In wake of severe cold waves sweeping across the Chamba region, the district forest authorities have constituted teams for protection and rescue of wildlife, migrating to lower heights and often stray ...More

COIMBATORE: The annual tiger census at Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) commenced on a positive note on Monday with volunteers spotting pugmarks of the big cat along water bodies in the deep jungles of th ...More

Of all things, catching snakes is becoming popular in the city, to the alarm of ecologists. So much so that the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), which is probing reptile trade in different parts ...More

Nagpur: In an important order with nationwide ramifications, Justice SB Shukre of the Nagpur bench of Bombay high court on Friday cancelled the bail granted by the sessions court to international tige ...More

AHMEDABAD: The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), citing a report of the CITES secretariat tabled for the 65th meeting of the standing committee, has stated that the lion populations in Gujar ...More

BHUBANESWAR: Rattled by the growing man-elephant conflict in Dhenkanal, the State Wildlife Wing has begun an exercise to facilitate movement of jumbos from the forest division where the long ranging a ...More

CHANDRAPUR: Poachers appear to be freely hunting in the forest with muzzle loading guns and crude bombs in Chimur range, on the outskirts of Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve. While investigations are stil ...More

AHMEDABAD: A wildlife photographer with a mission, Mona Patel has taken it upon herself to start a campaign to save the tiger. And she has begun her drive from Gujarat, as she thinks it sets a good of ...More

NAGPUR: Despite strong global support for tiger conservation, survival of the species continues to be threatened due to habitat loss, poaching and isolation, but a team of global and India scientists ...More

Chandrapur: A sub-adult leopard was found dead in suspicious condition on the outskirts of Vyahad village in Saoli forest range on Thursday morning. Forest officials claimed that though the carcass wa ...More

Chandrapur: A sensational case of a poacher being electrocuted by wire laid in forest by his gang has come to fore in Virur police station. Investigations into a two-month old case of recovery of a mu ...More

Gangs poaching wild animals using jaw-traps appear to have become active. A leopard was found caught in a jaw-trap at a farm in Hagaranahalli village off Mysuru-Hunsur Road, about 4 km from Arabitttu ...More

BENGALURU: One more poaching incident rocked the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary. In the early hours of Saturday, at Chingalwadi Reserve in Sangam Wildlife Range, a forest watcher was injured when he was f ...More

Bangalore, Nov. 29: India’s wildlife parks have for several years been GPS-tracking their animals through radio-collars and microchip implants. For the first time now, the trackers will be tracked too ...More

Nagpur: In a major setback to state forest department, notorious tiger skin trader and poacher from Haryana Dalbir Shrichand Bawaria was acquitted in trafficking of tiger skins by Kamptee judicial mag ...More

Youths have been deployed at 50 villages to keep officials updated about poaching in Kolleru lake. The task of the special mobile team and volunteers has been turned into a strenuous one as the migrat ...More

Chandrapur: Forest officials investigating the blue bull poaching case in Chimur range have stumbled upon a huge racket of poachers spanned across more than three ranges. Officials have arrested 13 po ...More

The government is planning to rehabilitate orphaned tiger cubs in the wild as the tiger population has dipped due to poaching. Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar, while replying to a question dur ...More

KOLKATA: The central government has asked scientists in northeast India to map and document the biodiversity in Assam's famous Kaziranga National Park. According to Narayan Talukdar, Director of I ...More

Trying to overcome inadequate with resources in dealing with wildlife crimes, especially organised gangs, across India, the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) has asked all state governments to set ...More