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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Dog being treated at Haibowal

A dog having itching problem is being provided with treatment at Haibowal. The dog when found was in bad condition and almost all his hair had fallen but have now started to recover after proper medication was provided to him. The dog will continue to remain under treatment till he fully recover..






Monday, November 29, 2010

Donkey treated..

A donkey having wound on his back was treated on the spot by our members near S.D.College here at Hoshiarpur...he was in pain and the wound was bleeding.



Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Feel the pain..


Some people who say that animals don't feel the pain suffered by another animal, ther's an example for you my friend.
The dog and the cat in the pic, both were treated at the same place, they gave company to each other at time of distress..The dog was suffering from an injury near his back leg and the cat was in a state of shock. they used to go by each other when one was in pain... love and affection is what they want...who say animals don't have feeling
They understand the suffering of one another so why can't we. Don't we feel pain or we just neglect these poor creatures who are in pain...Join the Movement for a more humane world and campaign against cruelty towards all of those who share the earth with us. Lay a helping hand and feel the happiness within.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Animals rescued by PFA,Hoshiarpur


Dog under treatment




Kitten being taken care at the house of one of our member.


Dog suffering from ill-treatment...

PFa till date have rescued 16 animals which including 3 reptiles, 2 bird, 3 bulls, 7 dogs, 1 cat...

Monday, October 18, 2010

Activity Report Aug-Oct

The following task and rescue have been perform by our unit From August till October:

Date

Task OR Rescue performed

Name of members involved


August 180-er 20, 2010een performed by our unit from August 1st ,2010

A dog injured in a road accident was provided with treatment. He had a wound on his back dog injured in a road accident was provied

Simranjit Singh


September 19,2010

A puppy that met with an accident was provided on the spot treatment but we were unable to save her as she had received fatal injuries..

Simranjit Singh and Pardeep Kumar


September 27,2010

A dog having a wound on his head was treated and properly medicated after consulting our vet.

Simranjit Singh, Gurpal Singh and Pankaj Sumit


September 30,2010

A snake was found badly injuered on a road, he was picked and placed under shade but he scrumbed to his injuries miniutes after.

Jatinder Singh


October 3,2010

A dog having a wound near his neck was treated and dressed at Mahilpur.

Jatinder Singh


October 11,2010

A cat under shock was treated and provided shelter at one of our member’s house. She has made it her permanent home

Rominder K. Vermani and Baljit Singh










October 17,2010

A cobra was rescued our team members and released in the wild in Garshankar.

Rominder Kumar Virmani


October 18,2010

A dog that sprained his hind leg after slipping from a mound was provided with treatment.

Simranjit Singh and Gurpal Saini







Dog treated having a maggot wound

A dog having a maggot wound on his head wad treated here at Hoshiarpur. The was provided with proper memdication. The treatment lasted for about two weeks. He now recovered from his injury.

Cobra Rescued

A cobra was rescued by our team memmber Rominder Kumar Virmani at Haibowal village and was later released in the wild..

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Activity Report of PFA Hoshiarpur

Following are the tasks performed by PFA Hoshiarpur till August 10,2010-:

Date

Task OR Rescue performed

April 8,2010

A calf having wounds between his hoofs was treated in Hoshiarpur city. Also his hoof of right hind leg had started to decay. The calf was given proper medicine after the consultation of a vet doctor.

April 10,2010

An injured bull was treated having wound on his hind leg. He was medicated and taken care for about two days outside the residence of Shri.Pardeep Kumar till he recovered from his injuries.

May 4,2010

PFA members raided a place in Garshankar. Information was received that snake charmers were plying in the area but on reaching the place we came to know that they have already evaded.

May 20,2010

A dog having itching problem was treated at Raurian village 9Km from here.

June 11,2010

A cobra was rescued from a school at Haibowal village and was released in the forest area.

June 16,2010

A raid was conducted at the residence of a snake charmer, who used to catch snakes to perform some pooja. A spectacled cobra was recovered from him who afterwards was released in the wild.

June 26,2010

PFA members got filled the water pond in Takhni Wildlife Sanctuary through water tankers, as the submersible motor has gone for repair.

