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“I’ve never seen one,” says Sandeep, a 51-year-old Mumbai resident who has just clambered into the back of the open-top jeep in which I sit, parked outside the entrance of Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve. He shakes his head mournfully. This is not what I wanted to hear. Even in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, at 6am in February it’s surprisingly frosty. I’m wrapped in a blanket and clutching a hot water bottle, despite six layers of clothing. Steam clouds from my lungs as I reply, asking him if this is, then, his first tiger safari. His eyebrows make a valiant dash for a receding hairline: “I used to come here on safari with my family all the time when I was a child, I’ve visited Tadoba 20 times or more,” he says as my hopes begin to nosedive. “It is my life’s ambition to see a wild tiger!” The Scottish SPCA is appealing for information after a Bengal-type cat was found in a poor condition in Larkhall. Scotland’s animal welfare charity was alerted to the incident after a member of the public found the cat on Mossgiel Lane on July 26. The "distinctive" looking feline, which is being cared full grown bengal cat
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open plains and dense bush of Bardiya, the largest and most undisturbed national park in Nepal's Terai region. "Being assigned to tiger protection duties is an honour. It's a privilege to be part of something that is really big," Capt Ayush says as he glances around through the thick forest. Nepal's zero-poaching approach has worked to protect the tigers. The military units support the national park teams. And in buffer zones next to the park, community anti-poaching units monitor nature corridors that allow tigers to roam safely. One such strip of land, the Khata corridor, links Bardiya National Park with the Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary across the border in India. Map of the forest corridor But the return of the tigers has created life-threatening challenges for people on the border of the park. "The community lives in terror," says Manoj Gutam, an eco-business operator and conservationist. "The common area that tigers, prey species and humans share is so tight. There's a price the community has paid for the world to rejoice in Nepal doubling its tiger numbers." In the past 12 months, 16 people have been killed by tigers in Nepal. In the previous five years, a combined total of 10.
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leopard. Her brother Nabin Tharu was a few metres away from her when it happened. "I wanted to take her body off the road but the police were beating people," he says. "My sister did nothing wrong. Is demanding security wrong? Is demanding safety wrong?" 18-year-old Nabina Chaudhary was shot by the police The Nepalese government has promised Nabin's family $16,000 (£13,000) in compensation and has said they will build a statue of her describing her as a martyr. But the family are demanding a full investigation. In an agreement signed with the local community after the unrest, authorities have vowed to look into building more fences and walls in an attempt to divide humans and wildlife. In Nepal, when a tiger kills a human, the animal is tracked down and taken into captivity. There are currently seven so-called man-eating tigers behind bars. "I would say tiger protection is our responsibility, at the same time protection of people is our duty," says Capt Ayush Jung Bahadur Rana as he heads back to base. "A greater number of tigers and a greater number of people, [means] definitely there's going to be conflict. It's going to be challenging to maintain peace between.
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A bunch of trafficking survivors told a panel how they faced discrimination from within their own community after being rescued.
Threats from traffickers or their associates are a regular affair, the survivors said.
The panel comprised Sudeshna Roy, special consultant, West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights; Madhumita Halder, consultant, prevention of trafficking, department of women and child development and social welfare; Kakali Ghosh Kundu, the inspector in charge of Baruipur women's police station and anti-human trafficking unit; Sarfaraz Ahmed Khan, professor at NUJS, Calcutta and Susovan Si, head of eastern region of Childline India Foundation.
The session, organised by an NGO called World Vision India, began with the sharing of the findings of a survey of 80 trafficking survivors, recently done by the NGO.
Snippets from the session
Stigma
Eight girls were rescued from the clutch of traffickers in Bihar in 2020. Some of them were at Tuesday’s programme.
A majority of them were minors and were lured with the prospect of a better life.
The father of one of the girls deserted the family when she was in Class X. Abject poverty prompted her to look for work. An “aunty” offered her a job.
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The first is from the veterans. The second is from the youngsters. The third is from the guys who will either barely make the team or get cut. The fourth is from assistant head coach/running backs coach Duce Staley, who’s a maniac, but still is only, like, the third- or fourth-craziest personality on the team. More on him in a minute, because by the end of the episode, he’ll be chewing out players for farting in the film room. Liev Schreiber narrates, as ever: “Training camp is a fresh start. And few teams need one more than the Jacksonville Jaguars.” OK, that’s a lie. He said “Detroit Lions.” The Jags were the league’s worst team last year, but hey, since they were founded in 1993, they’ve won seven playoff games to the Lions’ zero. Detroit was the second-worst team last year, going 3-13-1, Campbell’s first season as coach. (Speaking as a lifelong Lions fan/idiot, I insist it wasn’t as bad as it looked!) We get a brief bio of Campbell, a former tight end who played a couple seasons for the Lions before working his way up the coaching ladder in Miami and New Orleans. He hired a bunch of.
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