A camera trap at Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve has photographed the rusty-spotted cat for the first time — Asia’s smallest wild cat, confirmed in Madhya Pradesh’s newest and largest tiger reserve.
In 1967, there were just 66 barasingha left in Kanha. All of them lived in one meadow in that forest. This is how India pulled its most improbable deer back from the edge.
India inaugurated the Delhi–Dehradun Expressway today. A joint NHAI–WII study shows 18 wild species — including elephants — are already using its underpasses. The real test begins now.
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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.