Sub-adult tigers successfully shifted to Biological Park Itanagar from Roing
Itanagar: Two sub-adult Royal Bengal tigers, being hand-raised for rehabilitation back to the wild, have been safely shifted from Mini Zoo-Roing (AP) to Biological Park Itanagarby IFAW-WTI team assisting the Forest Department and the NTCA. Read more »
Snake Bites Kill 100 Around Dudhwa National Park
Lakhimpur (Uttar Pradesh): Alarmed by the rising number of snake bites in the villages adjoining the Dudhwa National Park, the forest officials organized a workshop to sensitize people to deal with the situation. 57 people have already died of snake bites in the past eight months in the region. Read more »
Khan’s bail appeal deferred by Court
Jodhpur (Rajasthan): A Jodhpur bench of the Rajasthan High Court Wednesday deferred the hearing of Salman Khan’s bail appeal and asked his lawyers to approach the Registry for listing the case. Khan’s lawyers approached the bench of Justice H. R. Pawar today, after Justice G. K. Vyas refused to hear […] Read more »
An island cat and an ingenious bird
A month has slipped by with preparations for the elephant congress that will happen in Delhi taking me from Thailand to Cambodia, Germany to the UK, and in all places beset by meetings and negotiations. Read more »
Salman surrenders before Jodhpur police
Jodhpur (Rajasthan):Salman Khan finally surrendered before police Saturday following a non-bailable warrant issued by the Jodhpur session court Friday after he failed to attend the court proceedings where his five-year jail term was upheld by the court. Read more »
Jodhpur (Rajasthan): The district sessions court today upheld the five year-jail term awarded to the popular Bollywood actor, Salman Khan, who had been convicted for poaching a Chinkara, an endangered species of antelope. Read more »
WTI acquires land to facilitate elephant corridor in Kerala
Wayanad (Kerala): In a significant step for protecting the Brahmagiri – Tirunelli elephant corridor in Southern India, Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) has acquired a part of the Valiya Emmadi village as part of its efforts to relocate the five villages which fall on the corridor. This is the second […] Read more »
Sloth bear confiscated in Uttar Pradesh: tip-off by WTI
Azamgarh (Uttar Pradesh): Acting on a tip-off given by Wildlife trust of India, forest officials confiscated a five-year-old sloth bear from a house in Azamgarh District in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh last Thursday. The Divisional Forest Officer, S.N Mishra had ordered his colleagues to raid the house […] Read more »
Huge haul of Shahtoosh shawls in New Delhi
Delhi: In one of the biggest haul of shahtoosh shawls in recent history, a CBI team (Central Bureau of Investigation) seized 57 shahtoosh shawls Monday from three different traders from an upmarket hotel in south Delhi. All three accused, Rashid Khan, Mushtaq and Bisharat were arrested from the hotel premises […] Read more »
Train kills inebriated elephant after it killed its keeper
Panitola (Assam): An inebriated captive elephant was hit by a train and killed Wednesday as it strayed on to the tracks after killing one of its keepers in a fit of anger, officials said. The elephant, which was intoxicated after it drank rice-beer that its two keepers were drinking, trampled […] Read more »
