DRI officers intercepted two suspects near Pune Railway Station on May 20, recovering three live Malabar giant squirrels and seven Indian star tortoises — both protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act.
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A tiger found dead in Goa with teeth and claws missing. A leopard strangled in a wire snare in Odisha. A lion cub killed on a Gujarat highway. An elephant shot and mutilated at the Assam–Meghalaya border. And another elephant dead from a suspected Maoist IED in Jharkhand’s Saranda forest. Five incidents, five species, one fortnight.
Forest officials in Karnataka’s Shivamogga seized 45 country-made explosive devices from a habitual poacher on 19 April 2026. Here’s what handi bombs are, how they work, and why they’re one of the most dangerous threats to Indian wildlife.
Kanha is renowned as home to one of the largest population of tigers in the wild. Yet, when […]
The government in the hill state of Uttarakhand removed the director of Corbett Tiger Reserve, within days after […]
Armed poachers will be shot at sight in the Corbett Tiger Reserve, according to an order issued by […]