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Fighting in Nepal Threatens Rhino Population  -  Jun 13, 2006
NPR...by John Nielsen. The greater one-horned rhinoceros is native to Nepal. Poachers have decimated most of the rhino population that was captured and relocated ...

Experts to meet on rhino safety  -  Feb 6, 2010
Calcutta TelegraphGuwahati, Feb. 5: Experts from rhino range countries will converge at Kaziranga National Park next week to formulate a global action plan to ensure long ...

India enjoying success in increasing population of endangered rhinos  -  Jun 16, 2009
Channel News AsiaBy Channel NewsAsia's India Correspondent Damanjeet Kohli | Posted: 16 June 2009 1328 hrs. INDIA: The Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros is an endangered species ...

Discovery of calves raises hope for rare Javan rhino  -  Dec 25, 2008
HinduNew Delhi (IANS): The recent discovery of four calves of the rare Javan rhino in an Indonesian jungle has raised hope among conservationists trying to save ...

Jounior Observer | Sunday Observer.lk - Sri Lanka  -  Jun 28, 2009
Sunday ObserverThe World Wildlife Fund (WWF) recently declared the 10 animal species on the brink of extinction and the Junior Observer featured a graphic of them in the ...

PM - Rhino death renews debate about zoos  -  Aug 23, 2007
ABC Regional Online - ABC Regional OnlineMARK COLVIN: Revelations about the gruesome death of a rare rhinoceros at Sydney's Taronga Zoo have renewed the debate about keeping big animals in ...

Nepali paper blames Maoists for threat to wildlife  -  Jun 24, 2005
$2.95 - BBC Archive - NewsBankWhen the census takers were counting the greater one-horned rhinoceros in the jungles of Chitwan valley recently, it was not only the 170 big animals that ...

John Cleese to visit Dubbo for rhino program. 26/09/2006. ABC News …  -  Sep 26, 2006
ABC Regional Online - ABC Regional OnlineEnglish comedian and actor John Cleese will visit Dubbo next month for a fundraiser for the Western Plains Zoo. The Taronga Foundation is working to raise ...

NSW: Rhino was pregnant, emaciated and ulcerated when she died | …  -  Aug 23, 2007
Pay-Per-View - AAP General News - HighBeam ResearchNSW: Rhino was pregnant, emaciated and ulcerated when she died ... find AAP General News (Australia) articles. AAP General News (Australia) 08-23-2007 NSW: ...

Death of rhino not Taronga Zoo's fault  -  Aug 15, 2007
NEWS.com.auBy Saffron Howden, Environment Reporter. TARONGA Zoo staff have been cleared of any wrongdoing in the death of a pregnant rhinoceros, with the RSPCA ...

Mingma Norbu Sherpa; Pioneer In Conservation in the Himalayas  -  Sep 29, 2006
Washington PostBy Matt Schudel. Mingma Norbu Sherpa, 50, who grew up in the Himalayas near Mount Everest and became a leading voice for conservation in Nepal and Bhutan as ...

How green really is my valley?  -  Oct 4, 2009
HinduWe have not only tampered with the connections in the natural world, we have also lost the parts. But the key will remain in the human mind. ...

Elephants due next month  -  Oct 8, 2006
Sydney Morning HeraldTHE long journey from tropical Thailand to Sydney is almost over for five Asian elephants, which are set to arrive at their luxurious new home at Taronga ...

Rhinos to make a comeback at Manas  -  Mar 4, 2008
Daily News & AnalysisMANAS (Assam): The Manas National Park, a Unesco world heritage site, is all set to repopulate the greater one-horned rhinoceros seven years after poachers ...

Kaziranga turns 100 and celebrates the rhino's return from near...  -  Feb 14, 2005
OutlookAfter a few million years of chomping along the grasslands that stretched from Pakistan to Bengal, you can't blame the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros for ...

Elephant dies at Dubbo zoo  -  Jun 11, 2007
ABC Online - ABC OnlineKeepers at Western Plains Zoo at Dubbo, in western New South Wales, are mourning the death of a second animal in a week. ...

How green really is my valley?  -  Oct 3, 2009
The HinduCaption:There is no space left for animals to live peacefully any more... Photo: Christy Williams. There is something about coming home to Assam. ...

Zoo's death in the family  -  Jun 30, 2007
NEWS.com.auBy Michelle Cazzulino. ON a cold Sunday night earlier this month, Taronga Zoo's veterinary quarantine centre was open - the lights were blazing. ...

Why did the zoo animals have to die?  -  Jun 16, 2007
Sydney Morning HeraldFIFTEEN animals dead, all in the space of 24 months - and this week the list of losses at Taronga and Western Plains zoos grew a little longer. ...

A Grand Day Out: Chester Zoo  -  Jul 12, 2009
Daily MailBy Freddy Halliday. Continuing our occasional series on the British attractions that make for a Great Day Out, Freddy Halliday takes a peek at Chester Zoo, ...

Not enough room to roam  -  May 14, 2006
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Seattle Post IntelligencerBy JOE COPELAND. Near Woodland Park Zoo's closing one sunny afternoon, the families kept coming to see the elephants. Kids watched intently as 5-year-old ...

