IWN Report — Saturday, 31 October 2026

A forest sanctuary in eastern Rajasthan is turning out to hold tigers with cubs alongside nearly 30 identified leopards, a combination that conservationists say makes it a key site for helping the state’s tigers recover.

WWF-India, the conservation organisation, carried out the study with the Rajasthan Forest Department in Kailadevi Wildlife Sanctuary, in the Karauli region north-east of Ranthambore National Park. According to WWF-India’s press release, dated 16 October 2026, the findings identify the sanctuary as a stronghold for tiger recovery and wildlife conservation in Rajasthan.

The work rests on a camera-trap survey that ran from late November 2023 to early February 2024, using 186 usable camera stations. Those cameras recorded 27 species of mammal, according to published summaries of the report.

The same summaries put the number of individual leopards identified at 29, at a density of 3.65 animals per 100 square kilometres. They also report three adult tigers in the sanctuary, together with cubs, though the cub count differs between them: Utkarsh Classes gives eight over the past five years, while Clarity UPSC cites five in the report’s 2024–25 records.

Fieldwork for the survey finished in February 2024, so the figures are more than two and a half years old.

Sources: WWF-India press release (16 October 2026) · Utkarsh Classes summary · Clarity UPSC summary