IWN Original Report — Saturday, 18 April 2026 India’s highways are expanding at a pace its wildlife cannot […]
human-wildlife conflict
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.
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.
When People and Wildlife Share a Border: IUCN Publishes Global Guidelines on Human-Wildlife Conflict
A global framework for navigating the oldest tension in conservation — and India, where elephants killed 629 people last year, may need it more than anywhere.