MUMBAI: The Navi Mumbai police have arrested three men for trying to sell four red sand boas, a rare species popularly known as the 'two-headed snake'. The accused were in the city to look for supe ...More

CHENNAI: The alarming rise in poaching of tigers has raised serious questions over the efficacy of conservation efforts aimed at preserving the big cats in the country. Sample this: eight cases of ti ...More

GUWAHATI, Sept 3 – Kaziranga National Park (KNP) has lost 84 sq km of land to erosion since 1904, even though its wildlife population and density has gone up manifold in recent years and the Forest de ...More

Guwahati: At a time Kaziranga National Park is bearing the brunt of rhino poaching, environmental activists have started demanding facilities for frontline staff deployed at the park. Union ministe ...More

Kaziranga National Park has lost about 84 sq. km. since 1904 due to erosion caused by the river Brahmaputra. The shrinkage in area coupled with the increase in its wildlife population has resulted in ...More

NEW DELHI: The government is all set to open 'creches' for lion cubs in its bid to arrest the decline in the population of the big cat in the country. Protection of the endangered species is a top ...More

PANAJI: Exotic varieties of deer, monitor lizards, wild boar, bears and even leopards and tigers are favourites for Goa's poachers who have freely trapped and shot wildlife in the state's five wildlif ...More

NEW DELHI: The government is all set to open 'creches' for lion cubs in its bid to arrest the decline in the population of the big cat in the country. Protection of the endangered species is a top ...More

Roadkill is causing numbers of rare species to drop, experts say only solution is to increase drivers' awareness. Road accidents are known to kill thousands of people all over India. However, exp ...More

Kathmandu: South Asian countries, including India, have endorsed a statute to develop an action plan for the next six years for working collaboratively to fight wildlife crimes. The Second Annual Meet ...More

BALASORE: Sukura Singh of Hatimunda village breaks down while describing the plight of his family. For the last three years during winter, elephants from Jharkhand have been rendering him and his fam ...More

Forest dept declines their request, says will burn them instead. With the Karnataka government agreeing to part with seized ivory tusks, which the Armed forces intend to display as trophies, military ...More

ALWAR: Good news continues to trickle out from Sariska Tiger Reserve in Alwar. Forest officials have reported spotting two more tiger cubs of tigress ST-10 on Friday. With these cubs, the total streng ...More

Aizawl: At least 22 persons have been arrested for poaching in Dampa Tiger Reserve in Mizoram over the last two years. This includes seven people from the Bru community and six from the Chakma communi ...More

AHMEDABAD: Contrary to popular belief that whale sharks found on Saurashtra coast in Gujarat are migrants from Australia, it has been documented that the largest known extant fish species are no expat ...More

The old Kumaoni stone hut where we lodged for our weekend stay had a cheerless history. It belonged to an old woman who lived there with her two buffaloes. Her source of sustenance was buffalo milk, ...More

Environment Minister of South Africa Edna Molewa on 12 August 2014 announced plan to curb illegal hunts of rhinos for their horn. Under the plan to save rhinos from the poachers, about 500 rhinos of K ...More

Uttarakhand police have arrested two persons and seized about 100 kg deer antlers from their possession from Rajpur road area under the Dehradun’s Kotwali police station late on Tuesday evening. The a ...More

Poachers slaughtering Africa’s elephants and rhinos with impunity are often shielded from the police by powerful connections, but a group of conservationists has turned to the anonymity of tip-offs to ...More

Aim is to curb poaching and wildlife crimes in 18 States: Javadekar Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday said a real-time monitoring of tiger reserv ...More