Tag: Indias

Traditional medicine, ‘black magic’ threat to southern India’s slender loris populace

The use of its body parts in traditional medicine and “black magic” have become a threat to the existence of slender loris, wildlife researchers have noted. The researchers made the conclusion based on the analysis of the injuries found on the creatures in Bengaluru rescue centers over 18 years. Among the 139 rescued slender lorises—nocturnal primates found in southern India—researchers …

‘Horrible’ weeks forward as India’s virus disaster worsens

India’s top health official, Rajesh Bhushan, refused to speculate last month as to why the authorities were not better prepared. But the cost is clear: people die from lack of oxygen in bottles and hospital beds, or because they couldn’t get a COVID-19 test. India’s official average of newly confirmed cases per day has increased from over 65,000 on April …

‘Horrible’ weeks forward as India’s virus disaster worsens

India’s top health official, Rajesh Bhushan, refused to speculate last month as to why the authorities were not better prepared. But the cost is clear: people die from lack of oxygen in bottles and hospital beds, or because they couldn’t get a COVID-19 test. India’s official average of newly confirmed cases per day has increased from over 65,000 on April …

Tightening the ban on a cow drugs can save India’s vultures

On October 8, 2020, eight white-backed vultures tagged with satellites were released from an aviary near the Pinjore Vulture Protection Center in northern Haryana. The project had been in the works for years. “We monitored vulture populations within 100 km of the aviary,” said Vibhu Prakash, deputy director of the Bombay Natural History Society, a conservation NGO. “We also monitored …