India announced the launch of Project Rhino on Tuesday, a new scheme of central funding and technical support for the states that shelter India’s greater one-horned rhinos, arriving as Assam — home to roughly four-fifths of the world’s population — closed out 2025 with zero confirmed poaching deaths.
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A herd of nine elephants, including two calves, wandered out of Bhimgad Wildlife Sanctuary and into the paddy fields around Khanapur taluk this week, in what officials say is the first elephant movement ever recorded in the Belagavi Forest Division.
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.
India has close to 30 species of freshwater turtles and tortoises. Seventeen of them carry Schedule I protection under the Wildlife Protection Act — the same schedule that covers tigers. Most people have never heard of a single one.
As many as 110 Gangetic dolphins have been sighted by officials while mapping the River Ganges along a […]