wildlife

New Delhi, March 29 Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Sunday recalled that in June 2010, as the then environment minister, he had written to the then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, calling for conservation efforts to revive the Great Indian Bustard population in the grasslands of Kutch...

New Delhi, March 29 Congress leader Jairam Ramesh recalled on Sunday that in June 2010, as the then environment minister, he had written to the then-Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, calling for conservation efforts to revive the Great Indian Bustard population in the grasslands of Kutch...

Shivamogga, March 28 – The death of a young veterinarian in Shivamogga, Karnataka, has taken a new turn, with her family alleging a larger conspiracy behind the incident and evidence pointing to lapses at the Tyavarekoppa Tiger and Lion Safari facility on Saturday.Sources confirmed that...

Nashik, March 28 A leopard wandered into a residential area in Satpur, Nashik, on Saturday, causing panic among residents, officials said.The leopard was tranquilized after a four-hour effort by personnel from the forest, police, and district administration, they added.The big cat was...

Satna, March 28 A female sambar deer was killed by a pack of stray dogs in a rice paddy field in Satna district, Madhya Pradesh, on Saturday, according to a forest department official.The incident occurred in the morning in ward number 15 of Chaubepur village, near the Chitrakoot nag...

Bijnor (UP), March 28 A 57-year-old woman was killed by a leopard while she was working in a field near a forest with her husband, police said on Saturday.The incident took place at Hidayatpur Chauhadwala village in the Afzalgarh area on Friday evening.According to Forest Ranger Pradeep...

Jaipur, March 27 – A cheetah that strayed from Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park has entered Rajasthan, causing panic in the Pipalda Sammel village under the Madanpura panchayat in the Sultanpur area of the Kota district.The cheetah, KP-2, was spotted moving through fields and residential...

Korba, March 27 A female bear and her two cubs died after coming into contact with a power line, allegedly illegally installed by a state-run electricity transmission company in the Korba district of Chhattisgarh, officials said on Friday.The incident occurred on Thursday in the Kendai forest...

Kota (RJ), March 26 Anita Chaudhary, a forest guard stationed at the Shergarh wildlife sanctuary in Rajasthan, has been awarded the 'Machhli National Award' presented by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature.The award, recognizing her outstanding contribution to wildlife rescue and conservation...

Lakhimpur Kheri (UP), March 25 A seven-year-old girl was killed in a leopard attack in the Sidhauna village within the Dudhwa National Park on Wednesday night, officials said.The girl, identified as Simran, was reportedly sitting with her family inside their farmhouse in the village when the...

Shravasti (UP), March 24 Police have arrested six more people in connection with allegedly preparing and disposing of non-vegetarian food during an iftar party near the Sonpathri Ashram Temple here, bringing the total number of arrests to 10, officials said on Tuesday.Four people were arrested...

Thiruvananthapuram, March 24 The Kerala State Human Rights Commission has directed authorities to expedite the issuance of a legal heirship certificate to enable the disbursement of the remaining compensation to the family of a mahout who was killed in an elephant attack in Kottoor recently...

Sydney, March 24 – Australia's environment experienced another year of above-average conditions in 2025, but climate change is "accelerating" damage to ecosystems and wildlife, a new report said on Tuesday.The 2025 Australia's Environment Report, conducted annually, found that the number of...

Berhampur (Odisha), March 22 Panic gripped villagers in the Patrapur block of Odisha's Ganjam district after a video of a suspected leopard sitting on a nearby hill went viral on social media.However, forest officials said they found no footprints or received any reports of livestock being...

Ranchi, March 22 Jharkhand's Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Head of Forest Force, Sanjeev Kumar, emphasized on Sunday the urgent need to balance development with sustainability, and called for widespread adoption of green technology to reduce environmental damage.Due to continuous...

Wayanad (Kerala), March 22 The Forest Department has launched an operation to tranquilize and capture a wild elephant that has repeatedly raided crops and posed a threat to human lives in Vadakkanad, officials said on Sunday.According to forest officials, efforts are being made to capture the...

Lakhimpur Kheri (UP), March 21 (UP) – The carcass of a leopard cub was recovered from a field in the Samapurnanagar range of the Dudhwa buffer zone on Saturday morning. Forest officials attributed the death to an attack by another leopard.Kirti Chaudhary, Deputy Director of the Dudhwa buffer...

Kota, March 20 The carcasses of 12 peacocks, ranging from two to seven days old, were found in the buffer zone of the Ramgarh Vishdhari Tiger Reserve in the Indergarh range of the Bundi district on Friday afternoon. Officials suspect that a disease may have caused the deaths.Meanwhile, seven...

Bengaluru, March 20 A veterinarian at the Tavarekoppa Lion and Safari Zoo in Shivamogga died after being attacked by a hippopotamus while providing medical care to the animal inside its enclosure.The deceased, Dr Sameeksha Reddy (26), had recently been appointed on a contract basis, according...

Una (HP), March 19 According to villagers, approximately 1,000 Khair trees, worth crores of rupees, have allegedly been cut down in the forest in the Jhamber Panchayat area of the Una district.The issue came to light on Wednesday when villagers went to the forest and discovered that a large...