Odisha has begun a seven-month fishing ban to protect the Olive Ridley turtles that arrive on its coast every winter, in a season when the mass nesting that normally defines its beaches failed to appear earlier this year.
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A forest sanctuary in eastern Rajasthan is turning out to hold tigers with cubs alongside nearly 30 identified leopards, a combination that conservationists say makes it a key site for helping the state’s tigers recover.
A hyena has been sighted in Uttarakhand’s Corbett Tiger Reserve for the first time in recent years, an animal that had been feared lost from the reserve altogether.
The first scientific survey of snow leopards in Jammu and Kashmir has found at least 21 adults, giving conservationists a count to monitor the cat against in future.
The Wildlife Conservation Trust has released a free, offline species-recognition model that identifies 40 kinds of Central Indian wildlife in camera-trap photographs with 97.3 per cent accuracy, aimed at students, researchers and forest officers working on tight budgets.
Researchers have shown that the urine and scat tigers and leopards leave behind carry chemical clues to an animal’s species, sex, age and reproductive state, details that camera traps often miss.
A tiger cub rescued near Kaziranga broke out of its forest department holding crate and disappeared on 19 September, leaving pugmarks four days later as the first solid evidence that it is surviving alone in the wild.
A camera trap in Kuno National Park has photographed a caracal — India’s most critically endangered wild cat — for the first time in decades. The sighting is remarkable. What it means for the species is more complicated.
For the first time in decades, Rajasthan’s Chittorgarh forest department shifted its annual wildlife census to an evening start — running through the night by moonlight and camera trap — because May daytime temperatures have become unworkable.
A snow leopard was captured on camera in Lahaul-Spiti’s Miyar valley, making it the first instance when the […]