BHUBANESWAR: Odisha has seen terrible human-animal conflict in the last six years, resulting in the deaths of 454 people and 2,261 animals, including 388 elephants, a forest department report said. Po ...More

In order to get more attention and protection to Kashmir's Red stag, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has decided to put Red Stag on the critically endangered species list. Th ...More

In order to protect and increase wild tiger population, nearly one million acres of protected habitat in India and Bhutan will be covered under a new private conservation efforts. The ‘Project C.A.T ...More

Nagpur: Judicial magistrate first class (JMFC), Hingna, PP Deshmukh on Thursday sentenced five persons to one year imprisonment for hunting 36 water birds listed under various schedules of Wildlife (P ...More

NEW DELHI: In order to protect and increase wild tiger population, nearly one million acres of protected habitat in India and Bhutan will be covered under a new private conservation efforts. The 'P ...More

BENGALURU: Karnataka saw 51,278 trees being illegally axed between April 2013 and March 2016, accounting for 4.7% of the total destruction reported in 15 states and two Union territories (UTs). The st ...More

Interpol’s environment crime wing has issued a red corner notice against international wildlife smuggler JaiyTamang alias PassangLimi following a request by the Madhya Pradesh wildlife department in a ...More

Srinagar: As the Kashmir Stag popularly known as Hangul is on the verge of extinction, largely because of human intrusions and domestic livestock grazing, the International Union for Conservation of N ...More

BHOPAL: The environment crime wing of International Criminal Police Organization - Interpol has issued red corner notice against JaiyTamang, 42, a resident of Nepal taking cognisance of an application ...More

BHOPAL: As many as 13 tigers have died in the past one year due to poisoning and electrocution, besides other reasons in two national parks of Madhya Pradesh. Replying to an RTI query, state forest de ...More

Bhopal, Oct 16: As many as 13 tigers have died in the past one year due to poisoning and electrocution, besides other reasons in two national parks of Madhya Pradesh. Replying to an RTI query, state f ...More

Two persons were arrested on a charge of hunting a rabbit and a civet in the early hours of Sunday. The carcasses of the rabbit and the civet were seized from them. The arrested were A. Donald (25) a ...More

RANCHI: Jharkhand has seen the deaths of a staggering 156 elephants -- or nearly a fifth of its pachyderm population -- since it was carved out of Bihar in November 2000, prompting the state to set up ...More

A seven-year-old tigress, Durga, died at the Thrissur Zoo in Kerala on Thursday, becoming the 100th Indian tiger to die this year. Durga had been brought only recently from Kerala’s Wayanad Wildlife ...More

Pangolin is the only mammals with scaly covered, shy and about the size of house cat, is the most illegal trading and trafficking animal in the world Pangolin is known as Shaphu in Manipuri. The name ...More

Durga hailed from the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary in Kerala. Dhanesh Kumar, the Divisional Forest Officer of the Wayanad sanctuary, told IANS that the tigress died during treatment at the zoo. "We s ...More

A seven-year-old tigress, Durga, died at the Thrissur Zoo in Kerala on Thursday, becoming the 100th Indian tiger to die this year. Durga hailed from the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary in Kerala. Dhanesh ...More

Hoardings put up across KWS to appeal to better sense of locals, tourists and poachers The Wildlife Management authorities have launched a drive against poaching of the Fishing Cat, which is classifi ...More

Stating that man-animal conflict in certain parts of Goa is not severe, state Wildlife Board today refrained from declaring any animal as vermin, even as Forest department recommended that wild pigs b ...More

The mystery revolving around the seizure of a huge quantity of antlers, pangolin scales and tusks of a young elephant (without skulls), remains to be resolved, even as the accused has produced a certi ...More