Lab results from Jabalpur have confirmed canine distemper virus killed tigress T-141 and her four cubs at Kanha. The NTCA has had a stray dog vaccination mandate in place since 2020. Questions now turn to prevention.
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Kanha’s meadows did not maintain themselves. Four wild buffaloes from Kaziranga may be the beginning of a different answer.
On 3 May 2026, a man was killed by a leopard in Kumeria village in Uttarakhand. The attack happened in daylight. It was not the first such death this year.
India’s land records classify open grasslands as “wasteland” because they carry no trees. That single word is why the Great Indian Bustard is disappearing, why the blackbuck needs reintroduction programmes, and why the cheetah has no secured wild habitat to return to.
An eight-year-old tigress and her entire litter of four cubs died within nine days at Kanha Tiger Reserve’s Sarhi range in Madhya Pradesh, in what wildlife officials fear may be the reserve’s first Canine Distemper Virus outbreak in over a decade.
The Phato zone entry gate is named after a Van Gujjar settlement. On a December morning, what we saw on the road beyond it raised questions that no gate, and no permit, is currently equipped to answer.
Two Indian women win the Whitley Awards 2026 — the Green Oscars of conservation — for saving the Indian skimmer and the Himalayan salamander. Plus: Ahmedabad launches its first-ever monkey census, and the week’s wildlife news in brief.
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On International Leopard Day 2026, IWN looks at India’s most misunderstood big cat — 13,874 individuals counted, thousands living outside protected areas, and a country still figuring out how to share space with them.
In the dynamic world of Indian wildlife documentary filmmaking, pioneers like Mike Pandey, Shekar Dattatri, and Sandesh Kadur forged new paths from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s. Their compelling narratives sparked environmental change, influenced policies, and celebrated India’s rich biodiversity, proving the transformative power of visual storytelling in conservation.