Fishing boats on the Tamil Nadu coast are landing fewer adult devil rays than they did in the early 2010s, which matters because these animals produce roughly one pup every two to three years.
Orangutan
TRAFFIC says the five orangutans found abandoned in Odisha last month show that India plays a part in the illegal trade in these apes.
A mother elephant and her two calves were found dead in a paddy field in Salboni, West Bengal, on Sunday morning, electrocuted by a wire farmers had strung around their fields in one of the state’s most important elephant habitats.
Odisha’s police Special Task Force and the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau have opened a joint investigation into how five orphaned orangutans ended up abandoned in a forest near Balasore, after CCTV cameras picked up a black SUV near the rescue site the night before villagers found them.
Forest patrol teams in Odisha’s Balasore district found five orangutan babies in the Bichitrapur forest area, under Bhograi block, on 8 September.