🐯 Indian Wildlife Quiz
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Karnataka has lost 15 tigers, 13 leopards, and 19 people to human-wildlife conflict in six months. The state’s answer is to sterilise wild animals. The science — and the logic of what is actually driving conflict — says this is the wrong answer entirely.
Between October 2025 and April 2026, Karnataka lost 15 tigers, 13 leopards, 8 elephants, and 19 people to the widening fault line between humans and wildlife. Now the state is proposing to sterilise wild animals — and the science says that’s not the answer.
The Chousingha is the only living animal in the world with four horns. It lives in India’s dry forests, weighs less than a medium-sized dog, and is classified as Vulnerable — yet most Indians have never heard of it.
India is famous for its tigers and elephants. But its forests, grasslands, and high-altitude plateaus are also home to one of the world’s most extraordinary collections of deer and antelope — many of them little known, some of them barely hanging on.
A tiger filmed at the entrance to Garjiya Devi Temple on the fringes of Corbett is a remarkable image. It is also part of a pattern playing out across India’s forests — where ancient faith and modern wildlife conservation are sharing space in ways that neither was designed to manage.
Early data from India’s 2026 tiger census shows something remarkable: tigers are no longer just passing through forests outside protected areas. They are staying.
A Bengal tiger has been photographed for the first time inside Dibru Saikhowa National Park in Assam — a moment decades in the making.
Wildlife jobs are rare. This one sits at the intersection of birds, citizen science, and conservation — and the deadline is 15 April 2026.
When People and Wildlife Share a Border: IUCN Publishes Global Guidelines on Human-Wildlife Conflict
A global framework for navigating the oldest tension in conservation — and India, where elephants killed 629 people last year, may need it more than anywhere.