BHUBANESWAR: In the last 19 years in Orissa, 231 elephants fell victim to poachers while 166 were killed in accidents and 173 more died from natural causes, says a wildlife NGO. While the government g ...More

KALAIGAON, Oct 6 – In a bid to garner goodwill and cooperation of villagers living in fringe areas, the authorities of Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park have formed 11 Eco Development Committees ( ...More

BHUBANESWAR: In the last 19 years in Orissa, 231 elephants fell victim to poachers while 166 were killed in accidents and 173 more died from natural causes, says a wildlife NGO. While the government ...More

According to the latest statistics released by the Uttarakhand Forest Department, at least 48 tigers, 544 leopards and 186 elephants have died in the State during the past 10 years due to differen ...More

NEW DELHI: Notorious poacher Sansar Chand, better known as ‘Veerappan of north India’, was on Wednesday sentenced to six years in jail — maximum punishment prescribed under the Wildlife Protection ...More

LUCKNOW: The leopard deaths are continuing in the country. The anti-poaching cell of Uttarakhand forest department seized two leopard skins on Wednesday night from Chakrata in Dehradun district. There ...More

PANAJI: Dealing with tiger poaching and illegal mining isn't really a walk in the park. Perhaps that is why forest guards in Goa's seven wildlife sanctuaries will now whiz through the woods on motorcy ...More

LUCKNOW: The leopard deaths are continuing in the country. The anti-poaching cell of Uttarakhand forest department seized two leopard skins on Wednesday night from Chakrata in Dehradun district. The ...More

PANAJI: Dealing with tiger poaching and illegal mining isn't really a walk in the park. Perhaps that is why forest guards in Goa's seven wildlife sanctuaries will now whiz through the woods on motorcy ...More

The Ramnagar forest divison here on Thursday could not proceed in a tiger poaching case reported from Fathepur range forest division on January 2009, despite presence poacher Narayan Chand as the lawy ...More

NEW DELHI: It is worshipped and used in religious rituals, but also slogs it out in labour camps; it features prominently in our history and mythology, but is also an icon of modern India. In a bid to ...More

New Delhi: The government on Tuesday accepted the Elephant Task Force report and decided to set up a National Elephant Conservation Authority (NECA) along the lines of the one for endangered tigers. ...More

Acting on the recommendation of a task force, the government has now decided to declare the elephant a 'national heritage animal' and launch a major conservation exercise to protect the elephants. I ...More

NEW DELHI: It is worshipped and used in religious rituals, but also slogs out in labour camps; it features prominently in our history and mythology, but is also an icon of modern India. In a bid to gi ...More

NEW DELHI: It is worshipped and used in religious rituals, but also slogs out in labour camps; it features prominently in our history and mythology, but is also an icon of modern India. In a bid to gi ...More

A notorious poacher who killed and ate wild animals like tiger and hyena has been sentenced to three years rigorous imprisonment by a court in Madhya Pradesh. Dariya Bawaria was on Wednesday also ...More

The Forest Department squad of Biligiri Rangana Temple Wildlife Sanctuary (BRTWLS), pursuing fleeing poachers, has bumped into a well-knit racket into ungulate (hoofed animals) poaching, which has bee ...More

Dehradun, August 27 To rein in poachers — who are on the prowl in the snowbound areas of the state, hunting for leopards, musk deer, bears and the Himalayan blue sheep — the Uttarakhand government is ...More

It seems Shera, the Commonwealth Games mascot, is fighting for survival in a system rotten from top to bottom. Not faraway, the shera in the wild is fighting another rotten system. On August 20, I was ...More

It seems Shera, the Commonwealth Games mascot, is fighting for survival in a system rotten from top to bottom. Not faraway, the shera in the wild is fighting another rotten system. On August 20, I was ...More