GUWAHATI: The spate of rhino killings in the state has triggered protests and heated debate among civil societies and political parties on the gaps present in measures taken to protect these one-horne ...More

NAGPUR: Are the forest officials fed up with prolonged probe in tiger poaching cases? It seems so from the fact they are now no longer seeking custody of the accused. On Thursday, the investigating ...More

dna gets talking to the joint director of CBI, Mumbai, and Colaba-resident, Keshav Kumar, on his exceptional feat in a unique poaching case at Gir. It is said that the main job of a policeman is to s ...More

The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) says Grevy's zebra, a rare species, is in danger of becoming extinct if urgent measures are not taken to reverse the trend. Charles Musyoki, the KWS senior scientist ...More

RAMANATHAPURAM: Forest officials held a youth who was transporting a dugong poached for its meat in Periapattinam in Ramanathapuram district on Tuesday night. Keelakarai forest range office receive ...More

NAIROBI: The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) says Grevy's zebra, a rare species, is in danger of becoming extinct if urgent measures are not taken to reverse the trend. Charles Musyoki, the KWS senio ...More

RAMANATHAPURAM: Forest officials held a youth who was transporting a dugong poached for its meat in Periapattinam in Ramanathapuram district on Tuesday night. Keelakarai forest range office receive ...More

AHMEDABAD: The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has directed Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan to have state-level recovery plans for the Great Indian Bustard (GIB). Gujarat principal c ...More

BANGALORE: Counting tigers deep in the jungles is an exotic hobby, and certainly not just good fun. Studying pugmarks and tiger scats, sighting sambhars and nilgai, and analyzing vegetation is serious ...More

BANGALORE: A rare sighting of a black panther was reported from Dandeli-Anshi Tiger Reserve Safari on December 2 by a group of naturalists, including B B Mallesh, director of the reserve. According ...More

Bangalore: It’s raining technology support for forest and wildlife monitoring in Karnataka. In a bid to minimise incidents of elephant straying into human habitats, the state forest department offic ...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

The recent tiger attack which resulted in the death of a forest watcher attached to the Balle-Moorkal anti-poaching camp (APC) in Nagarahole Tiger Reserve has forced forest watchers to raise their voi ...More

Over 12 lakh migratory birds from Central Asia, Eastern Europe and Japan have flocked to Kashmir, giving a vibrant look to the wetlands and water bodies in the Valley. "Our conservative estimate is t ...More

SORSAN: Herds of blackbuck, a schedule one animal that has been classified as near threatened by IUCN since 2003, and chinkaras graze around in an open grass field. At a distance, near a pond, migrato ...More

Chennai: Bureaucracy and redtapism dog the state forest department, resulting in its staff not receiving the raincoats, shoes and torches sanctioned for them. What’s more, the recently regularised a ...More

With doubts being raised about an international illegal wildlife trade racket operating between India and some African countries, the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, Chennai, may issue advisory to enfo ...More

PUNE: A debate is brewing between researchers over the proposed study of the critically endangered forest owlet near Melghat tiger reserve. While a section of experts emphasized the importance of r ...More

In what appears to be a move fraught with peril, the Odisha Government has proposed to de-notify at least 159 sq km from Satkosia Gorge Sanctuary which forms a large part of the Satkosia Tiger Reserve ...More

PANAJI: Use of cable wire snares to trap wildlife on the Pilerne-Porvorim plateau and other areas is worrying animal lovers as the activity not only goes unnoticed in forest areas but its dimensions a ...More