New nesting sites for crocodiles in Gahirmatha Wildlife Sanctuary

New nesting sites for crocodiles hasve been found in the Gahirmatha Wildlife Sanctuary. The number this year is 80 compared to last year's 75. These are near the Satabhaya beach. The numbers could be still more because the enumerators could not reach inaccessible regions like creeks and wetlands. The female of the species become violent when they see intruders.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 30 June 2017.

Bhitarkanika is home to 1,682 crocodiles and some of them are albino species. The enumerators were able to confirm sighting 1,671 that live along the water bodies of the sanctuary. Researchers were excited with the discovery of new nesting sites. The crocodile conservation program at Bhitarkanika had begun in 1975. Wildlife workers were ensuring that predators like snakes, jackals and dogs did not devour eggs of crocodiles.


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#witchdoctors #tanzania #albinos Tanzania has imposed ban on witchdoctors so as to prevent attacks on albinos – it seems there are over 33,000 such people in Tanzania and, as per reports, seventy of them have been killed in the past three years and, only 10 people have been convicted of murder.
Albino people are those who lack pigment in their skin and they have been targeted by witchdoctors for their body parts because the witchdoctors believe that body parts of albinos bring good luck and wealth.
Home Affairs Minister Mathias Chikawe has indicated that there would be a nationwide operation to "arrest them and take them to court" if they continued to work and the Tanzanian Albinism Society (TAS) has welcomed the ban.
Mr Chikawe has also said that necessary action to locate and prosecute witchdoctors would begin in two weeks' time in the northern areas of Mwanza, Geita, Shinyanga, Simiyu and Tabora because most of the attacks have taken place in these regions.
Incidentally, the ban is a result of the work of a special joint task force between police and the TAS because, the cases against the alleged attackers had, in some previous cases, collapsed due to the loss, mishandling or mislabeling of evidence.