July 27,2010

A dog was adopted by a PFA member Baljit Singh

August 09,2010

An injured bird was treated and taken care of at simran’s house. The bird had a cut on her right leg


Apart of the above mentioned two dogs, one male dog and another a female puppy were treated in the month of February but we were unable to save both, also a seriously injured bull died under treatment because the locals where he was found gave us the information about him four days later when he was breathing his last breath.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

India may hold key to tiger conservation,18 of world’s 42 core tiger sites traced to India

India could play a critical role in preventing the extinction of tigers in the times to come. A new report says that India is home to 18 of the world’s 42 core tiger sites, but doubling funding to $82 million a year to protect these sites is vital.

The study published in American journal PLoS Biology adds that tiger populations are so low in countries like Cambodia, China, Vietnam and North Korea that there is little chance of them recovering to sustainable levels. It recommends abandoning the protection of tigers in the wild and using funds for “ruthless priority setting” to focus on the 42 core sites. Outside of India, these sites are in Russia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Laos.

Needed: Focus, funds

The report compares tiger conservation with African rhino protection and declares: “Only where protection efforts either were focused on small to medium sized areas (like Kenya’s rhino sanctuaries) or were well financed (like Kruger National Park) did rhinos persist. The immediate priority must be to ensure that the last breeding populations are protected.”

The recommendation will be at the heart of the “tiger summit” in St. Petersburg scheduled for November when leaders of 13 countries come together to discuss how best to allocate resources. “It’s forcing hard decisions,” according to Simon Stuart, a co-author of the report. “There’s no way you can protect them across an entire landscape, because the costs are too high.”

Wild tiger numbers have fallen from more than 40,000 in the 1950s to 7,000 a decade ago and to less than 3,500 currently. According to the US-based Wildlife Conservation Society, there are more tigers in captivity in Texas than in the Asian wilderness.

Stuart and his fellow co-authors believe that well-meant but misguided early efforts by conservationists, which led to resources being spread too thinly, may have contributed to the continuing decline of wild tigers. “Beginning in the early 1970s, conservation initiatives helped establish a large number of tiger reserves, particularly in India, Nepal and, to a lesser extent, in Thailand, Indonesia and Russia,” says the report. “Probably the most successful of these, at least initially, was Project Tiger in India, which was launched in 1972 with the support of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

“With hindsight, it also became clear that protection and management of many reserves remained inadequate (the extirpation of tiger reserves in the Indian tiger reserves of Sariska reported in 2004, and Panna, reported in 2010, is illustrative).”

Although loss of habitat and over-hunting has played a role, poaching remains a major factor in the tigers’ decline. Chinese medicine values tiger parts so highly that a dead tiger can fetch thousands of dollars on the black market. Tiger eyes are highly prized as a cure for malaria and epilepsy, the tiger penis is used in a soup for virility and its crushed bones are used to treat ulcers, rheumatism and typhoid.

Sourece: The Tribune

India may hold key to tiger conservation,18 of world’s 42 core tiger sites traced to India

India could play a critical role in preventing the extinction of tigers in the times to come. A new report says that India is home to 18 of the world’s 42 core tiger sites, but doubling funding to $82 million a year to protect these sites is vital.

The study published in American journal PLoS Biology adds that tiger populations are so low in countries like Cambodia, China, Vietnam and North Korea that there is little chance of them recovering to sustainable levels. It recommends abandoning the protection of tigers in the wild and using funds for “ruthless priority setting” to focus on the 42 core sites. Outside of India, these sites are in Russia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Laos.

Needed: Focus, funds

The report compares tiger conservation with African rhino protection and declares: “Only where protection efforts either were focused on small to medium sized areas (like Kenya’s rhino sanctuaries) or were well financed (like Kruger National Park) did rhinos persist. The immediate priority must be to ensure that the last breeding populations are protected.”

The recommendation will be at the heart of the “tiger summit” in St. Petersburg scheduled for November when leaders of 13 countries come together to discuss how best to allocate resources. “It’s forcing hard decisions,” according to Simon Stuart, a co-author of the report. “There’s no way you can protect them across an entire landscape, because the costs are too high.”

Wild tiger numbers have fallen from more than 40,000 in the 1950s to 7,000 a decade ago and to less than 3,500 currently. According to the US-based Wildlife Conservation Society, there are more tigers in captivity in Texas than in the Asian wilderness.

