NEW DELHI: Its not been a great year for wildlife. More tigers and leopards were poached in 2016 than in any year of the previous decade, pangolins were killed in the hundreds while thousands of marin ...More

India lost 117 tigers this year, says the official website of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), with ninety-five deaths so far and the seizure of 22 skins. There has been a 24% increa ...More

Palanpur: A voluntary organisation, Federation of Indian Animal (FIA), working in the LittelRann of Kutch region, has claimed that they have found carcasses of wild ass, black buck, blue bull and some ...More

Bhubaneswar: After just three days of lull, the Tangi wildlife personnel on Wednesday morning arrested four poachers and sized five dead and two live migratory birds from them. The wildlife personnel ...More

NEW DELHI: Its not been a great year for wildlife. More tigers and leopards were poached in 2016 than in any year of the previous decade, pangolinswere killed in the hundreds while thousands of marine ...More

UDAIPUR: Till some time back, when one spoke of migratory birds in Rajasthan, it usually meant at Bharatpur, but due to good rains, the tribal wetlands are proving perfect hideaways for birds of vario ...More

SHAHJAHANPUR: A rhinoceros that strayed in villages, about 10 km from Lakhimpur Kheri city, during the monsoon is yet to be sent back to its natural habitat.The forest officials are trying to monitor ...More

Close on the heels of the arrest of nine people on the charge of poaching owls in Sorab recently, another attempt to catch these birds was reported from Holebenavalli near here on Thursday. According ...More

DHENKANAL: Rare birds were found dead on the banks of river Brahmani leading to apprehension of their poaching during the migratory season. Social activists led by wildlife lover Rajendra Panigrahi i ...More

With the forest areas in Ramanagaram district witnessing four unnatural deaths of elephants in 12 days, the Forest Department will now start filing criminal cases against farmers who erect electric fe ...More

BANGKOK, December 19 (Reuters): A rainbow-headed snake and a dragon-like lizard are among 163 new species that scientists recently discovered in the Greater Mekong region, conservation group WWF said ...More

BANGKOK: A rainbow-headed snake, a dragon-like lizard and a newt that looks like a Klingon from the Star Trek series are among 163 new species found in the ecologically diverse but threatened region o ...More

Bangkok: A rainbow-headed snake and a dragon-like lizard are among 163 new species that scientists recently discovered in the Greater Mekong region, conservation group WWF said on Monday, adding rapid ...More

Big cats cannot be killed or declared “man-eaters”, the Uttarakhand high court said on Monday, in a landmark decision for a region that has seen a spate of man-animal conflicts recently. Hearing a pu ...More

BHOPAL: Action against as many as 39 accused in 7 cases has been taken by special task force (STF) for hunting of tigers and other wild animals and smuggling of their body parts in Kanha-Pench corrido ...More

INDONESIA: Deep from within the Indonesian jungle a solitary, seldom seen forest giant emerges from the undergrowth. It is a Sumatran rhino, one of the rarest large mammals on Earth. There are n ...More

The MP forest department’s special task force (STF) arrested 39 people for poaching three tigers, four leopards and 200 wild boars, busting a major poaching network in the Pench-Kanha corridor in Seon ...More

The euphoria over rise in world tiger population early this year may have been misplaced for India as the official data placed before Parliament shows that 98 tigers died in the country till November ...More

JAIPUR: The Desert National Park (DNP) in Jaisalmer has witnessed the successful birth of 11 Great Indian Bustards(GIB), taking the figure of the "critically endangered" species at its facility to 151 ...More

Guwahati: Amid heightened security, poachers active in and around Kaziranga National Park managed to kill yet another rhino in the Park and subsequently took away its horn. A senior forest department ...More