NAGPUR: An international course organised by Satpuda Foundation in collaboration with Amravati University, USA based Environment Education and Conservation Global (EECG), Wildlife wing of Maharashtra ...More

Even as avian visitors throng Chilika lagoon in thousands, hunting of the migratory birds has reared its ugly head. The wildlife authorities on Sunday detected the first case of poaching and arrested ...More

JORHAT: An adult Royal Bengal Tiger was found dead in Kaziranga National Park on Sunday. Divisional forest officer (Kaziranga) S K Seal Sharma said the carcass of the big cat was found near the Naromo ...More

The Central and State governments have sanctioned `2 crore for the newly-created Sathyamangalam tiger sanctuary. Of the total amount, official expect the release of Rs 1.4 crore as a first instalment ...More

MUMBAI: Forest officials arrested an alleged poacher at Tungareshwar national park on Saturday afternoon. The accused, Ramesh Sikurghata, was produced before a magistrate court in Vasai on Sunday and ...More

NAGPUR: The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) decision to allow capture of 20 forest owlets in east and west Melghat divisions outside Melghat Tiger Reserve (MTR) has come in for sharp critic ...More

KANPUR: The wildlife poachers in the region have started recruiting women to use them as carriers and hunters, if recent incidents of wildlife offences are any indication. The Railway Protection Fo ...More

Ten people have been attacked in the Bandipur-Nagarahole range since 2006 Three men were killed in separate attacks by tigers between Wednesday and Saturday in Karnataka– a State known for a succe ...More

MYSORE: Victims falling prey to tigers rose to three on Saturday with a tribal killed by a big cat. What is worrying is unlike the two attacks in Bandipur tiger reserve, this time the tiger from Na ...More

International police organisation Interpol said Friday it seized more than 240 kg of ivory and 856 timber logs and arrested 660 suspects during a month-long coordinated operation across southern and e ...More

Kolkata: India is planning a new tiger sanctuary inside the world’s largest mangrove forest after a previously undiscovered group of the endangered beasts was discovered, say wildlife officials. The ...More

As shrill buzz of the engine of a motorboat belonging to the forest and wildlife department grew louder, a small flock of birds belonging to the Cormorant family, floating quietly on water raised thei ...More

RAMANATHAPURAM: Wildlife officials at the Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park (GoMMNP) are coming out with a turtle conservation plan to protect turtle species and their nesting sites in the coastal r ...More

BHUBANESWAR: More than 25,000 migratory birds from Siberia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Himalayan regions have arrived in the Bhitarkanika National Park in Odisha's Kendrapara district, an official sa ...More

More than 25,000 migratory birds from Siberia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Himalayan regions have arrived in the Bhitarkanika National Park in Odisha's Kendrapara district, an official said Friday. T ...More

All is not well at the Kaziranga National Park. If the current situation at the park does not improve at all, the UNESCO may withdraw the World Heritage Site title which it enjoys now. “The World ...More

NAGPUR: In a major development that could expose more poaching incidents, Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) officials arrested wanted tiger skin trader Dalbir from Samalakha village in Panipat dist ...More

One of the world’s largest exercise to enumerate the big cats is under way in India under the supervision of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA). However, the methods of assessment have ...More

JAISALMER: The state forest department busted a sensational case of cruel hunting of spiny tailed lizards, who are on the verge of extinction, by catching three poachers and recovering 38 rare speci ...More

A female sub-adult elephant trapped under a fallen tree in the Thekkady forest is set free A team of Forest Department officials on Wednesday tracked a female sub-adult elephant as it rejoined its h ...More