Gujarat marked National Forest Martyrs’ Day on Friday by handing ₹50 lakh to the family of Vikas Desai, the Vyara range forest officer killed in July while chasing down a truck loaded with stolen timber.
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India’s tiger reserves have a new financial backer: the Asian Development Bank.
India’s environment minister used a visit to a Haryana vulture breeding centre this week to make a national case for more Vulture Safe Zones.
The Guwahati-based conservation group Aaranyak has weighed in on the fight over how large a protective buffer should surround Kaziranga National Park, as Assam moves to shrink the zone from its current 10 kilometres down to as little as one.
India has published its first dedicated guide to the grasslands, deserts, ravines and scrublands that government paperwork has spent decades filing under “wasteland.”
Arunachal Pradesh has never had a Ramsar site. It has one now.
Gujarat’s forest department has begun fencing 100 hectares of Ambardi Safari Park to house Asiatic lions that have attacked people.
Five Indian states now have their own paper trail of where elephants and people collide most often, and why.
Three days before India marks International Tiger Day, three separate high-level wildlife meetings took place in the same city, each announcing a policy move of its own.
India has rescheduled the first International Big Cat Alliance Summit, originally set for June 1 in New Delhi, after the India-Africa Forum Summit was deferred amid the Ebola outbreak in Africa.