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Election 2016: Forest Lake candidates

Edit Pioneer Press 10 Oct 2016
Brian Hile What qualifies you to hold this position? Was candidate of City Council of Plymouth 2010, Mayor of Forest Lake 2012, 2014 What would your top priorities be if elected? Stop them from lay off police officers, firefighter, stop them from increase property taxes due to budget cut, there is other way the budget can be improved ... What would your top priorities be if elected? Forest Lake is in a transitional period....

Tigress trapped in plantation

Edit The Hindu 10 Oct 2016
The big cat, around six years old, was shifted to the office of the warden, nearly 2 km away. A team of veterinarians led by Forest Department surgeon Arun Zachariah examined the animal and administered first aid ... Forest ......

A slice of world habitats in the making

Edit The Hindu 10 Oct 2016
The vast African Savannah, big cats in the American forests, and Asiatic forests teeming with all manner of wildlife — visitors to the Natural History Museum on the museum and zoo premises here will soon be able too see miniatures of habitats from across the world ... The staid displays and decades-old display cases would give way to dioramas, ......

Call detail records enable forest officials in their hunt for poachers

Edit The Times of India 10 Oct 2016
Following the call detail records (CDRs) of a poacher the forest department had arrested some time ago, a team of forest officials managed to trap three poachers in their net at the Bandipur Tiger Reserve recently. The state government has authorised four senior forest officials to collect call records from telecom companies, carry out an analysis of the data and employ the same to track wildlife criminals....

Deer numbers drop, foresters worried

Edit The Times of India 10 Oct 2016
This was revealed when data collected during the summer census in May was collated by forest department in an internal exercise. Worried at the decline, the forest department has decided to re-conduct the census of sambhar and other ungulates in Gir forest ... Chief conservator of forest, Junagadh, R L Meena said, "This is an internal count of the department....

Section 144 to precede rescue of big cats now

Edit DNA India 10 Oct 2016
The Maharashtra forest department's message is understandable ... "When animals enter a village or a human habitation, forest staff try to trap it and hundreds of people turn up ... That is a major outcome," said a senior forest department official ... Many times, when the animals are released, people get scared and this leads to a stampede,"said a forest official ... Forest department want cops to help trace wildlife traffickers....

Experts warn of worst water crisis in Karnataka

Edit The Times of India 10 Oct 2016
"If the rainfall is scarce at the river source, next year, the capacity of the Shola forest to retain rainfall automatically reduces. If the rain water for storage has to reach from grasslands to Shola forest, then the rain from June-October has to be at its peak," he says, adding that since this is not the case now, the state will bear the consequences in the coming March, April and May ... Forest encroachment....

Sans nod, forest being cut for biodiversity park

Edit The Times of India 10 Oct 2016
In the last three days, forest officials have hacked vegetation on nearly seven acres of the 1,854 acres of reserve forest area, which is home to 250 bird species, only to make space for an artificial biodiversity park. Central India Birder Network (CIBN) has slammed the forest department’s move which could destroy natural habitat of hundreds of bird species, insects and reptiles ... 797, where the forest gardens are to come up....

A deer fawn rescued in Tsirang (MOAF - Ministry of Agriculture and Forests of Bhutan)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Oct 2016
MOAF - Ministry of Agriculture and Forests of Bhutan) ... Forest officials rescued a female deer fawn aged less than a year, from an unidentified predator which looked like a cat species at 4 PM on 7 October 2016. A group of forest officials were on patrolling in the Reserboo forest, Medrelgang gewog in Tsirang when they encountered a fawn being pursued by a predator, which ran away after seeing them....

Milk trader shoots self in car

Edit The Hindu 10 Oct 2016
. A 50-year-old milk trader allegedly committed suicide on Sunday by shooting himself in his car at a forested area of north-east Delhi’s Madanpur Khadar ... — PTI ... ....

Growing with inclusive finance

Edit China Daily 10 Oct 2016
He put the subsidiary of Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China on the fast track of growth, boosting its loans from 100 million yuan ($15 million) to 120 billion yuan in the past 11 years ... He saw potential for fast growth in microlending and consumer finance in China ... Business growth wasn't as fast as expected ... But that, Cho said, wasn't enough to make the industry fool-proof and growth-oriented....

Forest department launches probe into turtle trade post seizure at Dadar

Edit DNA India 10 Oct 2016
Forest department with the help of Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) has begun a major investigation into turtle trade after the Dadar Railway Protection Force (RPF) made a seizure of 80 turtles ... On close inspection the duo realised that there was some movement inside the bag and on opening it they found turtles, which were handed over to the Mumbai range forest department....

Desperate US, Japanese central bankers

Edit China Daily 10 Oct 2016
Lost in the debate over the efficacy of the new and powerful tools that central bankers have added to their arsenal is the harsh reality of anemic economic growth ... Stuck in what has been essentially a 1 percent growth trajectory for the last quarter-century, its economy has failed to respond to repeated efforts at extraordinary monetary stimulus....
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