Perhaps all children grow up reading William Blake’s beautiful poem The Tiger. Not all of them, however, are fortunate enough to sight the tiger in the wild. And if poachers have their way, who knows ...More

Thanks to silent crusaders like Divya Shrivastava, we can still recite the lines: “Tiger, tiger, burning bright, In the forests of the night” from William Blake’s poem ‘The Tyger’ if we happen to visi ...More

JORHAT: Poachers killed another rhino at Kaziranga National Park on Saturday and chopped off its horn. Forest staff found four blank cartridges of AK 47 and .303 rifles from the spot. With this, the ...More

Perhaps all children grow up reading William Blake’s beautiful poem The Tiger. Not all of them, however, are fortunate enough to sight the tiger in the wild. And if poachers have their way, who knows ...More

Two poachers were arrested and 10 kg raw wild boar meat seized from them, Bhitarkanika National Park authorities in Kendrapara district said on Saturday. The duo, Panchanan Mandal and Banamali Das, c ...More

The Centre has drafted a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to ensure a tiger or leopard carcass is disposed of without leaving scope for pilferage. The National Tiger Conservation Authority has wri ...More

Jorhat, March 23: At a time the forest department is readying for another headcount of rhinos at Kaziranga National Park from tomorrow, the population of the park’s prized animal decreased by one with ...More

Bengaluru: Bengaluru is fast becoming a hub of illegal wildlife trade. Data from the Forest Department suggest that the city is being used as a conduit point for supply and export of wildlife articles ...More

(Reuters) - Anna, Bella, Cinta, Dadang and Elena are five Indonesian elephants available for "adoption" as part of a conservation project to save endangered Asian elephants and allow them to remain li ...More

Some years ago, at one of those mindnumbing and raucous dinner events that are sometimes inescapable, a wellbuilt man then in his forties was holding court, extolling to his fawning audience the many ...More

International experts are looking into the issues plaguing the Important Bird Areas (IBA) of Kerala. A two-member team from the BirdLife International (BI), the agency which assesses the conservation ...More

(Reuters) - Anna, Bella, Cinta, Dadang and Elena are five Indonesian elephants available for "adoption" as part of a conservation project to save endangered Asian elephants and allow them to remain li ...More

The 16th meeting of the signatories to the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in Bangkok concluded yesterday. It is a trade control treaty betwe ...More

A seven-point plan that can bring the big cat back from the brink of extinction India was once the only home to the world’s “big four” cats — the lion, tiger, cheetah and leopard. It also played host ...More

A seven-point plan that can bring the big cat back from the brink of extinction India was once the only home to the world’s “big four” cats — the lion, tiger, cheetah and leopard. It also played host ...More

Chennai: More skeletons are tumbling out after DC’s expose on unchecked poaching and tree felling in forest areas of southern districts particularly in Tirunelveli district. The forest department has ...More

The Uttarakhand High Court has sought an explanation from the State Government regarding the number of Van Gujjars living in protected forest areas and aspects related to their rehabilitation, informe ...More

THE NATIONAL Tiger Conservation Authority sounded a countrywide red alert against poaching last week. On 7 March, a report released at the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species mee ...More

We all want the Indian economy to roar, but that roar will die out if its foundations are weak. Growth needs to be inclusive, and ecologically sustainable. These concerns should not be mere words but ...More

The ‘unnatural diet’ and ‘severe cold conditions’ in Chandigarh have proved fatal for the migratory birds this year. Eight migratory birds were found dead at Sukhna Lake in the last two months. The m ...More