Odisha’s police Special Task Force and the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau have opened a joint investigation into how five orphaned orangutans ended up abandoned in a forest near Balasore, after CCTV cameras picked up a black SUV near the rescue site the night before villagers found them.
Author: IWN
A wild elephant is moving through the Marangi-Bakiyal forest block near Numaligarh, in Assam’s Golaghat district, with an old tyre wedged tightly around its neck.
A leopard that forest officials believed was unconscious after being hit by a vehicle near Davanagere sprang awake mid-rescue on Tuesday and attacked the official trying to tranquillise it.
Vantara will not be able to bring a new animal onto its Jamnagar campus without written approval from a five-person council with no seat for anyone who works there.
Forest patrol teams in Odisha’s Balasore district found five orangutan babies in the Bichitrapur forest area, under Bhograi block, on 8 September.
India’s tiger reserves have a new financial backer: the Asian Development Bank.
India’s environment minister used a visit to a Haryana vulture breeding centre this week to make a national case for more Vulture Safe Zones.
Hotels and safari operators around Jawai can no longer sell a stay on the promise of a leopard sighting.
A crocodile that wandered into a labourers’ camp on the outskirts of Tiruchi has been caught and released back into the wild by the Tamil Nadu Forest Department and Tamil Nadu Fire and Rescue Services.
Scientists have named a newly discovered frog species from Tripura’s Jampui Hills after Padmini Varkey, a Kerala woman known to generations of Thiruvananthapuram students and activists simply as Ammachi.