Photo: Getty Images
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India Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of April

Every Sunday Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of Indian ecology, botany and zoology. Here are all of them for April 2019
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A Sloth Bear in Ranthambhore. Photo: Wikimedia CommonsThis week saw an adult sloth bear stray into Telangana's Jangaon town scaring locals. Also, a male tiger was found dead then in Meghamalai Hills, a sub-range of the Western Ghats, in Tamil Nadu’s Theni district. Click here to read more

A Striped Hyena. Photo: Getty ImagesDuring the second week, a study revealed that leopards, wolves and hyenas show great potential to share lands with humans outside protected areas and Odisha registered fifth unnatural leopard death in four months. Here’s more

Photo: Getty ImagesThis week witnessed an Orca pod sighting off Maharashtra’s Konkan coast and a train running over a tigress in Andhra Pradesh. Click here for more

A dugong feeding on the sea floor. Photo: Getty ImagesDuring the month's last week, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation was permitted to drill Tripura Gaur Sanctuary and a study revealed that Dugongs in the Gulf of Kutch were at risk of vanishing due to human activities. Read more

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