The sambar is India’s largest deer, the tiger’s most important prey across much of its range, and one of the least-watched large mammals in the Indian forest. Its invisibility is almost entirely intentional.
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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.
A new field report from Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh, finds a thriving tiger and leopard population in a forest that is not a tiger reserve, not a national park, and not protected in any formal sense. The findings are remarkable. So is the problem buried within them.
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.
Researchers looking to learn about the territory controlled by wild dogs may finally have their answer — around 85 […]