Eight South Asian governments adopted a joint declaration in Kathmandu committing to share intelligence and trace the money behind wildlife trafficking networks, days after Indian customs officers wrapped up a ten-day sweep across five states.
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A tiger killed a 65-year-old farmer in Chamarajanagar district’s Badagalapura village on Monday evening, and by Tuesday morning villagers were refusing to let the Forest Department move his body until they had a firm promise of compensation and a government job for his family.
A court in Assam has handed down the 11th wildlife crime conviction connected to Manas Tiger Reserve, according to the Wildlife Trust of India — capping a legal effort that traces back to 2011.
Anti-poaching patrollers in Bandhavgarh are facing a monsoon threat that has nothing to do with poachers this year: venomous snakes climbing into patrolling huts to escape the rain.
India’s tiger reserves have a new financial backer: the Asian Development Bank.
The Guwahati-based conservation group Aaranyak has weighed in on the fight over how large a protective buffer should surround Kaziranga National Park, as Assam moves to shrink the zone from its current 10 kilometres down to as little as one.
A tiger has killed a second person within a fortnight near Gudalur, in Tamil Nadu’s Nilgiris district, and the state forest department has put three thermal drones, six cages and around fifty camera traps into the search for it.
Arunachal Pradesh has never had a Ramsar site. It has one now.
Odisha switched on a new command centre for its forests on 22 July, built to watch over the state’s parks, sanctuaries and elephant corridors in something close to real time.
IWN has been covering India’s tigers since 2015. On International Tiger Day 2026, a curated roundup of the pieces that matter most — organised by theme.