The sambar is India’s largest deer, the tiger’s most important prey across much of its range, and one of the least-watched large mammals in the Indian forest. Its invisibility is almost entirely intentional.
India’s environment ministry has announced five thematic conservation events — one for each wild big cat species — across the country ahead of the International Big Cat Alliance Summit in New Delhi on 1 June 2026. The countdown to the Delhi Declaration has officially begun.
A new field report from Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh, finds a thriving tiger and leopard population in a forest that is not a tiger reserve, not a national park, and not protected in any formal sense. The findings are remarkable. So is the problem buried within them.
Four one-month-old cubs of female cheetah KGP12 — born in the wild on April 11 — were found dead near their den site in Sheopur on May 12. The Cheetah Project says the mother is safe, and India’s total cheetah count now stands at 53.
One of India’s most prominent wildlife conservation organisations has been formally barred from all future work with the Jammu and Kashmir Wildlife Department. IWN has WTI’s response.
Six hundred and twenty-three forest guards. Fourteen divisions and tiger reserves. One system that follows a wildlife crime case from the first FIR all the way to the courtroom.
The most trafficked mammal on earth just got a new line of defence — and it came not from a court order or a government circular, but from a tribal council in the hills of Nagaland.
Two Botswana female cheetahs released at Kuno today bring Project Cheetah’s count to 57. But the real story is Madhya Pradesh’s wider conservation push — new tiger reserves, elephant plans, vulture rehabilitation, and a compensation overhaul.
No animal in India is more seen, more photographed, or more taken for granted than the chital. That is precisely why it deserves a closer look.
A new peer-reviewed study finds that tourism roads elevate stress hormones in wild tigers across Indian reserves, and tigresses may be choosing quieter zones for breeding.