India has rescheduled the first International Big Cat Alliance Summit, originally set for June 1 in New Delhi, after the India-Africa Forum Summit was deferred amid the Ebola outbreak in Africa.
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India’s environment ministry has announced five thematic conservation events — one for each wild big cat species — across the country ahead of the International Big Cat Alliance Summit in New Delhi on 1 June 2026. The countdown to the Delhi Declaration has officially begun.
Four one-month-old cubs of female cheetah KGP12 — born in the wild on April 11 — were found dead near their den site in Sheopur on May 12. The Cheetah Project says the mother is safe, and India’s total cheetah count now stands at 53.
A tiger does not shout its tigritude. — Wole Soyinka
The first IBCA Summit will be held in New Delhi on 1–2 June 2026. The key outcome: the Delhi Declaration on big cat conservation. IWN on what it needs to say.
On International Leopard Day 2026, IWN looks at India’s most misunderstood big cat — 13,874 individuals counted, thousands living outside protected areas, and a country still figuring out how to share space with them.
In February 2026, nine cheetahs flew from Botswana to India on an Indian Air Force aircraft, becoming the […]
Kuno National Park now houses 50 cheetahs — and the scramble to find them more room is well underway.