Pair of koalas enter nature reserve near Nadiya village to rest after a rough crossing of the Ganga river by the government
Wildlife authorities have said that only one of 12 pairs of koalas found washed up in the river on Monday has been found to be alive.
Rampant poaching has gripped India since the 1990s and with the river reaching its capacity of 200-250 million cubic metres, the situation in the country is on the rise.
Experts suggest that the high levels of illegal poaching and destruction of wildlife are because of the growing population of wild koalas in the Indian subcontinent. The wild population of them is estimated at around 16 million.
A conservation officer for the country's central government said that with the current poaching rate, the chances of a recovery for koalas are high.
'Koalas are in an especially precarious situation across India because of their lack of protection and conservation.
'We have seen that wildlife protection and control are far from being adequate and are failing koalas. It is only by doing a lot of hard work that we can hope to restore wild koalas to some extent in their natural habitat in the Indian subcontinent.
바카라온라인카지노 Blueberry growers seek new markets to avert severe drought
A man drives a truck carrying fresh strawberries on their way back to their farm. A tractor driver stands by on the farm as he removes them from the truck.
By Eric Wolff
Editor
A crop like strawberries can't be grown on farms because they're so sensitive to water, pesticides and pesticides that can kill healthy plants and kill crops if left untreated. But they grow even better when they're grown on a ranch.
And these days with the rising demand for strawberries at a time when prices have soared, farmers are looking for new markets to avoid the severe drought that's killing them. So far they've found it.
Over the past year or so, farm production in Utah has increased from about 100,000 head a year to more than 300,000, said Chris Anderson, an irrigation specialist for Utah Agriculture and Consumer Services.
The amount of rain that fell during the spring and summer months in 2013 has increased the average amount of rain the state would need over the next 40 years to keep the state's farm fields from dry, according to a report by the agricultural marketing division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Even without the drought, it's not hard to imagine that a lot more water would need to be used on farmland to maintain the average amount of water in the state's rivers. Those waterways would reach a maximum amount of water that could be absorbed and used without leaving any toxic residue.
The increase in water use on farms hasn't just been water use. Anderson said that by the year 2020, the amount of water use would reach a number that would represent half of the state's annual water allocation.
A 2015 article in the Deseret News showed that, since 2003, the population density of farms in Utah has increased from about 2,500 people to between 7,000 and 10,000 people, and the amount of water used from agriculture has increased between 4 and 11 percent each year.
"Farmers need more and more water to get that much growth," Anderson said. "It's a question of demand and supply."
In the latest state of their drought
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, one-third of U.S. counties have "severe" drought conditions. That means they are experiencing water shortages more severe than a county experiencing heavy rain this year or would experience during a major event such as a drought.
The Drought Monitor from the USDA, which is a joint project of the USDA and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, shows severe drought conditions that require state assistance to survive, including extreme drought, with or without crop yields.
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