NEWS & UPDATES

Kaziranga: Four elephants have died over the last four days in Upper Assam, according to reports reaching here. While post mortem reports are not yet available, prima facie evidence strongly suggest poisoning to be the cause for three of the four...

New Delhi: In what is one of the biggest seizures of raw shahtoosh wool in India, over 230 kgs of the wool from the highly endangered Tibetan antelope have been caught in two separate...

Haridwar: Uttaranchal Forest Minister Nav Prabhat, wildlife and forest officials, and several journalists were assaulted by shopkeepers here on Sunday during a raid on a shop illegally trading in animal...

New Delhi: The manufacture of shahtoosh shawls has finally been banned in the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), the only place in the world where they have been woven for centuries. The historic law making this possible was notified earlier this week,...

NEW DELHI: More than 1,800 illegally traded Indian Star Tortoises have been flown from Singapore to India to be reintroduced into their natural habitat after two major seizures by Singapore CITES...

NEW DELHI: More than 1,800 illegally traded Indian Star Tortoises have been flown from Singapore to India to be reintroduced into their natural habitat after two major seizures by Singapore CITES...

KAZIRANGA: The country’s first scientifically managed wildlife rehabilitation and reintroduction centre was inaugurated at Borjuri here today by the Assam Forest Minister, Mr Pradyut Bordoloi. The Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation...

New Delhi: The most prêt statement to be made at the Lakme India Fashion Week (LIFW) came from leading fashion designers and a pop icon here this evening. They said “NO TO SHAHTOOSH” and urged people not to prey on the endangered Tibetan Antelope...

KAZIRANGA: The centre may not have been officially inaugurated as yet, but it is the one which is providing much-needed succour to animals caught all on the wrong foot by rising floodwaters in the Kaziranga National Park. Personnel of the Centre for Wildlife...

The need to provide supplementary accident insurance to field forest staff in India had been felt for a long time by forest officers, as well as nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Over the years, as the demand for timber and non-timber forest produce...

Pakhui: A three-month-old elephant calf has died in the Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh. The calf, which had been badly lacerated by some carnivore, was rescued by a forest guard from a remote part of the sanctuary about a week...

LEH: Things might just finally be looking up for the Ladakh Urial. From being on the verge of extinction a few decades ago when barely a hundred grazed on the banks of the Indus and Shyok rivers in the cold desert region of Ladakh, the numbers have risen....

Chilla (RNP): A month-old elephant calf has been rescued from the throes of being carried away by swirling waters by wildlife personnel in the Haridwar forest division. Now christened Ganga, the female calf was pulled out of an irrigation canal by staff of...

New Delhi: The Union minister for Textiles, Mr Kashiram Rana’s assertion that his ministry will attempt to lift the ban on shahtoosh weaving has come as a shock to wildlife conservationists who have been campaigning for a stricter ban on shahtoosh...

Chilla: He is a rather unusual baby for a 22-year-old to have, but five-month-old Yogi couldn’t have asked for a more devoted mother than Kadambari Mainker, a volunteer with Wildlife Trust of India, assigned for a month to play mom to a three-month-old...

New Delhi: Large caches of hair used for artist brushes, extracted by slaughtering hundreds of thousands of mongooses, were seized in nationwide raids over the...

New Delhi: An anthrax outbreak in Bori Wildlife Sanctuary, in Hoshangabad district, Madhya Pradesh, has lead to the deaths of two gaurs (Indian Bison). Samples collected from the livestock on the fringes of the sanctuary have shown presence of the anthrax...

New Delhi: In a completely barbaric incident, poachers captured, clubbed to death and skinned a leopard, all of which has been filmed on a video tape by them. The police have arrested two alleged poachers and the photographer who was filming the gruesome...

Nagpur: As many as 25 gaur have died in Nawegaon National Park, Maharashtra due to the onset of an epidemic since March 2002. Many more gaurs may die unless the disease is immediately identified and prevention measures are...

Chilla, May 20, 2002: In early April, when the Mussourie Express was passing thorough the Chilla-Motichur sector of the Rajaji National Park, the driver received a wireless message that an elephant herd was on the tracks. He was able to stop the train in time...