Fishing boats on the Tamil Nadu coast are landing fewer adult devil rays than they did in the early 2010s, which matters because these animals produce roughly one pup every two to three years.
Nandankanan Zoological Park
Odisha’s police Special Task Force and the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau have opened a joint investigation into how five orphaned orangutans ended up abandoned in a forest near Balasore, after CCTV cameras picked up a black SUV near the rescue site the night before villagers found them.
Forest patrol teams in Odisha’s Balasore district found five orangutan babies in the Bichitrapur forest area, under Bhograi block, on 8 September.