Two separate mining proposals in Chandrapur district, Maharashtra — one for iron ore, one for coal — are moving through India’s wildlife clearance system. Both affect forest land in the Brahmapuri division, a corridor that connects Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve with forests across Gadchiroli, Nawegaon-Nagzira, and Chhattisgarh. Here is what the facts say.
Author: poojaparvati
Karnataka has ended open-vehicle wildlife safaris across all its tiger reserves and wildlife sanctuaries. The announcement, made by Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre, is the latest in a series of safety measures following two years of escalating leopard and tiger attacks on visitors and forest-fringe communities.
There are 106 national parks in India. For a first-timer, the choice is not just about which animal you want to see — it’s about which landscape will make you fall in love with Indian wildlife. Here are five parks that do exactly that.
India’s biodiversity does not sort itself neatly by species. It sorts itself by landscape.
A tiger found dead in Goa with teeth and claws missing. A leopard strangled in a wire snare in Odisha. A lion cub killed on a Gujarat highway. An elephant shot and mutilated at the Assam–Meghalaya border. And another elephant dead from a suspected Maoist IED in Jharkhand’s Saranda forest. Five incidents, five species, one fortnight.
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.
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.