wildlife conservation

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...

Bhopal, February 28 Union Minister for Environment, Forests, and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav chaired the 89th meeting of the Standing Committee of the National Board for Wildlife and the Central Zoo Authority (NZA) in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, on Friday.The committee considered proposals...

Bhopal, February 28 – Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav, chaired the 89th meeting of the Standing Committee of the National Board for Wildlife (SC-NBWL) in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, on Saturday, considering proposals related to wildlife conservation."The...

Chandrapur, February 28 Two people were killed by wild animals in the Mul and Moharli areas of Chandrapur district on Saturday, according to officials from the forest department.Kashinath Shivaram Lonwale (60), a resident of Padmapur, was killed by a wild animal around 6 pm in compartment no...

Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav, announced today the arrival of nine cheetahs from Botswana at the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh. In a social media post, the Minister stated that the group consists of six females and three males. He added that...

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...

Bhopal, February 27 – Eight more cheetahs are set to arrive at the Kuno National Park in Sheopur district, Madhya Pradesh, from Botswana on February 28, as part of India's Cheetah translocation project.This will be the third major translocation of cheetahs from Africa under the project. The...

Mumbai, February 27 A total of 420 people were killed in attacks by wild animals in Maharashtra over the past five years, with 248 – more than half of these deaths – being caused solely by tigers, and another 104 by leopards, state Forest Minister Ganesh Naik said on Friday.In a written reply...

New Delhi, February 27 Cheetah Gamini, from South Africa, has given birth to her fourth cub at the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh, bringing the total number of cheetahs in India to 39, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said on Friday."Kuno National Park is pleased to announce...

Imphal, February 27 Three Amur falcons, fitted with satellite transmitters in Manipur last November, are currently spending their winter migration period in three African countries, officials said.The falcons, named Ahu, Alang, and Apapang, were tagged by the Manipur Forest Department in...

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...

Jabalpur, February 26 The Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve lost eight tigers, including four due to electrocution, over two and a half months spanning 2025 and early 2026, according to a report submitted to the Madhya Pradesh High Court.The status report submitted by the field director of the...

Solar-powered fencing has been installed in Goalpara to prevent conflict between humans and elephants.In Assam, the Forest Department, with support from the voluntary organization Aaranyak, has installed solar-powered fencing in various areas of the Goalpara district.The initiative aims to...

Beijing, February 24 Nearly 200 Siberian tigers at an animal park in China have been put on a rotational "intermittent fasting program" following excessive feeding by tourists during the recently concluded Chinese New Year holidays.The intermittent fasting of the big cats at the Siberian Tiger...

Bhopal, February 24 Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav has released five endangered vultures into their natural habitat in the Halali Dam area near Bhopal, and stated that the government is committed to protecting wildlife that supports the ecosystem.Madhya Pradesh has the largest...

Raisen, February 23 – Chief Minister Mohan Yadav released five endangered vultures into their natural habitat in the Halali Dam water wetland in Raisen, one of the major reservoirs in the state, located approximately 40 km from the state capital Bhopal, on Monday.Yadav stated that in Indian...

New Delhi, February 23 Snakes, including king cobras, may be unintentionally expanding their habitats in Goa, with trains acting not only as corridors for active movement but also as high-speed conduits, according to a study.Recent media reports have highlighted incidents of snakes on India's...

New Delhi, February 19 The Supreme Court on Thursday took note of the missing records of proceedings from the case files before it and directed its Secretary General to conduct an inquiry into the matter.While hearing a case related to a proposed tiger reserve in Goa, a bench of Chief Justice...

Bhopal, February 18 – The cheetah population at Kuno National Park (KNP) in Madhya Pradesh’s Sheopur district has received a fresh boost, with South African female cheetah, Gamini, giving birth to three cubs on Wednesday.This new litter marks the ninth successful cheetah birth on Indian soil...

Kolkata, February 18 – After a week, another fisherman has been killed in a tiger attack in the Sundarbans region of West Bengal, police said on Wednesday.The deceased, identified as Rampada Burman (45), was a resident of the Chhota Mollakhali Kalidaspur area in the Gosaba region of the South...