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.
Wildlife Trust of India
A court in Assam has handed down the 11th wildlife crime conviction connected to Manas Tiger Reserve, according to the Wildlife Trust of India — capping a legal effort that traces back to 2011.
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.
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 domesticated elephant in Assam whose tusks were sawed off by poachers in April has finally undergone the surgery his injuries required.
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.
Villagers in Amtola, a small settlement on the edge of the Bamungaon Hills in Assam’s Bongaigaon district, put more than 500 native saplings into the ground on 5 August.
Two orphaned leopard cat kittens, hand-raised from infancy by vets in Assam, took their first steps back towards a wild life this week — into an acclimatisation enclosure in Raimona National Park, with no radio collars and about a month left before the door opens for good.
A honey badger entered Khudputli village in Mayurbhanj, Odisha and attacked five people over 24 hours before forest teams and the Wildlife Trust of India caught it.
The sambar is India’s largest deer, the tiger’s most important prey across much of its range, and one of the least-watched large mammals in the Indian forest. Its invisibility is almost entirely intentional.