Talodi Range (Maharashtra): The Maharashtra Forest Department has ordered the capture of a tiger which has claimed 3 human lives in the vicinity of the Tadoba Andheri Tiger Reserve. Armed forest guards are on the look out for the two predators in the Talodi Range, Bramhapuri division of North Chandrapur […] Read more »
Nests of rare storks discovered in Bihar
New Delhi: Conservationists are excited at the discovery of a new nesting site of the endangered Greater Adjutant stork in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. Read more »
Ashok Kumar with inputs from Rosa Argent of IFAW One of the routes to the decimation of wild species has been shut down: The fur trade of Srinagar in Kashmir valley. The process began some years back in 1997. The time had come, late no doubt, that a licensed trade […] Read more »
Wandering rhinos at risk from poachers
Kaziranga – Assam: Although rhinos moving out of the Kaziranga National Park are a common phenomenon, of late such incidents have increased, officials who recently rescued a rhino near Lakhimpur Town said. Read more »
Rhino poaching in Kaziranga continues
Kaziranga (Assam): A female rhino was shot dead by poachers in Kaziranga National Park, Assam in the first week of this year. The rhino, killed on January 7, was found the next day with its horn intact by the Forest staff. Read more »
Hundreds attend anti-poaching workshop in Jharkhand
Jharkhand: Nearly three hundred forest staff in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand are participating in a workshop to equip themselves to tackle wildlife crimes and to protect environment. Read more »
Police swoop down on wildlife trader; seize two Shikras
Sunheri Masjid (North Delhi): Two Shikras (Accipiter badius), one alive and another dead, were seized from a youth in the capital last Thursday, while he was waiting for prospective buyers near Sunheri Masjid, about 200 metres away from the nearest police station. The arrest was made by Delhi Wildlife Inspectors […] Read more »
Sloth bear cub rescued from Jharkhand trader
Chandil (Jharkhand): A two-month old sloth bear cub was rescued Monday from a wildlife trader’s home in the eastern Indian Jharkhand state by a joint team of Forest Department and Widlife Trust of India. However, the trader escaped. Read more »
Ratiram’s bail plea rejected by court
New Delhi: The Additional Sessions Judge of Alipurduar in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal today dismissed a bail application of notorious wildlife trader Ratiram Sharma. Read more »
Bansbari, Assam: Manas National Park has received its first greater one horned rhinos seven years after its approximately 100-strong population was wiped out by poachers. Read more »
