Five Indian states now have their own paper trail of where elephants and people collide most often, and why.
Wildlife Institute of India
Three days before India marks International Tiger Day, three separate high-level wildlife meetings took place in the same city, each announcing a policy move of its own.
Three weeks of India wildlife news, distilled: a landmark trafficking bust rescuing 440+ animals, cheetahs getting a third home at Nauradehi, a Great Indian Bustard chick surviving 40 days in Kutch, the Gir lion structural crisis, wild water buffalo returning to Kanha after a century, and early AITE 2026 tiger census results.
It lives nowhere else on earth except a 40 square kilometre raft of floating vegetation in the middle of a lake in Manipur. Its name, in Meitei folklore, comes from the way it runs — turning its head back towards whoever is chasing it, as if to look them in the eye. And depending on which government survey you read, there are either 260 of them left, or 64.
Thirty-five calves. That’s the number a decade of tracking has produced from a rhino population that did not exist in Assam’s Manas National Park twenty-five years ago — because poachers had wiped it out entirely.
Kanha’s meadows did not maintain themselves. Four wild buffaloes from Kaziranga may be the beginning of a different answer.
On International Leopard Day 2026, IWN looks at India’s most misunderstood big cat — 13,874 individuals counted, thousands living outside protected areas, and a country still figuring out how to share space with them.
Two deadlines this week, one closing in days. From WII’s 45 research positions to field roles at The Corbett Foundation — here’s what’s hiring in India’s wildlife and conservation sector right now.
The sixth cycle of the All India Tiger Estimation — India’s national tiger census — is currently underway, […]
In early April 2026, a rogue elephant held responsible for the deaths of two people was captured near […]