rescue. In Thrissur alone, rescue workers…
Wildlife at risk https://www.facebook.com/savio.mendez/videos/10156737180094924/ Torrential rains, overflowing rivers, and landslides have resulted in deaths of 120 people in the Kerala state. Southern Railway and Kochi Metro have suspended their operations in flood-hit Kochi. The entire state of Kerala is on red alert with more rains expected till Saturday. Cochin Airport has been…
In Kottiyoor, Kerala, South India, several months waiting was over on Sunday 30th July 2018, out of 26 King cobra eggs left for hatching 23 hatched. According to Riyas Mangad, the leader of the Rapid Response Team the eggs were kept three months, in the proper environment for hatching of King Cobra. The Department of…
Mars the chocolate and pet food conglomerate, is acquiring AniCura, a pet care business, from Nordic Capital. This is the company’s second acquisition in Europe in just days. The deal values the European pet care business to £1.76bn (€2bn). Mars’ petcare division bought UK veterinary group Linnaeus from Sovereign Capital Partners another private equity firm…
Two tigers, two lions and a Jaguar have escaped from the privately owned Eifel Zoo, in Lunebach in western Germany. The animals were able to break out after flooding from a storm overnight. The 30-hectare (64-acre) Eifel Zoo, owned by the Wallpott family, is home to 400 animals of 60 species including Siberian tigers and…
Thrissur Pooram , an annual Hindu temple festival held at the Thekkinkadu Maidanam, adjacent to Vadakkumnatha temple at Thrissur, kerala, India. Pooram day is when the moon rises with the Pooram star in the Malayalam calendar month of Medam. Initially created by Raja Rama Varma, also known as Sakthan Thampuran, the Maharaja of Cochin…
The Rhino population rises by 12 in 3 years from only 366 in the late sixties to 2413 today at the Kaziranga National `Park in Assam, India, which holds about 70 per cent of one-horned rhinos of the world. “People literally have to ride on elephant backs and SUVs to count rhinos for the census…
Forest guards at the Rajaji Tiger Reserve in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand in India found a wild elephant trapped in one of the barrages on the Ganges river in the early hours of 15th March 2018, and have successfully saved from drowning. Quick thinking made them divert the water to another canal allowing the…