A hyena has been sighted in Uttarakhand’s Corbett Tiger Reserve for the first time in recent years, an animal that had been feared lost from the reserve altogether.
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The Wildlife Conservation Trust has retold how two British artists sketched a wild male rhinoceros at Kotdwar on 20 April 1789, evidence that the Great Indian Rhinoceros once lived in what is now Uttarakhand.
Himalayan monals at the busy tourist spot of Chopta call at a higher pitch than those in the quieter Madmaheshwar Valley, according to research from Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University that BBC News highlighted on Tuesday.
Corbett Tiger Reserve has published a programme for Wildlife Week running from 1 to 7 October, with a cyclothon, school debates on corridors and eco-tourism, clean-up drives and panel discussions across Ramnagar, Kalagarh and Kotdwar.
Several of India’s best-known tiger reserves reopen their core zones on 1 October after the monsoon. Expect tall grass, full waterholes and a greener forest, and don’t count on a wave of new cubs just because the rains are over.
Uttarakhand’s Corbett landscape will host its first literary festival this October.
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.
Hotels and safari operators around Jawai can no longer sell a stay on the promise of a leopard sighting.
Wildlife Trust of India has switched on a WhatsApp-based elephant alert network in a Uttarakhand village. In West Bengal, the state’s forest minister attended a meeting on securing elephant corridors through the region’s tea gardens.
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.