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20 critically endangered vultures bred in captivity ready for release in tiger reserves

July 9, 20247 min

Twenty critically endangered vultures—10 long-billed, the rest white-rumped—bred in captivity at a conservation facility in Haryana are set to be released into the wild at two tiger reserves in Maharashtra, the website News18.com reported. “This is the first such release of captive-bred, critically endangered vultures in Maharashtra,” the report quoted Kishor Rithe, director, Bombay Natural History Society, as saying. “We brought 20 birds from the Vulture Conservation Breeding and Research Centre at Pinjore, Haryana, early...

by Staff Reporter

Curious Tales Wild & Wonderful

Monkey, 3 birds, including Schedule 1 species, rescued from Pune slum

June 27, 20243 min

Four animals, including a monkey and a bird that is protected under Schedule 1 of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972, were rescued from a slum in Pune city of Maharashtra in a joint operation by the state’s Forest Department, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – India, and RESQ Charitable Trust, the website Newstrack reported. The monkey was chained, and the birds were kept in small cages nearby. The animals have been admitted...

by Preeti Srivastav

All About Pets Features Profiles

Hitesh Swali, straight-talking vet who believes in keeping it simple

June 17, 202417 min

There is no surprise when one meets a veterinarian who says he, or increasingly she, loves animals. Indeed, most people tend to think a veterinarian must necessarily love animals. But Hitesh Swali, well-known practitioner in Bombay’s western suburbs, is not that veterinarian. Dr Swali is a fan of Dr Asthana aka Maamu, the immensely popular character from Rajkumar Hirani’s superhit directorial debut film Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. (2003). Like Dr Asthana, he believes doctors must be...

by Staff Reporter

Curious Tales

Bombay High Court refuses to stay circular on animal sacrifice for Eid

June 16, 20248 min

The Bombay High Court last week refused to grant an interim stay on operation of a circular issued on May 29 by the Brihanmumbai Mahanagar Palika, or Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay, permitting animal sacrifice at 67 private mutton shops and 47 municipal markets on Eid-al-Adha or Bakri Eid on Monday, newspapers reported. A division bench of Justice M.S. Sonak and Justice Kamal R. Khata was on Thursday hearing a plea filed by the Jiv...

by Sandy Pawpaw

Curious Tales

Strange case of the ‘illegal’ zoo in the heart of Bombay

June 10, 20247 min

Did you know? A private ‘zoo’ spread over 2,000 square metres and holding exotic animals and reptiles operates in the heart of Bombay, near the historic Shivaji Park. The Marine Aqua Zoo, which has been in commercial operation since 2022, claims to be recognized by the Central Zoo Authority. The claim was debunked by The Indian Express newspaper which filed a request for information under the Right To Information Act with the Central Zoo Authority....

by Staff Reporter

All About Pets

Royal Canin opens its first pet food packaging plant in India

May 4, 20244 min

Pet food manufacturer Royal Canin opened Asia’s second largest fully operational packaging plant at Bhiwandi, about 50 km from Bombay, at an investment of ₹100 crore last week, the French company said in a press release. The state-of-the-art packaging centre, marking Royal Canin’s maiden venture in India, is equipped with automatic packing machines and essential utilities to convert bulk products into retail packs tailored to meet the requirements of Indian pet owners, the company said....

by Staff Reporter

Wild & Wonderful

Forest personnel rescue 2 adolescent wild dogs at Malvan

April 15, 20243 min

Personnel from Maharashtra’s forest department rescued a pair of adolescent wild dogs that had fallen into an open well in Malvan taluka of Sindhudurg district in the coastal Konkan region last week, a report in the newspaper Mumbai Tarun Bharat said. The two animals were found inside the well of local resident Mahendra Manjrekar at Mauje Chinder Bazaar Wadi in Malvan taluka on Thursday. At first glance, Manjrekar thought the animals were foxes and so...