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.
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.
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.
It is the kind of moment that even the most seasoned wildlife photographer would call a dream. On […]
India’s relationship with its wildlife has always been deeply emotional — spiritual, even. This survey covers the most significant feature films in Indian cinema that centre on wildlife, conservation, and the human-animal bond.
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.