The Wildlife Conservation Trust has retold how two British artists sketched a wild male rhinoceros at Kotdwar on 20 April 1789, evidence that the Great Indian Rhinoceros once lived in what is now Uttarakhand.
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Himalayan monals at the busy tourist spot of Chopta call at a higher pitch than those in the quieter Madmaheshwar Valley, according to research from Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University that BBC News highlighted on Tuesday.
A leopard that broke into a house in Himachal Pradesh’s Sirmaur district on Friday, going after a dog inside, stayed trapped in the room for the next 36 hours before forest officials could safely tranquillise and release it back into the wild on Sunday.
A second villager injured in an August jackal attack in Jharkhand’s Bokaro district has died, 36 days after the bite and despite receiving anti-rabies vaccination, leaving ten other injured villagers demanding a fresh medical review before anyone else falls ill.
Seven predator-proof livestock corrals built from local stone, mud and chain-link fencing by herders in Ladakh’s Sumdo have kept snow leopards and wolves out for two straight years, a turnaround from a six-month spell in 2020 that cost the settlement more than 100 sheep and goats across a dozen separate attacks.
Three weeks of India wildlife news, distilled: a landmark trafficking bust rescuing 440+ animals, cheetahs getting a third home at Nauradehi, a Great Indian Bustard chick surviving 40 days in Kutch, the Gir lion structural crisis, wild water buffalo returning to Kanha after a century, and early AITE 2026 tiger census results.
White-rumped vultures have returned to Himachal Pradesh state’s Kangra district, advertising the flying success of the state’s conservation […]