Category: Animal Welfare
The Zoological Society of London has received a record 2, 732 animals found In the River Thames. Many spotted seals, 444 porpoises, dolphins and 49 whales around London’s Canary Wharf. Especially seals were sighted upstream as far as Teddington and Hampton Court Palace. The Dolphins and the porpoises were spotted at Teddington lock, Kew Gardens…
The Supreme Court In India, on Tuesday 18th August, directed that all temples possessing elephants and using them during religious functions in Kerala would be registered with district committees set up under relevant rules for proper and effective control over them with respect to the pachyderms. ‘It will be the obligation of the state…
231 fossilised dinosaur eggs and a dinosaur skeleton have been seized from a house in China’s southern Guangdong Province. The Heyuan City Police raided the house on July 29 and seized the eggs, which date back to the Cretaceous Period according to Xinhua news agency. The skeleton was later identified as belonging to a…
July 16 marked the World Snakes Day, an appropriate occasion to learn more about the reptiles. World Snakes Day will be used to enable better understanding of snakes. Of around 290 more species of snakes found in the world, hardly less than 10 percent are venomous; Snakes have played a pivotal role in the…
The Catalan town of Badia del Valles will use three automatic dispensers to scatter the 10gm of Ovistop, a product made of corn seeds covered in Nicarbazin which acts as a contraceptive pill for pigeons. One pair of birds can produce 50 pigeons per year, and authorities in Badia del Valles installed the first dispenser…
Open wells in rural villages are becoming a death trap for wild elephants when they stray in search of food out of their natural habitat. A wild elephant died after it fell into a well near Pothundy in Nenmara, Kerala South India, on 21st June 2015. The jumbo fell into the well located on the…
Renowned, elephant veterinarian Jacob Cheeran said: ‘India’s first exclusive hospital for elephants will come up in Kerala. The hospital will have an in-patient treatment facility for 10 elephants at a time and will include the state-of-the-art laboratory facilities.’ Cheeran said the in-patient facility has become very essential as in the coming years, majority of 500…