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.
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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.
Two Indian women win the Whitley Awards 2026 — the Green Oscars of conservation — for saving the Indian skimmer and the Himalayan salamander. Plus: Ahmedabad launches its first-ever monkey census, and the week’s wildlife news in brief.
On International Leopard Day 2026, IWN looks at India’s most misunderstood big cat — 13,874 individuals counted, thousands living outside protected areas, and a country still figuring out how to share space with them.
In February 2026, nine cheetahs flew from Botswana to India on an Indian Air Force aircraft, becoming the […]
In early April 2026, a rogue elephant held responsible for the deaths of two people was captured near […]
IWN Original Report — Saturday, 18 April 2026 India’s highways are expanding at a pace its wildlife cannot […]
Madhya Pradesh takes pride in being India’s Tiger State. A new set of numbers suggests it may also be the country’s most dangerous place to be a leopard.
For the first time in a long while, the people who need to answer for India’s tiger deaths went to Bandhavgarh to do it in person.
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.