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.
A thread by a wildlife conservationist is going viral on X, claiming that Uttarakhand forest officials have issued orders to kill leopards and bears found responsible for fatal attacks on people.
Odisha switched on a new command centre for its forests on 22 July, built to watch over the state’s parks, sanctuaries and elephant corridors in something close to real time.
Scientists have discovered three new spider species in India this July: one in a cave in Meghalaya, one in a forest canopy in Andhra Pradesh, and one in a stretch of grassland in Maharashtra.
A gharial went missing in Rajasthan’s canal network in March. It took two forest departments, three sightings and five months of patient tracking to bring it home.
On International Tiger Day, Maharashtra put its money where its reserves are.
Two orphaned leopard cat kittens, hand-raised from infancy by vets in Assam, took their first steps back towards a wild life this week — into an acclimatisation enclosure in Raimona National Park, with no radio collars and about a month left before the door opens for good.
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.