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.
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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.
Three days before India marks International Tiger Day, three separate high-level wildlife meetings took place in the same city, each announcing a policy move of its own.
No animal in India is more seen, more photographed, or more taken for granted than the chital. That is precisely why it deserves a closer look.
A new peer-reviewed study finds that tourism roads elevate stress hormones in wild tigers across Indian reserves, and tigresses may be choosing quieter zones for breeding.