THE number of elephants in Africa has dropped by 111,000 in 10 years to just 415,000 today, according to a study published yesterday (Sunday), as experts met in Johannesburg to discuss whether to lift ...More

The number of African elephants has dropped by around 111,000 in the past decade, a new report released at the Johannesburg conference on the wildlife trade said, blaming the plummeting figures on poa ...More

Guwahati: Assam police on Sunday had apprehended three rhino poachers from Assam’s Nagaon district, officials said. Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of police and Special Task Force (STF) apprehe ...More

Guwahati: Assam police on Sunday had apprehended three rhino poachers from Assam’s Nagaon district, officials said. Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of police and Special Task Force (STF) apprehe ...More

Poaching is the main cause for the elephant population to have declined by 1,11,000 over the past 10 years in Africa, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. According to the ...More

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on Sunday said Africa's elephant population has suffered its worst drop in 25 years due to the plummeting numbers on poaching. Based on 275 e ...More

Africa's elephant population fell around 20 percent between 2006 and 2015 because of a surge in ivory poaching, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said in a report on Sunday. S ...More

The forest department is sensitising staff on monitoring social media to keep an eye on information being given by overzealous tourists about sighting tigers in the wild. Officials fear that these de ...More

JOHANNESBURG: Poaching syndicates shipped large amounts of African elephant ivory last year despite global calls to dismantle the trafficking networks that often collude with corrupt officials, conser ...More

HUBBALLI: Foresters in Belgavi and Dandeli have stumbled upon a major wildlife racket involving pangolin (ant eater) meat and scales. In separate raids in the last two days, sleuths have arrested six ...More

CHENNAI: Two people were arrested for poaching local migratory birds at Thiruvidanthai on the East Coast Road on Saturday. The arrested were identified as V Selvam and S Sakthivel of Thirukkazhukkundr ...More

New Delhi, Sep 24: India will start manufacturing collars, drones and other equipment used for tiger protection under its ‘Make in India’ initiative soon. Union Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave t ...More

BOKAKHAT, Sept 23 - The World Rhino Day was celebrated at DhansirimukhJanajati High School, 2 km from Bokakhat town, which is adjacent to the Kaziranga National Park, under the aegis of Aaranyak, a le ...More

The New York authorities seized USD 4.5 million worth of illegal elephant ivory items in what they described as the biggest bust in the state's history, officials said. Ivory items put on display ...More

DEOGARH:At least five elephants have died in Prabhasuni reserve forest of Deogarh district in the last three months. While this has left wildlife activists worried, it has also exposed failure of fore ...More

COIMBATORE: Forest department officials on Thursday afternoon rescued an adult jackal from an abandoned mill at Sundarapuram here. Acting on a tip-off, a team led by Madukkarai forest range officer ...More

Africa’s elephants are still threatened by poachers seeking to kill them for their ivory tusks, but in several southern states populations have rebounded South Africa’s Kruger National Park is litter ...More

MYSURU: A tigress was found dead near Muthurayanaswamy Temple at Anechoukuru range of Hunsur forest division on Wednesday. The big cat aged about 7-8 years is suspected to have died after consuming a ...More

The mysterious death of a tigress in a reserve forest in Mysuru district has perplexed the Forest Department officials who suspect that the cat may have died after eating a venomous Russell’s viper. ...More

GUWAHATI, Sept 21 - The arrest of two notorious poachers – Maqbul Ali and Noor Kasem – from Coonoor in Tamil Nadu in connection with killing of rhinos in Kaziranga National Park has come as a revelati ...More