For nature lovers, there is good news flying about these days: wildlife experts say that butterflies, seen most in the Capital during and after the rainy season, are increasing not just in numbers, bu ...More

Thiruvananthapuram: The forest department has formed a tiger cell in the Parambikulam Tiger Reserve for the implementation of the 10-year Tiger Conservation Plan (TCP). This is the first time a tiger ...More

NAGPUR: In a stunning revelation, tiger skin trader Sarju Bagdi alias Suraj Bhan (28) told TOI on Thursday that four gangs of poachers and traders were simultaneously operating in a 150km radius of Na ...More

NAGPUR: In a stunning revelation, tiger skin trader Sarju Bagdi alias Suraj Bhan (28) told TOI on Thursday that four gangs of poachers and traders were simultaneously operating in a 150km radius of Na ...More

RANCHI: In the wake of recent cases of rampages by elephants, experts claim urbanization is to be blamed for their occasional stray into residential areas. In the past few decades, successive govern ...More

US wildlife officials plan to crush more than 6 tons of ivory in Denver as part of a new push by the United States to combat illegal wildlife trafficking worldwide. The ivory was seized around ...More

NAGPUR: A local court extended the magisterial custody of 12 tiger poaching case accused till September 24 on Tuesday. Of the 12 accused, Parman and Soberam Sawalkar, both residents of Masondi in ...More

CAPE TOWN: In an effort to curb rhino poaching, the South African government is taking a different approach - selling them. The Kruger National Park (KNP) has sold 170 white rhinos to private ran ...More

Three persons, wanted in several cases of wild life poaching and smuggling in Maharashtra, were arrested and parts of a tiger carcass worth several crores of rupees in the international market were se ...More

The Crime Branch busted a gang of poachers, arresting three persons including Surajpal, who, according to police, has "reigned" wildlife poaching since the arrest of kingpin Sansar Chand in 2005 and h ...More

Three persons, wanted in several cases of wild life poaching and smuggling in Maharashtra, were arrested and parts of a tiger carcass worth several crores of rupees in the international market were se ...More

After a major operation against tiger and leopard skin and body parts traders, Delhi Police on Sunday claimed to have busted the ‘biggest gang of poachers and smugglers’ evading arrest for more th ...More

NEW DELHI: A gang of poachers—the country's largest—has been busted with the arrest of one Surajpal alias Chacha (65) and Surajbhan alias Sarju. Surajpal is believed to have the strongest network ...More

GUWAHATI: Kaziranga National Park suffered another setback on Saturday after a rhino was "accidentally" killed by a bullet fired by a forest guard to chase away the pachyderm in the Sotea area of So ...More

NAGPUR: In one of the biggest actions against tiger skin and body parts trader having international links, a joint team of the Maharashtra forest department, Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) and D ...More

Thiruvananthapuram: Poaching, environment pollution and inorganic farming are adversely affecting many bird species in the state, according to the list of the threatened birds published by the Kerala ...More

Jorhat, Sept. 4: The killing of rhinos continued at Kaziranga National Park with yet another falling prey to poachers’ bullets at the Bagori range last night. The carcass of the female rhino was re ...More

Ranchi, Sept. 4: An adult male tiger has sneaked out of the 1,129sqkm Palamau Tiger Reserve for the first time in its history and is on a catwalk along an unsafe 65km corridor, dotted with human habit ...More

The frayed tempers between the Gujarat and the Madhya Pradesh government along with the judicial activism on the issue of the translocation of the Asiatic lion from its last abode in the Gir forests t ...More

JORHAT/GUWAHATI: Barely five days after a rhino was killed on August 30, Kaziranga National Park lost another rhino to the poachers on Wednesday. The poachers killed the rhino in the Bagori forest ran ...More