Hotels and safari operators around Jawai can no longer sell a stay on the promise of a leopard sighting.
A court in Assam has handed down the 11th wildlife crime conviction connected to Manas Tiger Reserve, according to the Wildlife Trust of India — capping a legal effort that traces back to 2011.
Wildlife SOS says its three-decade programme to move India’s Kalandar community away from the “dancing bear” trade has now reached more than 25,000 families, a milestone the organisation marked this week with a new corporate award.
Gujarat marked National Forest Martyrs’ Day on Friday by handing ₹50 lakh to the family of Vikas Desai, the Vyara range forest officer killed in July while chasing down a truck loaded with stolen timber.
Anti-poaching patrollers in Bandhavgarh are facing a monsoon threat that has nothing to do with poachers this year: venomous snakes climbing into patrolling huts to escape the rain.
Odisha’s police Special Task Force and the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau have opened a joint investigation into how five orphaned orangutans ended up abandoned in a forest near Balasore, after CCTV cameras picked up a black SUV near the rescue site the night before villagers found them.
A wild elephant is moving through the Marangi-Bakiyal forest block near Numaligarh, in Assam’s Golaghat district, with an old tyre wedged tightly around its neck.
A leopard that forest officials believed was unconscious after being hit by a vehicle near Davanagere sprang awake mid-rescue on Tuesday and attacked the official trying to tranquillise it.
Vantara will not be able to bring a new animal onto its Jamnagar campus without written approval from a five-person council with no seat for anyone who works there.
Forest patrol teams in Odisha’s Balasore district found five orangutan babies in the Bichitrapur forest area, under Bhograi block, on 8 September.
India’s tiger reserves have a new financial backer: the Asian Development Bank.