Young gibbons are being flown towards India in pet carriers and plastic baskets, and a new analysis finds that Indian airports accounted for most of the seizures when the trade peaked last year.
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A spiny seahorse that scientists long treated as a single widespread species has turned out to be three, including one new to science in the Indian Ocean, which means the conservation status of the original species will need another look.
Arignar Anna Zoological Park in Vandalur, Chennai, will turn visitors away on 22 and 23 October 2026 while it carries out sanitation and safety measures following reports of H5N1 bird flu, the zoo has said.
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.
The endangered lion-tailed macaques of the Western Ghats carry roughly twice as many kinds of parasite when they live beside human settlements, many of them species that normally infect cattle, and researchers think the burden may be one reason so few young macaques survive in the region’s shrinking forest patches.
Wildlife SOS says its co-founder and CEO Kartick Satyanarayan has now spent roughly 34 hours under questioning by […]
Almost every temple elephant carries a spray of pale freckles on its trunk and ears. The patches are natural depigmentation, seen in wild herds too, and the myths we attach to elephants say a great deal about how we treat them.
The last four of five young elephants sent from Assam to temples in Tamil Nadu this month reached their new homes late last week, completing a transfer the Gauhati High Court declined to stop but has asked Assam to account for, in a detailed affidavit on the animals’ welfare, before it hears the case again on 15 October.
A mother elephant and her two calves were found dead in a paddy field in Salboni, West Bengal, on Sunday morning, electrocuted by a wire farmers had strung around their fields in one of the state’s most important elephant habitats.
A crocodile that wandered into a labourers’ camp on the outskirts of Tiruchi has been caught and released back into the wild by the Tamil Nadu Forest Department and Tamil Nadu Fire and Rescue Services.