Three orphaned Asiatic black bear cubs left the Centre for Bear Rehabilitation and Conservation on 24 September for a pre-release site inside Pakke Tiger Reserve in Arunachal Pradesh, a 26-kilometre journey on foot and elephant back.
Wildlife Rescue
A seven-month-old tiger cub strayed out of the forest and into a villager’s house in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district on Thursday night, setting off a rescue that has forest officials searching for a mother tiger who may have lost track of her cub.
A tiger cub rescued near Kaziranga broke out of its forest department holding crate and disappeared on 19 September, leaving pugmarks four days later as the first solid evidence that it is surviving alone in the wild.
A wild bull elephant found with a suspected spear wound and a clouded left eye near a tea estate in Assam’s Sonitpur district a month ago is still under treatment, with vets tracking whether his eyesight will come back.
A leopard that broke into a house in Himachal Pradesh’s Sirmaur district on Friday, going after a dog inside, stayed trapped in the room for the next 36 hours before forest officials could safely tranquillise and release it back into the wild on Sunday.
A wild elephant is moving through the Marangi-Bakiyal forest block near Numaligarh, in Assam’s Golaghat district, with an old tyre wedged tightly around its neck.
A leopard that forest officials believed was unconscious after being hit by a vehicle near Davanagere sprang awake mid-rescue on Tuesday and attacked the official trying to tranquillise it.
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.
A gharial went missing in Rajasthan’s canal network in March. It took two forest departments, three sightings and five months of patient tracking to bring it home.