Astray?

From the Gir National Park in Gujarat to the Sunderbans in West Bengal, lions and tigers are ranging far beyond territories administered by the …

Lives of others

Wildlife is more of an academic concern except when the charismatic tiger is wiped out from a protected forest or our favourite fish vanishes …

Lion attack in safari park near Gir, one killed

The Devaliya Safari Park near Sasan houses 10 lions. On Thursday morning, three forest department employees were attacked, resulting in …

Reliance mobile towers in Gir: Lion experts say any artificial object an intrusion into natural spaces

How much more will we intrude into nature, experts ask, even as the Gujarat wildlife board has already given permission to Reliance to install …

Is it time to find a second home for Asiatic lions?

The recent deaths of lions in Gir has raised the issue of their translocation to a safer place

‘It may be too late to contain virus outbreak killing Gir lions’

An American researcher, who worked on mitigating the canine distemper outbreak in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park in 1994, talks to Down …

Biporjoy: As cyclone nears Kutch & Saurashtra, concern grows over Gir lions, Naliya bustards

Some 700 lions are spread across the Gir landscape, whereas Naliya is home to 4 Great Indian Bustards

Forest Survey Report 2021: Overall decadal decline in forest cover in India’s 52 tiger reserves, Gir

Tiger reserves in India have lost 22.62 sq km of forest over the last decade while Gir has lost 33.43 sq km

Yes, there were lions in Haryana till the early 1800s and the British wiped them out

Between 1809 and 1823, hundreds of Asiatic lions were killed in today’s Haryana by British officers, soldiers and Indian princes aligned …

Wildlife Week: Trade in bones, taxonomic reclassification potential threats for Asiatic lions

Vying for attention with the greatly championed and more widespread Indian tigers, Asiatic lions may be fighting a difficult battle

More than Rs 25 crore for Asiatic lions unspent despite 331 deaths

Positions of forest guards, veterinarians and foresters are lying vacant and a vaccine is yet to be developed

Whose home is it, anyway?

The Maldharis of the Gir national park face eviction because their "unsustainable" economy if threatening the Asiatic lion

Choose or else

The ecodevelopment project being implemented in Gir National Park has raked up a controversy on the issue of relocation of the native Maldhari …

DTE Exclusive: Govt report blames half of Gir lion deaths in January-May this year on diseases

The other half died of natural causes, snake bite, electrocution and by falling into wells

How two-year-old Una flogging incident is killing Gir lions today

Most of the dead Gir lions were suffering from canine distemper, which spreads from dogs to bovines and water bodies before reaching big cats

Emerging cross-species infections are killing lions and humans

Infectious agents causing life-threatening diseases are spreading to new hosts, and human actions, ranging from dairy farming to tourism, are …

Gir deaths: one lion, two lionesses found guilty

While the lion killed and ate a teenager, the lionesses were not involved in attacking and killing, and ate leftover body parts

Project Lion: Proposal identifies 6 relocation sites apart from Kuno-Palpur

The proposal seeks to create free ranging lion populations within Gujarat and in India to counter lack of genetic diversity within Asiatic lions

Once upon a time in India, lions were present from West to East, even south of Narmada: Study

New paper enumerates sightings of lions from Bharuch, Seoni, Hazaribagh, Gumla, Kolkata and Dinajpur by analysing British Era records

Not just virus, tourism and staff crunch also kill Gir lions

Illegal lion shows and laxity in protection of forests one of the major reasons behind deaths of 23 Asiatic lions

Second home for Gujarat lions: 40 big cats to be moved to Barda from overflowing Gir

Translocation under Project Lion; previous papers suggest Barda may be too geographically close, may not be able to hold so many Asiatic lions

World Lion Day: The Asiatic lion is at a crossroads; can it find its way to Kuno?

The lions stand on the edge of a precipice; unless something urgent is done, Indians stand to lose a priceless part of their natural heritage 

DTE Ground Report: Gujarat’s coast from Kutch to Bhavnagar gears up to withstand Biporjoy landfall

Low-lying areas have been evacuated; commercial and naval establishments are on standby as Biporjoy nears

Problems behind the pugmarks

Translocating some lions from Gujarat's Gir sanctuary -- the home of the endangered Asiatic lion -- to the Kuno wildlife sanctuary in Madhya …

92 lions already dead in Gir this year, report flags

Union govt was aware of high mortality even as PM Modi played up rise in count