Poachers get hunting chances as jungles are rendered inaccessible during rains. Every time when Rajasthan receives rich monsoon, it brings joy to the desert state. But, a good monsoon also trigge ...More

NAGPUR: The interrogation of nine poachers arrested in Pune for killing a tiger in Melghat has revealed that a woman member of the gang travelled 300 km from Melghat to Ramtek in Nagpur district with ...More

GUWAHATI, Aug 17 – The threat posed to mega species such as tiger, rhino and elephant by the multi-billion-dollar illegal trade in wildlife is well known, but not many would be aware that a number o ...More

Most people can recall headlines about Indian Wall lizards "poisoning" school mid-day meals. Housewives, too, live in dread of these ceiling spooks falling into boiling milk and ensuring the family ...More

Hunting of the finest birds such as Japanese quails and Edible-nest swiftlets would not be a crime soon. The government is considering removing these birds from the endangered list of the Wildlife Pr ...More

CHANDRAPUR: Forest officers arrested the fifth cop ArunBhasarkar, absconding for over a month in monitor lizard poaching case on Tuesday. He was remanded to four days of forest custody remand by the c ...More

The Maharashtra state forest department arrested nine persons, including two women, from Pune in connection with the sensational Melghat tiger poaching. Some of them are said to be dreaded tiger poa ...More

CHANDIGARH: He prefers to be addressed as NawabShafat Ali Khan of Hyderabad. He carries a modern-day cannon: a powerful, bolt-action .458 Magnum by American riflemakers Winchester. This weapon can s ...More

Describing Nagpur as "Tiger Gateway of India", a senior Congress MP from Maharashtra today asked the Centre to declare the city as "World Tiger Capital". "Vidarbha has 80 per cent of Maharashtra's ...More

NAGPUR: A team of Melghat forest officials netted nine tiger poachers from Pune in the wee hours of Sunday. Among those arrested were prize catch Luchi and veteran poacher Lupustan. Sources said a ...More

Even after death of 58 tigers in last five years, Madhya Pradesh was yet to form a special tiger protection force (STPF). Bhopal-based wildlife activist Ajay Dubey has said if a step in this directi ...More

GUWAHATI: Noted wildlife filmmaker SubbaiahNallamuthu on Monday said instead of blaming the government, the onus should be laid on individual efforts towards protecting the tiger and spreading awarene ...More

GUWAHATI: Assam's ambitious Indian Rhino Vision (IRV) 2020 took a severe hit after a conservation volunteer engaged in the project was allegedly found to be involved in the poaching of a rhino at Ma ...More

Last month, a spectacled cobra was found coyly coiled in Rock Garden creator Nek Chand's home. Chand was terrorised. He feared cobras may not spare an old man like him. Fact is there have been no snak ...More

BHOPAL: As many as 58 tigers have died in the past five years due to poaching, territorial fights and old age in various big cat habitats in Madhya Pradesh. Of the total deaths reported, nine were ...More

BHOPAL: As many as 58 tigers have died in the past five years due to poaching, territorial fights and old age in various big cat habitats in Madhya Pradesh. Of the total deaths reported, nine we ...More

AHMEDABAD: On the occasion of World Lion Day (August 10), a Mumbai-based non-governmental organization, Empower Foundation, has written to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) for ...More

BEIJING: The number of black snub-nosed monkeys, an endangered species, has increased from 2,000 to over 3,000 since the 1990s, Chinese scientists announced. The monkeys, known in China as Yunnan g ...More

NAGPUR: In 2006, 1,114 tigers roamed the country's forests. In 2010, that number rose to 1,706. Come 2014, will Waghpurians and other tiger lovers across the country have a reason to rejoice? Or will ...More

NAGPUR: Judicial magistrate first class RB Raja on Wednesday rejected the bail application of three organized tiger poachers belonging to the Baheliya community. At the same time, the court granted ...More