Stuart and his fellow co-authors believe that well-meant but misguided early efforts by conservationists, which led to resources being spread too thinly, may have contributed to the continuing decline of wild tigers. “Beginning in the early 1970s, conservation initiatives helped establish a large number of tiger reserves, particularly in India, Nepal and, to a lesser extent, in Thailand, Indonesia and Russia,” says the report. “Probably the most successful of these, at least initially, was Project Tiger in India, which was launched in 1972 with the support of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

“With hindsight, it also became clear that protection and management of many reserves remained inadequate (the extirpation of tiger reserves in the Indian tiger reserves of Sariska reported in 2004, and Panna, reported in 2010, is illustrative).”

Although loss of habitat and over-hunting has played a role, poaching remains a major factor in the tigers’ decline. Chinese medicine values tiger parts so highly that a dead tiger can fetch thousands of dollars on the black market. Tiger eyes are highly prized as a cure for malaria and epilepsy, the tiger penis is used in a soup for virility and its crushed bones are used to treat ulcers, rheumatism and typhoid.

Sourece: The Tribune

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

On the verge of extinct

I couldn't believe it when I read it, but it's true: wild tigers are on the verge of becoming extinct in the wild - gone forever.

In the past 100 years, 97 percent of the world's wild tiger population has been wiped out, largely due to poaching, prey depletion, and habitat destruction. Worse yet, there are only 1,000 breeding females left.

It's hard to imagine a future without an animal as iconic as the tiger.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Two leopards stray into human habitation, captured

Two leopards strayed into human habitation on the outskirts of Shimla town at different locations on Thursday morning. While one was spotted at Poabo near Bharari, another entered a school campus at Mathauli village near Shoghi. Both were captured by the wildlife department without any injury to them or the public.

High drama prevailed over four hours as wildlife officials tried to capture the injured leopard that had strayed into a kitchen shed, constructed to cook mid-day meal at the school in Mathauli. At least 60 students were in their classes when the cook raised an alarm. The wildlife veterinary expert displayed presence of mind and took help of an animal cage, by locking himself inside it, to go near the kitchen shed to tranquilise the animal.

“The cage came to my rescue because as soon as the tranqiliser shot hit the leopard it jumped out of the kitchen shed and pounced directly onto the cage in an attempt to attack me and then in a jiffy vanished into the forest,” said Dr Sandeep Rattan. After a search of two hours, it was captured and brought to the Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre at Tutikandi, said Divisional Forest Officer, Wildlife, Nagesh Guleria.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Wildlife Sanctuaries- Their problems

Endangered by hunting and encroachments on their habitats, many spices of wildlife are on the verge of extinction. Our sanctuaries are not always fully equipped to meet the increasing onslaughter of poachers and hunters. But they have, to quite an extent, saved our many endangered species from extinction.
The Great Indian Bustard, one of the heaviest winged animals is essentially a ground bird. It is an easy target of hunters. The Karnataka government has initiated a project to protect the birds at a wildlife sanctuary.
Shortage of staff, weapons and equipments has hampered the anti-poaching operations. The rhino horn fetches a fabulous prize in the international market. Hence, it is a lucrative business for the villagers in the vicinity of Kaziranga National Park to guide a poacher to a rhino.
Loss of wintry habitat and hunting of the migratory birds are posing tremendous threat to the Siberian Cranes. Urgent measures are needed to protect the species. Their numbers have been steadily decreasing at Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary.
More or less, we have the infrastructure and the intelligence to protect certain endangered species. We should tap new effective methods in conserving these species before they too are wiped out like many others.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

World Bank to the aid of world's largest mangrove forest

The World Bank (WB) is helping Bangladesh carry out a series of studies to develop a program for sustainable development of the Sundarbans, the world's single largest mangrove forest in the country's south-western part. A comprehensive plan based on these studies would be developed to integrate prioritized interventions to address the region's main conservation and development challenges.

The studies will be drawn upon the main challenges of poverty reduction, climate change adaptation, and biodiversity conservation in the Sundarbans, a WB release was quoted as saying by national news agency BSS on Sunday.

The studies, expected to be completed by September 2011, will take full account of the distinction between protected areas (where resource extraction is not allowed) and surrounding inhabited areas for assessing the development challenges of the Sundarbans, and identifying alternative interventions to address them. Bangladesh and India share the world's largest mangrove forest Sundarbans and 62 percent of the Sundarbans falls in Bangladesh.

Due to its rich biodiversity and unique ecosystem, the ecological importance of Sundarban Reserve Forest is immense.

The Sundarbans is home to an estimated 425 species of wildlife, including 300 species of birds and 42 species of mammals, as well as the Royal Bengal Tiger.

