Maharashtra’s GR No. SAVVI-2025/PR.KR.11/VANE-11, issued on 7 May 2026, explicitly prohibits tree planting in grasslands and wetlands — the first time a government resolution has put this in writing at scale. The same order that launched a 300-crore plantation drive also protects the ecosystems most at risk from it.
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A viral video of an elephant scavenging through plastic waste in Karnataka’s MM Hills is not an isolated incident — it’s part of a documented pattern that has already killed at least one elephant this year, and the same habituation behind it carries a slower, less visible risk to people too.
Northern Karnataka’s Bagalkote district is not a name that usually appears in wildlife headlines. No tiger reserve, no national park, no flagship species drawing safaris and camera crews.
On 14 June 2026, forest officials in North Sikkim filmed a herd of eight Mishmi takins — the first video evidence of the species in the state, and one of the most significant confirmed records in over two decades.
Manas National Park and Tiger Reserve has recorded zero rhino and tiger poaching for three consecutive years, according to Assam’s Chief Minister. Officials attributed the result to intensified anti-poaching operations, increased deployment of forest personnel, modern surveillance technologies, intelligence-led enforcement, and active community participation.
This figure comes from an announcement by the Chief Minister’s office via social media and has not been independently verified.
Sources: Deccan Chronicle, Republic World, Northeast Today · 16–17 June 2026
This post is an aggregated summary. India Wildlife News directs readers to the original sources above and does not independently report or verify the figures cited.
India’s Western Ghats draw thousands of photographers each monsoon season in search of pit vipers, cobras and endemic frogs. A King Cobra trafficking arrest in Kodagu and a peer-reviewed study documenting the disappearance of galaxy frogs from a research site suggest the cost to the animals is real and rising.
Delhi’s first comprehensive Bird Atlas records 471 bird species in the capital — including endangered and threatened birds — placing it second only to Nairobi among world capitals for avian diversity.
Thirty-five calves. That’s the number a decade of tracking has produced from a rhino population that did not exist in Assam’s Manas National Park twenty-five years ago — because poachers had wiped it out entirely.
A landmark DNA study traces pangolin trafficking routes to Northeast India. An Assam conservationist wins the National Geographic Wayfinder Award for saving the greater adjutant stork. And the wetlands of Thoothukudi are alive with common coots — a quiet signal of ecological recovery.
A camera trap in Kuno National Park has photographed a caracal — India’s most critically endangered wild cat — for the first time in decades. The sighting is remarkable. What it means for the species is more complicated.