One more wildlife sanctuary will dot Karnataka which already has 22 wildlife sanctuaries. The State government has officially declared a part of the Kollegala Range Forest as Male Mahadeshwara Wild ...More

The world can no longer ignore the reality that elephants may be gone within decades, unless something drastic happens to stop the slaughter. Crushing the criminal cartels in Africa is only half of th ...More

The battle over the translocation of lions from Gujarat to Madhya Pradesh is back in the Supreme Court. The Gujarat government on Tuesday moved a petition challenging the April 15 order which directed ...More

CHANDRAPUR: Foresters of Dhaba range have nabbed five persons for poaching and illegal possession of wild boar meat from Tohgaon village. Remains of the poached wild boar have been recovered from the ...More

AHMEDABAD: The battle over the translocation of lions from Gujarat to Madhya Pradesh is back in the Supreme Court. The Gujarat government on Tuesday moved a petition challenging the April 15 order whi ...More

COIMBATORE: Hardly two months after the Sathyamangalam wildlife sanctuary was classified as a tiger reserve by the Union environment ministry, three new roads being laid in the forest area has invited ...More

Jaipur: The state bird of Rajasthan, Great Indian Bustard (GIB), is an endangered bird, which is on the verge of extinction, even in its home state. In the last five months, two reports of bustard ...More

Poaching The World Migratory Bird Day, which was observed on May 11, has brought the focus back on the issue of bird poaching. Many migratory birds and resident species are killed for meat every year. ...More

In the last nine months alone, the Anti Poaching wing of the AP Forest Department have collected a sum of over Rs 5 lakh through a compound fee from the Hyderabad-Rangareddy districts alone. Compound ...More

As many as 200 Partridges were seized on Sunday by the anti-poaching squad which raided two places in Rangareddy district and Nalgonda town. Partridge, commonly known as Kanda Pitta in Telugu, is a pr ...More

The Maharashtra fisheries department is to be empowered shortly to act against fishermen who are found to be violating the ban on catching fish listed as protected species. Till now, the powers to ...More

The forest department officials on Saturday raided a private farm at Kalapathar and rescued 12 peafowl from captivity. The rescued birds, one of which was found to be sick, were shifted to the Nehru Z ...More

INDORE: Two-year-old leopard was found dead on Friday in Malpur Village of Alirajpur district. Forest department ruled out any poaching attempt. Post mortem has revealed that the leopard died due to s ...More

BHOPAL: At times when Gujarat is at loggerheads with Madhya Pradesh (MP) over translocation of lions venting worries of its safety from poachers here, comes a fresh evidence of poaching and trading of ...More

Rhinos, orangutans and tigers are on the brink of extinction. Last year 668 rhinos were poached in South Africa alone, rising from only 13 in 2007. Elephants are also increasingly being hunted and kil ...More

NAGPUR: With National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) reluctant to take wildlife protection measures while widening NH-6, a speeding vehicle knocked dead an adult sloth bear close to Shashikiran hil ...More

The three-year-old animal, who was rescued from a college in Odisha, had died on Monday. A female blackbuck with bullet injuries died in a veterinary hospital after it was rescued by forest personnel ...More

GUWAHATI: For long, the traditional hunting practiced by the Lisu tribe of Arunachal Pradesh in the 1985-sq km Namdapha tiger reserve of the state has been considered a potential threat to wildlife by ...More

JORHAT: Two forest guards sustained critical injuries during an encounter with poachers inside Kaziranga National Park, about 250 km from here, on Sunday evening. The duo was rushed to Jakhalabandh ...More

GUWAHATI: For long, the traditional hunting practiced by the Lisu tribe of Arunachal Pradesh in the 1985-sq km Namdapha tiger reserve of the state has been considered a potential threat to wildlife by ...More