The fourth Uttarakhand Spring Bird Festival will begin at the Nandhaur Wildlife Sanctuary (WLS), about 25 km from […]
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As many as 110 Gangetic dolphins have been sighted by officials while mapping the River Ganges along a […]
Amur falcons, small birds of prey of the falcon family, have been spotted stopping by in Kerala’s Malampuzha […]
Forest officials in India’s Uttar Pradesh have confirmed a new nesting and breeding colony of Sarus Cranes in Etawah, around 300 km from Delhi.
More than a dozen nests, containing two chicks each of the Sarus, which is incidentally the state bird, have been sighted by forest department personnel, ornithologists and wildlife activists in the wetlands and paddy fields of Etawah and Mainpuri districts, the Times of India reports.
This has been the first sighting of nesting and breeding of the bird in Etawah and Mainpuri, Times of India reported, citing forest officials.
“The figure of the number of nests may increase. The counting process of nests is still on as the nesting and breeding season of World’s tallest bird is not yet over,” said divisional forest officer Kanhaiya Patel.
Udaipur Zoo struck a deal with Chennai’s Zoo to trade a pair of wolves to acquire its first […]
WWF-India in collaboration with the Indian Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, the National Tiger Conservation Authority […]
Indian parliament’s upper house today passed a bill — The Compensatory Afforestation Fund Bill, 2016 — that will allow the government to use 400 billion rupees of accumulated funds for conservation, protection, improvement and expansion of forest and wildlife resources of the country.
The Bill was earlier approved by the lower house, Lok Sabha, in May 2016.
The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), set up in 1916 to promote surveys, exploration and research to further understanding of […]
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Gir sanctuary in India’s Gujarat state, home to Asiatic lions, has welcomed 11 cubs in the first piece […]
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