While there is a lot that is being done to protect the tigers, much more needs to be done. Tiger habitats are fast shrinking and forest staff are largely demotivated and lowly paid. And poaching still ...More

The Hindu Old sarees tied around a garden in Pannaikadu village near Kodaikanal to stop the entry of Indian Gaurs into the cultivated lands. Photo: S. James. “Hanging saris along the fence of farm l ...More

In the wake of a large number of animal deaths at Kaziranga National Park due to recent floods, environmentalists call for better management practices to meet future conservation needs Desperate situ ...More

One of the purposes of government is to protect public goods threatened by the self-interest of unscrupulous people or corporations. But what happens when governments fail? When they are either unwill ...More

Andaman's endangered Narcondam hornbills may get some reprieve from environment minister Jayanthi who will take up the issue of saving the scarce bird with defence minister AK Antony. Several environm ...More

Vidarbha, with its three tiger reserves, 9 wildlife sanctuaries and national parks, dominates the Central India landscape and is unique with forests lying outside the boundaries of the protected areas ...More

After leaving behind a trail of 595 wildlife deaths in Kaziranga National Park in Assam, the receding flood waters of Brahmaputra have put the forest department on alert against poachers. The rising ...More

Gir, July 9: A peacock shrieks. A monkey scrambles higher into the fire-coloured canopy of a kesudo (palash) tree. And an Asiatic lion pads across the dusty earth of Gujarat’s Gir sanctuary, its onl ...More

Rampant killing of birds has myriad consequences on the ecology and population dynamics of species. Hunting forces birds to use lower-quality habitats, increases the time spent in trying to escape, d ...More

On Sunday, Kaziranga National Park officials found 14 more carcasses of animals, taking the number of animals drowned to 573. The worst floods in the last 25 years were witnessed in 1988 when 1,203 an ...More

MARGAO: Forest department officials have decided to step up their vigilante movement to protect frogs from being hunted during the monsoons. ""We have stepped up protection to monitor activity outs ...More

Six tiger poachers were arrested on the outskirts of Kollegal biodiversity zone that falls under the Biligiriranganathaswamy Tiger (BRT) Reserve Forest on Saturday. The arrested are Jagadish (30), ...More

MUMBAI: The state government on Thursday gave an in-principle approval to a new tiger sanctuary in Vidarbha's Umred-Karandla, nearly 50 km from Nagpur. With this, the total sanctuaries in the state ha ...More

While the tiger hogs the limelight as an animal in distress, other wild denizens are kept aside despite being in dire straits. The greater wildlife varieties hardly make news nor get the attention of ...More

After waiting for four long years, officials at the Sariska Tiger Reserve may soon find a reason to cheer as tell-tale signs point to the arrival of new tiger cubs. The officials are presently guarded ...More

Circumstantial evidence of a tiger sacrifice was not enough. It took a forensic examination to indicate that a tigress was killed deep inside the Corbett National Park more than a month ago - not a ja ...More

Good cause When the tiger is saved, it sets off a domino effect that saves its prey, their food source and every small and big species thriving in the vast habitat. The tiger thus ensures that the en ...More

Recognising the danger posed to wildlife from illegal trade, India and its South Asian neighbours have agreed to develop institutional mechanisms to promote harmonised and collaborative approaches to ...More

WAY back in 1982, Brijendra Singh arrested at gunpoint the entire top brass of the district administration while poaching in the heart of the Corbett National Park, of which he has been Honorary Wildl ...More

BHUBANESWAR: Despite death of 149 elephants, mostly due to poaching and electrocution during last two years in Odisha, the population of pachyderms has increased to 1930 from 1886 in 2010. "The el ...More