Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off his campaign for the high-stakes Assam election battle on Saturday, addressing five rallies where he called Assam a “diseased state” and said he could feel “str ...More

A spokeswoman for a South African wildlife park said poachers have killed two white rhino cows and seriously injured a bull. Marketing manager of the Sibuya Game Reserve, Charlene Watson, said on Satu ...More

BHUBANESWAR: Athagarh has proved to be graveyard for elephants with poachers striking in Dalijoda forests where they brutally beheaded a tusker and decamped with the ivory. The incident, which came t ...More

For better monitoring of offences such as poaching and tree felling, tracking forest fires, and plantation and protection of Maharashtra's green cover, the state government has begun distributing GPS- ...More

The critically endangered rhino was caught in a pit trap this month in East Kalimantan province in an area close to mining operations and plantations, where the WWF said it was struggling to survive. ...More

Jakarta, Indonesia: Environmentalists have made physical contact with a Sumatran rhino on the Indonesian part of Borneo island for the first time in over 40 years, the WWF said on Wednesday, hailing ...More

Nagpur: The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), the statutory body under the MoEFCC monitoring all tiger reserves in the country, has ordered a probe into missing dominant male tiger Dendu a ...More

A total of 193 elephants died in the last three years inOdisha despite several efforts by the government to protect the animals, the assembly was informed on Tuesday. Replying to a question by Congre ...More

JAKARTA: Environmentalists have made physical contact with a Sumatran rhino on the Indonesian part of Borneo island for the first time in over 40 years, the World Wildlife Fund said on Wednesday, hail ...More

DHAKA: Bangladesh on Monday banned boats from sailing through a key southwestern river after a ship loaded with coal capsized, threatening the sanctuaries of rare dolphins in the world's largest mangr ...More

Dhaka: Bangladesh on Monday banned boats from sailing through a key southwestern river after a ship loaded with coal capsized, threatening the sanctuaries of rare dolphins in the world’s largest mangr ...More

Chandni’s death will not be in vain. The poaching of Aarey Colony’s beloved leopard on Monday spurred the Thane forest department and the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) to come up with a plan to t ...More

THE FOREST department officials have said the dead leopard found in Aarey Colony might have had got stuck in a snare, meant for other animals. The decomposing carcass of a six-year old female leopard ...More

NEW DELHI: Tigers need much more space than our protected areas or tiger reserves provide for currently. While that's true for all wildlife, a recent study published this month in Biological Conservat ...More

DHAKA: Bangladesh on Monday banned boats from sailing through a key southwestern river after a ship loaded with coal capsized, threatening the sanctuaries of rare dolphins in the world's largest mangr ...More

Nagpur: At a time tiger habitats are shrinking, a study by five Indian scientists has found that tigers have survived better in larger protected areas (PAs) across all habitat types in India. However, ...More

Kolhapur: As many as 32 wild animals were hunted in the forest areas falling under the Kolhapur division's jurisdiction since 2013. According to the data furnished by the forest department, the num ...More

Despite minister for forests SudhirMungantiwar stating in the state assembly that there has been no tiger poaching incident in the state in past two years, activist KishorRithe has objected to it and ...More

In a shocking incident that has raised concern over the safety of leopards, a decomposed carcass of a female big cat was found on Saturday afternoon at Aarey Colony with a wire snare entangled on its ...More

NAGPUR: Three tribals were held for poaching a flying squirrel in Chichgarh range under Gondia forest division. A live monitor lizard was also seized from them. The incident occurred at in Wadekasa ...More