NEWS & UPDATES

New Delhi: The much-awaited Animal Action Week 2007 is all set to fire the imagination of schoolchildren across the country. The fifth in its series in India, this annual event reaches out to impressionable young minds, aiming to generate awareness among...

Bihar: Hidden camera traps are proving to be an effective method for spotting the elusive big cats in Valmiki Tiger Reserve, where natural sighting of the animal has become...

China, October 15 : A South-China tiger, thought to be ‘functionally extinct’ in the wild, was photographed in Shanxi Province in China by the task force initiated in 2006 by the Provincial Forestry Department and the local county government ....

Manas – Assam: Two hand-raised orphaned rhinos arrived at Manas National Park this morning after a 12-hour-long truck journey from their previous home at the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) in...

Talodi Range (Maharashtra): The Maharashtra Forest Department has ordered the capture of a tiger which has claimed 3 human lives in the vicinity of the Tadoba Andheri Tiger Reserve. Armed forest guards are on the look out for the two predators in the Talodi...

New Delhi: Conservationists are excited at the discovery of a new nesting site of the endangered Greater Adjutant stork in the eastern Indian state of...

Ashok Kumar with inputs from Rosa Argent of IFAW One of the routes to the decimation of wild species has been shut down: The fur trade of Srinagar in Kashmir valley. The process began some years back in 1997. The time had come, late no doubt, that a licensed...

Kaziranga – Assam: Although rhinos moving out of the Kaziranga National Park are a common phenomenon, of late such incidents have increased, officials who recently rescued a rhino near Lakhimpur Town...

Kaziranga (Assam): A female rhino was shot dead by poachers in Kaziranga National Park, Assam in the first week of this year. The rhino, killed on January 7, was found the next day with its horn intact by the Forest...

Jharkhand:  Nearly three hundred forest staff in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand are participating in a workshop to equip themselves to tackle wildlife crimes and to protect...

Sunheri Masjid (North Delhi): Two Shikras (Accipiter badius), one alive and another dead, were seized from a youth in the capital last Thursday, while he was waiting for prospective buyers near Sunheri Masjid, about 200 metres away from the nearest police...

Chandil (Jharkhand):  A two-month old sloth bear cub was rescued Monday from a wildlife trader’s home in the eastern Indian Jharkhand state by a joint team of Forest Department and Widlife Trust of India. However, the trader...

New Delhi: The Additional Sessions Judge of Alipurduar in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal today dismissed a bail application of notorious wildlife trader Ratiram...

Bansbari, Assam: Manas National Park has received its first greater one horned rhinos seven years after its approximately 100-strong population was wiped out by...

Manas: The three rhinos at the rehabilitation facility at the Manas national park are sniffing the air for the onset of the pre-monsoon showers awaiting the time when tender palatable grasses will once more be abundant in the...

Arunachal Pradesh: Three wild elephants that were rescued a fortnight ago from poachers from the forests of India’s remote north-east Arunachal Pradesh state were successfully united with a large herd on Friday, in a joint operation by the forest officials...

Veraval: Thousands of people from the Kharva fishing community today pledged to protect the whale shark in Veraval in the Western Indian state of Gujarat – in an event marked by several important...

New Delhi: Nine individuals who were among the best, chosen for their contribution to wildlife conservation were honoured today at the ninth Venu Menon National Animal Awards function organized at the Stein Auditorium in India Habitat Center, New...

New Delhi: China Customs seized nearly 68 kgs of illegal elephant ivory from a female passenger that had just arrived in Beijing from Addis Abba, Ethiopia on...

Pakke (Arunachal Pradesh): Five Asiatic black bear cubs of the Centre for Bear Rehabilitation and Conservation (CBRC) moved a step closer to being wild, as phase two of their rehabilitation began last week at the Pakke Tiger Reserve. Two bears were...