| Hunting debate splits Kenya's wildlife community
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A controversial proposal to help save Kenya's wildlife by scrapping a 30-year ban on sport hunting split delegates at a conference in the east African nation on Thursday. Tens of thousands of tourists flock to Kenya each year to see lions, leopards, elephants, wildebeest and other wildlife roaming the parks and reserves. But animal numbers have fallen by at least two-thirds over the last three decades, and experts blame poaching plus human destruction of their habitats. Those backing sport hunting say it would preserve wildlife by encouraging better management and earning big money that could be ploughed back into conservation. It would also bring Kenya into line with neighbors Uganda and Tanzania, and with South Africa, which all profit from restricted hunting.
Akali leader hurt in road accident
CHANDIGARH: Former Punjab minister and Akali leader Jagjeet Singh Zira was injured along with his driver and another accomplice in a road accident on Tuesday.
The mishap took place at the dividing road of Sector 38/39 when the Akali leader was travelling in his Tata Safari, which accidentally collided with an Alto.
The Alto was being driven by one Narinder Singh, a resident of Sector 38. While Zira, his driver Gurdev Singh and Narinder suffered minor injuries, both vehicles were thoroughly damaged in the accident.
The local police rushed to the spot and provided medical treatment to the victims. The Sector 39 police said that later, a written compromise was reached between both parties, so no case was registered in this regard. .
Death of the ‘Big Things’ of Australia
What happened to Australia's megafauna? Diprotodons, giant kangaroos, marsupial lions, and other huge mammals roamed this continent until the middle of the last ice age. They lived alongside some spectacular birds and reptiles, including a goose bigger than an emu, giant horned land-turtles, and a goanna weighing 100kg. Now, Australian landscapes that have plenty of space and resources for big animals are strangely empty. Why these animals went extinct has been debated for over 150 years. In The Future Eaters Tim Flannery argued that hunting by people was the cause, but the idea was resisted because there was too little evidence that the extinctions followed closely on human arrival, and it seemed unbelievable that a sparse human population could have inflicted enough hunting to wipe out more than 50 species of large animals.
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