BHOPAL: Pangolin scales which are a rage in China for its aphrodisiac properties is now hot property of party animals in America. A recent Interpol report states that 26% scales of the endangered spec ...More

The number of savanna elephants in Africa is rapidly declining and the animals are in danger of being wiped out as international and domestic ivory trades drive poaching across the continent, accordin ...More

The country has lost 83 tigers within eight months this year, higher than the last year’s total of 77, says the official website of National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA). Madhya Pradesh tops th ...More

BAREILLY: In an alarmingly steep fall in the population of a protected species, blackbuck numbers in Bareilly district have fallen by more than 71%, from 578 in 2013 to just 171 in 2016. While experts ...More

NEW DELHI: Results of the two-year, $8 million Great Elephant Census (GEC) of African savannah elephants led by Elephants Without Borders (EWB) confirm a staggering decline of 30 percent, or 144,000 e ...More

Zimbabwe plans to dehorn all rhino in its national parks to discourage poaching after 50 animals were illegally killed last year, a wildlife conservation group said on Tuesday. Rhino horn is prized i ...More

Wildlife authorities in Zimbabwe have begun dehorning the country's 700 adult rhinos to curb rampant poaching, a conservation group said today. "Our target is to dehorn every single adult rhino an ...More

Africa's rare forest elephants which play a key role in replenishing the central African rainforests will need almost a century to recover from an onslaught by ivory poachers because of their slow bir ...More

Africa’s rare forest elephants which play a key role in replenishing the central African rainforests will need almost a century to recover from an onslaught by ivory poachers because of their slow bir ...More

New Delhi: An abandoned black buck fawn was rescued from Greater Noida on Tuesday after it was found being attacked by a pack of stray dogs. The animal had wandered close to a residential area when an ...More

Some wildlife activists have taken exception to Forest Department officials leaking highly sensitive information related to camera trapping tigers showing their presence in a specific location, to the ...More

CHENNAI: Forest officials arrested a 23-year-old youth near Mayilam in Villupuramdistrict of Tamil Nadu on Sunday for allegedly poaching wild animals. Villpuram district forest officer S Anand told ...More

CUTTACK: Director General of Police (DGP) K B Singh on Saturday urged police personnel to consider wildlife crime cases at par with other serious crimes. He directed police personnel to take up invest ...More

BHUBANESWAR: The Crime Branch (CB) of State Police teamed up with Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WLCCB) and Wildlife Wing on Saturday to train police and forest officials on finer aspects of wildlife ...More

Guwahati: In a bid to increase footfall in the Kaziranga National Park, famed for its one-horned rhinos, the Assam government has decided to keep the park open for tourists for eight months instead of ...More

Guwahati: In a move to increase tourists’ footfalls in the world’s famous one-horned rhino habitat the Kaziranga National Park, steps have been initiated for keeping the Park open for the tourists for ...More

KAZIRANGA, Aug 25 - Chief Minister SarbanandaSonowal today took stock of the overall situation in the Kaziranga National Park where devastating annual floods recently claimed the lives of a large numb ...More

Five persons - two men from Kerala and three persons from the tribal community who helped the duo hunt a Mouse Deer - were arrested by Forest Department personnel near Gudalur in The Nilgiris, on Wedn ...More

In the last 20 months, the state has lost 74 elephants, 26 tigers and 23 leopards in the wild for various reasons such as poaching, termination of man-eaters and natural causes. According to www.t ...More

After requesting Union home minister Rajnath Singh to institute a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the disappearance of Maharashtra's iconic tiger Jai, forest minister SudhirMungantiwa ...More