wildlife

New Delhi, March 9 – The Namibian cheetah, named Jwala, has given birth to five cubs at the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh, bringing India’s total cheetah population to over 50, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav announced on Monday.This is a remarkable success for India's...

Jaipur, March 9 A tiger from the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve that had strayed out of the forest area and was spotted near a five-star hotel has returned to the reserve, forest officials said on Monday.The incident once again highlights concerns over space and territorial pressures among the...

Union Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Bhupender Yadav announced today the birth of five cubs to female cheetah Jwala at Kuno National Park. In a social media post, the Minister stated that with this birth, the number of Indian-born thriving cubs has risen to 33, marking the 10th...

New Delhi, March 9 Namibian cheetah Jwala gave birth to five cubs at Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh on Monday, bringing the country's total cheetah population to 53, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav announced.This development comes days after cheetah Gamini gave birth to four...

Morena, March 9 A fully grown crocodile was rescued after it wandered into a wheat farm, causing panic among villagers in Morena district of Madhya Pradesh, a forest official said on Monday.The incident occurred on Sunday afternoon in Masoodpur village in the Sarai Chola area when some...

Jaipur, March 8 A tiger from the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan's Sawai Madhopur district strayed out of the forest and reached the vicinity of a five-star hotel early Sunday, officials said.The big cat was first spotted on camera installed near a farmhouse around 4:30 am. It...

Jaipur, March 8 A tigress was found dead in the Khandar range of the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan's Sawai Madhopur district on Sunday, according to forest officials.The tigress, T-94, was about 10 years old.Manas Singh, Deputy Director and Deputy Conservator of Forests, Ranthambore...

Lakhimpur Kheri (UP), March 8 A female leopard was captured in the southern Nighasan forest range of the Dudhwa National Park's buffer zone, officials said on Sunday.The leopard's movements were reported near Govindnagar Farm and Biharipurwa since Thursday, and it had killed a dog and some...

Tadoba National Park (Maharashtra), March 8 There was a time when the extinction of tigers was predicted in India; the number of this big cat in this national park had reduced to just 30 a decade ago. Conservation efforts reversed the trend, and today Tadoba and its neighboring area have 200...

Tadoba National Park (Maharashtra), March 8 The evening air, thick with anticipation, was broken by what sounded like a bark. To our untrained ears, it was just another jungle sound.But to our guide Santosh, who was in the front seat of our open-top Gypsy, it was a signal he had been waiting...

Seoni (MP), March 7 'Langdi', one of the oldest and best-known tigresses of the Pench Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, died on Saturday due to old age, forest officials said.Born in 2008, the tigress, identified as PN-20 (T-20), was approximately 18 years old and was among the oldest in the...

Guwahati, March 7 A black bear has been spotted roaming freely in a natural habitat within the Rani Reserve Forest in Assam's Kamrup district, "demonstrating the effectiveness" of wildlife conservation efforts, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Saturday.The sighting was captured on...

Rudraprayag (Uttarakhand), March 6 Fourteen people were arrested here on Friday for allegedly poaching Himalayan barking deer, officials said.They said the accused were arrested while they were preparing to cook the deer, which had been hunted on Thursday.Rudraprayag's Sub-Divisional Forest...

Latehar (Jharkhand), March 6 An elderly man was killed by a wild elephant in Latehar district, Jharkhand, a forest official said on Friday.The incident occurred around 10 pm on Thursday in Bhandar Toli village, under the Chandwa Police Station, when he went outside his house to relieve...

Alappuzha (Kerala), March 5 One of the three elephants brought for a temple festival near Nooranad in this coastal district became violent the previous night, injuring its mahout and damaging several vehicles, police said on Thursday.The jumbo was later sedated by wildlife officials and...

Lakhimpur Kheri (UP), March 3 The carcass of a male tiger was recovered from a sugarcane field near a village in the South Kheri forest division here on Monday, officials said.Divisional Forest Officer, South Kheri, Tapas Mihir told

Lakhimpur Kheri (UP), March 3 A 14-year-old boy was killed in a leopard attack in the buffer zone of the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve here on Monday night, officials said.The body was recovered Tuesday morning near a railway track near Khairatiya village in the north Nighasan range of Dudhwa...

Khunti, March 2 A sub-adult elephant, which fell into a 20-foot well, was rescued after a three-hour operation in Khunti district, Jharkhand, on Monday, a forest department official said.The incident occurred at the Serengdih village, under the Sadar police station, around midday."After a...

Ranchi, March 2 – A man was killed on Monday after a wild elephant wandered into a residential area near the Ratu police station, on the outskirts of Ranchi.The incident has caused panic among residents in nearby areas.The incident occurred in Pali village, where the elephant attacked and...

Ranchi, March 2 A man was killed by a wild elephant in Ranchi district, Jharkhand, on Monday, police said.The incident occurred in Chitrakota village, under the Ratu police station, about 18 km from the capital city of Ranchi."A wild elephant killed a man in Chitrakota village around 9:30...