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...they have no other cards to play." It could be up to 10 years before the first pregnant tigers are taken to a remote, enclosed area within the reserve to deliver the cubs that will eventually populate it. Although captive-bred, the mothers will teach their young how to hunt and kill prey. "This ability is hardwired," says Tilson. "They don't lose...
Most important, Baradar's arrest marks a turning point in the fraught cooperation between Washington and Islamabad on counterterrorism. Until now, Pakistan was reluctant to help the U.S. hunt down the Taliban's leadership, with whom it had close ties before 9/11. But the Taliban's militancy has spawned terrorism inside Pakistan, and the country's military and political leaders may have finally realized that they cannot get rid of homegrown terrorists without cracking down on the jihadis' Afghan brethren...
Operation Green Hunt is what the Indian government calls it: a codename for a massive operation to counter the menace of left-wing activity in certain parts of India. It is a name that combines hints of green—which evokes the verdant forests that will be the theater of action—with the malevolence of a hunt. This left-wing “extremism” is interchangeably called Naxalism and Maoism. Naxalism, for an insurrection that erupted in a village called Naxalbari in northeastern India in 1967. Maoism, for the guiding philosophies of the principal actor...
...response to this growing threat, the Indian government launched a counter-offensive christened Operation Green Hunt in 2009. However, a “hunt” in one form or another has been on for a while now. Since 2005, there has been an armed militia called Salwa Judum (“Purification Hunt” in the local language) in the state of Chattisgarh, comprised mostly of tribal people and blessed by the government that purported to take on the Naxalite menace. This has created a state of near civil war in that state, often pitting people within tribes...
...captivity. "Resident whales are the kind that live in a fixed place, like Puget Sound. Transients travel the world, eating dolphins, fish, other whales, basically anything that gets in their way." Such animals need to be particularly aggressive, both to establish territoriality when they're passing through and to hunt such a wide range of large prey. Those are traits that don't go away. (See the top 10 animal stories...