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Author: Aparajita Ray

Aparajita Ray is a journalist with eight plus years of experience and worked with the Times of India and DNA. She has covered urban infrastructure and mobility, women centric issues and tourism sectors and has to her credits many expose and news campaigns. Food, family and friends inspire her. She has fascination, along with her husband, for aquariums and love exploring the wild and capturing the nature in all its forms.

Southeast Asia continues to be the heart of the wildlife trade: TRAFFIC report claims

Posted on April 7, 2020April 7, 2020 by Aparajita Ray

China finally passed a law to ban illegal wildlife trade after COVID-19 spread from Wuhan wet markets, and the world is left fighting for one of the worst faced health catastrophes. But the wildlife trade is not really threatened with this ban. Here’s how: Of the 900 million pangolins trafficked in the last decade, almost…

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Traffic report finds 600,000 tonnes of Sharks and Rays caught annually

Posted on September 14, 2019September 14, 2019 by Aparajita Ray

Did you know that every year, an average of 600,000 sharks and ray fish were caught and traded for consumption? And that too by the world’s top 20 countries, and these catchers collectively account for 80 percent of the global catch averaged by year between 2007 and 2017. A TRAFFIC study released Tuesday has such…

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Tigers cannot be collaterals to development: experts

Posted on July 29, 2019July 29, 2019 by Aparajita Ray

No doubt India is home to about 70% of tigers in the world and tiger conservation in India is exemplary. Still the number of reports of tigers poached, involved in man-animal conflicts or turning into man-eaters is constant or perhaps increasing. Experts observe that tigers are not safe outside a national park and forest cover…

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It’s collar up for these animals

Posted on May 10, 2019May 10, 2019 by Aparajita Ray

Reflective animal collars are a boon for dogs, cattle and humans, too. Tauseef Ahmed saved the lives of 500 dogs in Mangaluru using them. And animal lovers from Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad have also saved lives, both animal and human, thanks to these collars In just two months, Tauseef Ahmed has been successful in saving…

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Leopards, wolves, hyenas co-exist with humans in west Maharashtra

Posted on May 4, 2019May 4, 2019 by Aparajita Ray

A new study debunks most believed theories of man-animal conflict in landscapes shared by carnivores and men, changes the conservation narrative. Believe it or not, but 57 % of leopards, 64 % of Indian wolves and 75 % of striped hyenas share space with people in western Maharashtra. And there is complete natural co-existence of…

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