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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Two Botswana female cheetahs released at Kuno today bring Project Cheetah’s count to 57. But the real story is Madhya Pradesh’s wider conservation push — new tiger reserves, elephant plans, vulture rehabilitation, and a compensation overhaul.
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.
Lab results from Jabalpur have confirmed canine distemper virus killed tigress T-141 and her four cubs at Kanha. The NTCA has had a stray dog vaccination mandate in place since 2020. Questions now turn to prevention.
Kanha’s meadows did not maintain themselves. Four wild buffaloes from Kaziranga may be the beginning of a different answer.
On 3 May 2026, a man was killed by a leopard in Kumeria village in Uttarakhand. The attack happened in daylight. It was not the first such death this year.
India’s land records classify open grasslands as “wasteland” because they carry no trees. That single word is why the Great Indian Bustard is disappearing, why the blackbuck needs reintroduction programmes, and why the cheetah has no secured wild habitat to return to.