A thread by a wildlife conservationist is going viral on X, claiming that Uttarakhand forest officials have issued orders to kill leopards and bears found responsible for fatal attacks on people.
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On International Tiger Day, Maharashtra put its money where its reserves are.
India marks International Tiger Day on Wednesday. Two days out, the running tally of this year’s big cat deaths tells its own story.
In December 2024, Zeenat the tigress crossed three states and eluded capture for three weeks. This July, she’s raising four cubs in Similipal — and rewriting how her journey gets told.
A male hoolock gibbon has used an artificial canopy bridge over a railway line in Assam — the first documented instance anywhere in the world of a gibbon crossing a railway canopy structure. Meanwhile, 22 days after four cheetah cubs were found dead at Kuno, the post-mortem findings remain unpublished.
Seven Asiatic lions have died in Gujarat’s Gir landscape in ten days. Five tigers and their cubs died in Madhya Pradesh’s Kanha from CDV. India’s big cats are facing disease pressure on two fronts simultaneously — and in both cases, the warnings have been on record for years.
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.
The nilgai is India’s largest antelope, one of its most widely distributed large mammals, and possibly its most politically contested. In Bihar it is protected by religious sentiment. In Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh it has been declared vermin. The same animal, under the same law, treated in entirely opposite ways depending on where it stands.
Two separate mining proposals in Chandrapur district, Maharashtra — one for iron ore, one for coal — are moving through India’s wildlife clearance system. Both affect forest land in the Brahmapuri division, a corridor that connects Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve with forests across Gadchiroli, Nawegaon-Nagzira, and Chhattisgarh. Here is what the facts say.
There are 106 national parks in India. For a first-timer, the choice is not just about which animal you want to see — it’s about which landscape will make you fall in love with Indian wildlife. Here are five parks that do exactly that.