Over 3.5 million people live in the Sundarbans Ecologically Critical Area, with no permanent settlement within the Sundarban Reserve Forest. Among them, about 1.2 million people directly depend on Sundarbans for their livelihoods.

The study will integrate the ecological dimension and importance of the Sundarbans' biodiversity while maintaining a careful distinction between protected and inhabited areas to ensure that conservation of the protected areas can be upheld.

Source: The Hindu

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Breaking new tiger grounds in Sariska



SARISKA (Alwar): The family of big cats is back in the Sariska Tiger Reserve (STR) after a couple of years' absence. A fifth tiger, a cute 30-month-old female, was brought there from the Ranthambhore National Park (RTN), also in Rajasthan, on a rainy Wednesday afternoon, marking the completion of the first phase of the species recovery plan prepared and being executed by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII). The first tiger was brought to Sariska on June 28, 2008.
Now it is a family of five — two males and three females — dwelling in the 881-sq.km. reserve, 190 km from the national capital on the Jaipur-Delhi highway.
Recovery plan
The reserve lost all the tigers, reportedly due to poaching, during 2004-05 and the recovery plan was chalked out after a visit by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Ranthambhore.
T 44, weighing 135 kg, darted into the thicket of Dhok trees the moment Rajasthan Minister for Forests and Environment Ramlal Jat lifted the heavy door of the cage, in which she was brought by an Indian Air Force helicopter. It was a twilight hour and the animal, awake from the stupor caused by sedation earlier, virtually sprang across, giving out a loud snort, and in five seconds — much to the disappointment of camerapersons — it was gone.
Her pace perhaps became accentuated as she slipped on wet mud before she sprang into the wild of a temporary enclosure. Every new tiger introduced into the park is made to stay in the enclosure until it gets fully acclimatised to the new terrain.
“She is a pretty looking female. Bahut sundar [very beautiful], said K. Shankar, one of the WII scientists who is entrusted with the species recovery plan. “She came sleeping all the way. She never woke up even once during the flight.”
Barring a male, which was brought by road on July 20, all tigers were flown from Ranthambhore by IAF helicopters. “She is radio-collared and daily data on her movements would be available through GPS and satellite,” said Mr. Shankar.
DNA done
T 44, daughter of T 30 also referred to as Jhailko female, was darted (for its safe capture) at Dhaoli Bhawri near Glaisagar in the Khandar range of the RTN around 11.30 AM and was brought to Sariska around 5.20 PM. As in the case of the previous tiger, a DNA analysis was done on the tigress before her selection in order to avoid any possible genetic incompatibility.
“She was separated from her mother at the age of four months and has not littered yet,” said B.S. Shekhawat, RNP Field Director, who accompanied her to Sariska. Now RNP has 39 tigers, besides cubs.
Part I mission over
At Sariska, “the first part of the mission is over. We now will wait for two years before introducing any new tiger,” said Rajesh Gopal, member-secretary, National Tiger Conservation Authority. “From now on every second year, two more tigers — one male and one female — could be reintroduced, if needed. If the present group breeds and multiplies, this may not be even needed.”
“This is a new beginning at Sariska for the family of cats. Now everything will be alright. I am sure their tribe will flourish,” said an optimistic Jat. He, along with Vaibah Gehlot, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's wildlife enthusiast-son, and forest officials including R.N. Mehrotra, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Rajasthan, was in the park to witness the re-birth of the cat family at Sariska.

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Spectacled Cobra rescued



A spectacled cobra was rescued by our PFA (People For Animals) Hoshiarpur Team last week.
Information was received on the morning of 22 June at around 7:30 am that a snake charmer was plying in Kulpur area about 50 Km from Hoshiarpur, who used to catch snakes and used to fool people by saying that by making the snake drink milk and enchanting mantras he can cure any disease. Reacting immediately to the call our six member team rushed to Kulpur village. The raid was conducted at about 9:00 am. On searching the place thoroughly we found a spectacled cobra, in a small basket tied in a cloth. He was suffering from dehydration and not reacting to any movement around. On enquiring about the condition, the charmer said that he had made him eat some kind of herbs that’s why he’s not reacting to any movement, he was sub conscious. The snake was confiscated and the charmer was just warned as this was the first time he was convicted. His details have been recorded in the register so, if he commits crime the second time proper legal action will be taken against him. The snake after being provided with water was released in the wild.