At its lowest point, fewer than 200 hangul survived on earth. All of them in one national park on the outskirts of Srinagar. The hangul is India’s most endangered deer, the state animal of Jammu and Kashmir, and the only survivor of a subspecies of red deer that once ranged across the length of the western Himalayas. It is, very slowly, coming back.
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A tiger found dead in Goa with teeth and claws missing. A leopard strangled in a wire snare in Odisha. A lion cub killed on a Gujarat highway. An elephant shot and mutilated at the Assam–Meghalaya border. And another elephant dead from a suspected Maoist IED in Jharkhand’s Saranda forest. Five incidents, five species, one fortnight.
As temperatures breach 45°C across India in April 2026, the country’s wildlife is facing acute stress — from birds falling mid-flight to elephants shifting migration routes. Here’s what the heat means for India’s wild.
In early April 2026, a rogue elephant held responsible for the deaths of two people was captured near […]
Indian Elephant Quiz — Test Your Knowledge
From tusks to territory — how much do you know? · 10 questions · Multiple choice
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India inaugurated the Delhi–Dehradun Expressway today. A joint NHAI–WII study shows 18 wild species — including elephants — are already using its underpasses. The real test begins now.
Karnataka has lost 15 tigers, 13 leopards, and 19 people to human-wildlife conflict in six months. The state’s answer is to sterilise wild animals. The science — and the logic of what is actually driving conflict — says this is the wrong answer entirely.
Between October 2025 and April 2026, Karnataka lost 15 tigers, 13 leopards, 8 elephants, and 19 people to the widening fault line between humans and wildlife. Now the state is proposing to sterilise wild animals — and the science says that’s not the answer.
Elephants are imprinted in my earliest memory as the first animal I ever truly saw. That great pachyderm […]
Elephant corridors have been squeezed and their paths cut-off