Bhopal, April 11 – In a significant achievement for India’s cheetah reintroduction program, a 25-month-old female cheetah, Gamini, born in India, has given birth to four healthy cubs in the wild at Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh.Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change...
bhupendra yadav
cheetah
conservation
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kuno national park
madhya pradesh
namibia cheetahs
project cheetah
reintroduction program
south africa cheetahs
wildlife birth
wildlife monitoring
Kendrapara, April 10 A 32-foot-long endangered Bryde's whale washed ashore at the Madali beach in Kendrapara district of Odisha, forest officials said on Friday.The massive mammal, weighing around 10 tonnes, was found on the beach within the Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary. It was a challenging...
beach stranding
bryde's whale
carcass preservation
endangeredspecies
entanglement
gahirmatha marine sanctuary
injury
iucn red list
kendrapara district
marine mammal
odisha
post-mortem
schedule i species
whale death
wildlife (protection) act 1972
New Delhi, April 8 The Union Ministry of Environment has issued a draft notification declaring 663.32 square kilometers around the Kali Tiger Reserve in Karnataka as an Eco-Sensitive Zone.Eco-Sensitive Zones (ESZs) are areas notified by the government around protected areas, national parks...
biodiversity
buffer zone
conservation
eco-sensitive zone
endangeredspecies
environmental ministry
fauna
flora
government notification
kali tiger reserve
karnataka
national park
protected area
western ghats
wildlife sanctuary
Jaipur, April 4 Three new chicks of the critically endangered Great Indian Bustard have been successfully hatched at breeding centers in Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan, using artificial insemination technology, bringing the total number of birds in captivity to 76, officials said.Two chicks...
artificial insemination
avian biology
bird conservation
breeding centers
captive breeding
conservation
desert national park
endangeredspecies
great bustard
great indian bustard
jaisalmer district
rajasthan
species recovery
wildlife
wildlife management
New Delhi, April 2 – The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed a notification by the Rajasthan government that de-notified 732 hectares of the National Chambal Sanctuary, saying it would not allow the de-notification of any reserve land for protected species.The court criticized the "mining mafia"...
chambal river
conservation
eco-sensitive zone
endangeredspecies
environmental protection
gharial
illegal sand mining
mining mafia
national chambal sanctuary
national green tribunal (ngt)
protected area
rajasthan
rajasthan government
sand mining
supreme court
wildlife sanctuary
Jammu, March 28 The population of the endangered Kashmir stag, Hangul, has shown a steady and encouraging increase over the past decade, rising from 183 in 2015 to 323 in 2025, the Jammu and Kashmir government said on Saturday.Responding to a Calling Attention Motion moved by National...
antler size
asiatic red deer
conservation efforts
dachigam control room
dachigam national park
endangeredspecies
forest management
hangul
human-wild boar conflict
jammu and kashmir
kashmir stag
schedule i species
wildlife population
wildlife protection
wildlife protection act
New Delhi, March 20 Taking serious note of the destruction of habitats of aquatic animals due to rampant illegal sand mining in the National Chambal Sanctuary, the Supreme Court on Friday said such destruction in a protected area would attract offences and penalties under various laws, including...
New Delhi, March 13 The Great Indian Bustard (GIB) project has entered its fourth year of its captive breeding program, with the hatching of two new chicks at the Conservation Breeding Centre in Rajasthan this week, bringing the total number of birds in captivity to 70, Environment Minister...
animal reproduction
artificial insemination
bhupender yadav
bird population
captive breeding
conservation breeding centre
endangeredspecies
environment minister
ex situ conservation
great indian bustard
natural mating
rajasthan
species conservation
wildlife conservation
wildlife release
Chennai, March 5 – The forest departments of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Karnataka will conduct a synchronized vulture census across the Nilgiri landscape on March 7 and 8, as a coordinated effort to assess the population of these endangered scavengers in one of southern India’s most important...
bird conservation
data collection
endangeredspecies
karnataka
kerala
long-billed vulture
mudumalai tiger reserve
nest monitoring
nilgiri biosphere reserve
red-headed vulture
tamil nadu
vantage point observation
vulture census
vulture population
white-rumped vulture
wildlife survey
Itanagar, March 3 Arunachal Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein on Tuesday said the government is committed to conserving the state's rich biodiversity and urged people to safeguard forests and endangered species on the occasion of World Wildlife Day.Mein appealed to citizens to act as...
Bhopal/Sheopur, March 1 In a significant step towards wildlife conservation, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav visited the Kuno National Park in the Sheopur district on Sunday and personally released baby gharials and endangered turtles into the Una River.The Chief Minister released 53...
cheetah reintroduction
ecological balance
endangeredspecies
gharial
habitat restoration
kuno national park
madhya pradesh
palpur-kuno
reptile conservation
river ecosystem
sheopur district
species population
three-striped roofed turtle
una river
wildlife conservation
Sheopur (MP), February 28 Nine more cheetahs from Botswana arrived safely at Kuno National Park (KNP) on Saturday, taking India's total count of the big cats to 48, an official said.The third batch of cheetahs from Africa arrived on an IAF aircraft as part of a four-year population revival...
africa
animal relocation
bhupender yadav
botswana
cheetah
cub birth
endangeredspecies
habitat management
indian air force
kuno national park
namibia
population revival
sheopur
south africa
wildlife conservation
Sheopur, February 27 A rare and endangered forest owlet has been sighted in Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh just before the arrival of the third batch of cheetahs from Africa, which an official claimed on Friday was "a significant development in the field of ornithology".Eight cheetahs...
africa
botswana
cheetah reintroduction
endangeredspecies
forest owlet
habitat management
kuno national park
madhya pradesh
ornithology
raptors
subharanjan sen
wildlife conservation
Berhampur (Odisha), February 12 The number of Irrawaddy dolphins in Odisha's Chilika Lake remains unchanged at 159 in the latest census conducted by the wildlife wing of the forest, environment, and climate change department, officials said on Wednesday.The count of the species in the brackish...