Illegal leopard skin trade continues unabated in Odisha

Special Task Force officials have seized 16 leopard skins in the state in last one year

Jumbo graveyard: Odisha registers 282 elephant deaths since 2018

As many as 2 Bengal tigers and 15 leopards also died in the state in the same period  

Tigress that killed 3 in Bihar dies

The tigress had created panic in West Champaran district. It was wounded and unable to hunt due to old age, said forest officials 

Wild Emergency: From sensational to sensible

The National Board of Wildlife’s recommendation that state governments use Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code while dealing with …

Tiger conference: snow leopard, big cat conservation and tackling wildlife crime high on radar

Participants focus on 2017 Snow Leopard Summit, tiger recovery programme and poaching

A flawed effort

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Uproar over tiger show ban

Signs of hope for tigers and rhinos

Two recent raids have proved to be a setback for the lucrative wildlife trade in India. Though enforcement agencies are becoming more efficient, …

Authoritative cover-up

Ban on bones

"We don't intend to threaten India"

The Environmental Investigation Agency ( eia) is one of the leading international environment organisations in London. Recently, it has …

Tiger concern

Guards back with tigers

Court orders salaries for Valmiki Tiger Reserve staff

Chinese checkers

Buzz over tiger trade

Troubled tiger

Vanishing from Panna Reserve, too

New strategy suggested to save crocodiles

Respecting the territorial rights of crocodiles will help reduce the chances of conflict between the interests of humans and reptiles.

For the people

Conservation policies practised in the developing world need to tread cautiously on territories which had for generations, belonged to the people,…

Dying on the edge

To reduce human-animal conflict, a 14-km-long wall will be built along the southern border of Corbett Tiger Reserve. But wall will cost Rs 4.5 …

Tracking Tigers

The pugmark method of counting tigers in the wild is a tedious exercise. But this method really works amidst all modern criticism and technology

Allow rich people with large farmlands to keep tigers as pets, says MP minister

Kusum Singh Mahdele has written to the government asking it to consider domesticating lions and tigers as a method of conservation

Corridors of uncertainty

Saving corridors connecting big cat habitats is a must

Tension over relocation at Melghat sanctuary

The big transition that was Project Tiger

The landmark programme marked the transition from a very big game-centred view of nature, prevalent among imperial British officials, Indian …

Modi’s new ‘deviant’ lion capital: What is it emblematic of anyway?

Scholars find metal-casting atop new Parliament building different from what Nandalal Bose painstakingly created

Will new airstrip in Kerala’s Idukki be a permanent threat to Periyar Tiger Reserve

The airstrip is being built hardly 600 metres away from the boundary of the reserve