Uttarakhand’s Corbett landscape will host its first literary festival this October.
A tiger cub rescued near Kaziranga broke out of its forest department holding crate and disappeared on 19 September, leaving pugmarks four days later as the first solid evidence that it is surviving alone in the wild.
India’s Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change told delegates from more than 100 countries in Jaipur that India’s Ramsar-listed wetlands have grown from 24 to 101 in a decade.
Twenty-seven international wildlife organisations have written to Vantara demanding that its year-long pause on importing wild animals become permanent, arriving weeks before the Gujarat megazoo’s response to a CITES verification mission is taken up in Geneva.
A wild bull elephant found with a suspected spear wound and a clouded left eye near a tea estate in Assam’s Sonitpur district a month ago is still under treatment, with vets tracking whether his eyesight will come back.
A wild tusker with a long history of raiding villages near Panniyar in Idukki killed a 47-year-old tribal man in the small hours of Wednesday, an attack sharp enough that the Kerala Forest and Wildlife Department has now promised to relocate the animal out of the region.
India announced the launch of Project Rhino on Tuesday, a new scheme of central funding and technical support for the states that shelter India’s greater one-horned rhinos, arriving as Assam — home to roughly four-fifths of the world’s population — closed out 2025 with zero confirmed poaching deaths.
An elephant named Bharat spent two days refusing to leave the spot in Rewa district, Madhya Pradesh, where his companion died of electrocution, forcing the state’s Forest Department to bring in four tuskers from two tiger reserves before he could be safely captured.
Gaurav, one of the eight Namibian cheetahs that founded India’s cheetah reintroduction programme in 2022, died at Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh on Monday, four days after an India-born cheetah at the same reserve gave birth to a second litter, having lost her first four cubs to suspected predation in May.
Two of Maharashtra’s tiger reserves have turned out to be among the best places in India to release captive-bred vultures, with survival rates reaching as high as 78 per cent — a result landing just as the government pushes states to open up more Vulture Safe Zones nationwide.
A leopard that broke into a house in Himachal Pradesh’s Sirmaur district on Friday, going after a dog inside, stayed trapped in the room for the next 36 hours before forest officials could safely tranquillise and release it back into the wild on Sunday.