Saket Badola, field director of Corbett Tiger Reserve, has announced he is retiring voluntarily from the Indian Forest Service at mid-career, citing personal grounds.
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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.
Corbett Tiger Reserve has published a programme for Wildlife Week running from 1 to 7 October, with a cyclothon, school debates on corridors and eco-tourism, clean-up drives and panel discussions across Ramnagar, Kalagarh and Kotdwar.
Several of India’s best-known tiger reserves reopen their core zones on 1 October after the monsoon. Expect tall grass, full waterholes and a greener forest, and don’t count on a wave of new cubs just because the rains are over.
On Friday, the National Tiger Conservation Authority and the Wildlife Institute of India opened the sixth cycle of a report card they’ve kept on India’s tiger reserves since 2006, and for the first time, reserves will be marked on how they handle their own rubbish.
Gujarat marked National Forest Martyrs’ Day on Friday by handing ₹50 lakh to the family of Vikas Desai, the Vyara range forest officer killed in July while chasing down a truck loaded with stolen timber.
A thread by a wildlife conservationist is going viral on X, claiming that Uttarakhand forest officials have issued orders to kill leopards and bears found responsible for fatal attacks on people.
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.
The Phato zone entry gate is named after a Van Gujjar settlement. On a December morning, what we saw on the road beyond it raised questions that no gate, and no permit, is currently equipped to answer.
When you are in the jungle and the tiger is near, you don’t need a philosophy. You just need silence. — Jim Corbett