Mingma Norbu Sherpa, drove conservation in Nepal, Bhutan  -  Oct 2, 2006
Pay-Per-View - San Jose Mercury News - Factiva, from Dow JonesBy Matt Schudel. Mingma Norbu Sherpa, 50, who grew up in the Himalayas near Mount Everest and became a leading voice for conservation in Nepal and Bhutan as ...

rhinoceros (mammal) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia  -  Jun 15, 2008
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Adventure Travel in Nepal  -  Dec 7, 2005
BuzzleNepal's wildlife reserves and conservation areas boast a variety of unique animals, including the Royal Bengal Tiger and the Greater One Horned Rhinoceros. ...

Rhino Poaching in India - Armed Rebels May Be Involved  -  Jan 4, 2008
Wildlife ExtraJanuary 2008: Two rhinos, a mother and a calf, were barbarically attacked and killed this week in Kaziranga National Park. The mother had her horn removed ...

Rhinos translocated and released in Manas National Park - Rhinos …  -  Sep 12, 2008
Wildlife ExtraAnother dead white rhino has been found, with its horn missing, in the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi game reserve. This means that an unprecedented 14 rhinos killed by ...

The lady & her tigers  -  Dec 29, 2005
Pay-Per-View - Business Line - Factiva, from Dow JonesULLAS Karanth, in his book A View from the Machan, describes a naturalist as "someone who loves to observe wild creatures, never tiring of it" and ...

Kaziranga facing serious poaching pressures  -  Jul 23, 2009
E-Pao.net...home to the largest population of the critically endangered Greater one horned rhinoceros, is facing serious poaching pressures, as high prices in the ...

Tehelka - India's Independent Weekly News Magazine  -  Oct 17, 2008
TehelkaMonsoons mean sleepless nights for the veterinarian couple Phulmoni Gogoi and her husband Prasanta Boro. Night-patrolling National Highway-37, attending to ...

The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Northeast | Letters  -  Nov 14, 2008
Calcutta TelegraphThe greater one-horned rhinoceros still faces extinction given rampant poaching. So the decision of the International Union for Conservation of Nature ...

Calls for rhino death details to be made public. 07/06/2007. ABC News...  -  Jul 6, 2007
ABC Regional Online - ABC Regional OnlineThere are calls for information to be released about the death of an endangered greater one-horned rhinoceros at Sydney's Taronga Zoo on Monday. ...

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Nepal press selection list 31 May 07  -  May 31, 2007
$2.95 - BBC Archive - NewsBank1. A blind Irishman climbs the world's most difficult glaciers and rocky mountain slopes to win the Tenzing-Hillary Everest marathon race. ...

A Grand Day Out: Chester Zoo  -  ‎Jul 13, 2009‎
Daily MailWhat's more, the zoo is home to the endangered Komodo Dragon, the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros and the Spectacled Bear (the second smallest bear in the

2008 IUCN Red List surprise: Greater one-horned rhinos 'not ...  -  Oct 28, 2008
Media For Freedom,The greater one-horned rhinoceros is no longer 'endangered', according to the 2008 IUCN Red List update. This, despite the fact that a single epidemic could

We’ve got mail  -  Nov 13, 2008
Calcutta Telegraph,The greater one-horned rhinoceros still faces extinction given rampant poaching. So the decision of the International Union for Conservation of Nature

Indian news media more concerned about rave party arrests than ...  -  Oct 30, 2008
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung),Trust of India (WTI) on October 22 about downgrading of the greater one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) from ‘endangered' to ‘vulnerable'.

Rhino Poaching in India - Armed Rebels May Be Involved  -  Feb 1, 2008
Wildlife Extra,Greater one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) poaching showed a drastic increase in 2007 when about 20 were killed in Kaziranga National Park,

Land of a thousand contrasts  -  Nov 23, 2007
South Asian News for Canadian Audience,Also a World Heritage site in Assam, Manas’ swamps and tall thickets of elephant grass make it an ideal home for the greater one horned rhinoceros - and

Death of rhino not Taronga Zoo's fault  -  Aug 14, 2007
Daily Telegraph,Brought to Australia from San Diego last year as part of an international breeding program, Kua - a greater one-horned rhinoceros - died from a blockage in

Zoos cleared of cruelty  -  Aug 14, 2007
Sydney Morning Herald,The investigation was ordered in June, after the deaths of a greater one-horned rhinoceros and a female African elephant. The RSPCA's chief inspector,



Mingma Norbu Sherpa; Pioneer In Conservation in the Himalayas  Sep 29, 2006
Among other projects, he led efforts to protect endangered wildlife, including the Bengal tiger and the greater one-horned rhinoceros. ... - Washington Post,

John Cleese to visit Dubbo for rhino program  Sep 25, 2006
The Taronga Foundation is working to raise $200,000 towards the cost of expanding facilities to begin a breeding program for the greater one-horned rhinoceros. ... - ABC Regional Online, [an error occurred while processing this directive]


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