IWN has been covering India’s tigers since 2015. On International Tiger Day 2026, a curated roundup of the pieces that matter most — organised by theme.
India’s relationship between storytelling and animals is older than almost anything else in the literary record. Part 8 of 8: animation, the Panchatantra, the Jataka Tales, and the wildlife film India has not yet made for its children.
Three days before India marks International Tiger Day, three separate high-level wildlife meetings took place in the same city, each announcing a policy move of its own.
India marks International Tiger Day on Wednesday. Two days out, the running tally of this year’s big cat deaths tells its own story.
In December 2024, Zeenat the tigress crossed three states and eluded capture for three weeks. This July, she’s raising four cubs in Similipal — and rewriting how her journey gets told.
Three weeks of India wildlife news, distilled: a landmark trafficking bust rescuing 440+ animals, cheetahs getting a third home at Nauradehi, a Great Indian Bustard chick surviving 40 days in Kutch, the Gir lion structural crisis, wild water buffalo returning to Kanha after a century, and early AITE 2026 tiger census results.
Maharashtra’s GR No. SAVVI-2025/PR.KR.11/VANE-11, issued on 7 May 2026, explicitly prohibits tree planting in grasslands and wetlands — the first time a government resolution has put this in writing at scale. The same order that launched a 300-crore plantation drive also protects the ecosystems most at risk from it.
A viral video of an elephant scavenging through plastic waste in Karnataka’s MM Hills is not an isolated incident — it’s part of a documented pattern that has already killed at least one elephant this year, and the same habituation behind it carries a slower, less visible risk to people too.
Northern Karnataka’s Bagalkote district is not a name that usually appears in wildlife headlines. No tiger reserve, no national park, no flagship species drawing safaris and camera crews.
In the Thar Desert of western Rajasthan, blackbuck graze at the edge of villages the way cattle do elsewhere. They do not run. They have learned, over five centuries, that they do not need to.