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

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

India's national bird, the peacock, is under severe threat from nature's vagaries at one of the largest peacock national parks in the country at Naigaon here. The threat is not from its natural preda ...More

With 80 big cats, the sanctuary has the largest number of tigers in South India after Bandipur The Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary, known as the habitat of the Asiatic elephant, has become a safe haven fo ...More

With 80 big cats, the sanctuary has the largest number of tigers in South India after Bandipur The Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary, known as the habitat of the Asiatic elephant, has become a safe haven fo ...More

Tiger population spikes in the verdant forest cover of Corbett National Park Are there really 214 tigers in Corbett? The elaborate tiger census done in 2010 by the Wildlife Institute of India and th ...More

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat Ecological Education and Research (GEER) Foundation has suggested that a study should be taken up with the help of deep sea scuba divers to estimate the exact population of Dugong a ...More

CHANDRAPUR: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray wound up his two-day visit to Chandrapur on Thursday claiming that he had come here out of his love for wildlife and would play no poli ...More

NAGPUR: National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has decided that henceforth every case of tiger and leopard death will be treated as poaching incident unless proved to be natural death. The lates ...More

NAGPUR: National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has decided that henceforth every case of tiger and leopard death will be treated as poaching incident unless proved to be natural death. The lates ...More

With the number of tigers decreasing rapidly, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has asked forest departments to treat every death of the big cat as a case of poaching — unless proven ot ...More

TIGERS are dying at an alarming rate. It might be too early to say what exactly caused the death of three tigers in Uttar Pradesh in as many days recently, but given the past record, the needle of sus ...More

Marine biologists and ecologists demand the state government to create more awareness among fishermen in protecting the sea horse that breeds at the gulf of mannar from May to August. The marine scien ...More

Dudhwa Tiger Reserve in Uttar Pradesh, third home of the reintroduced Great Asian one-horn rhinos in the country, has shown the way to combat the menace with its unique ID-based monitoring. The larges ...More

New Delhi, May 27: Six countries, including Russia and China, have sought India’s help to replicate Project Tiger, one of the most successful conservation programmes running in the country to protect ...More

NEW DELHI: Six countries, including Russia and China, have sought India's help to replicate Project Tiger, one of the most successfulconservation programmes running in the country to protect the big c ...More

The shoot-at-sight order issued by the Maharashtra Government in the Vidharba Forest region to control poaching has evoked mixed responses. While sources in Environment Ministry have expressed doubt ...More

It was the responsibility of every citizen to support any endeavour to conserve the environment, said BJP State unit president K.S. Eshwarappa. He was inaugurating a consultation meeting of the repre ...More

JOHANNESBURG, May 23: At least 220 endangered rhinos were killed by poachers for their horns in South Africa since the beginning of this year, authorities said. Among the slaughtered rhinos, 207 were ...More

The Kerala State Biodiversity Board (KSBB) is launching an awareness campaign on May 22 to sensitise coastal communities to the threats faced by marine life and ecosystems and highlight the need for s ...More