Jharkhand wipes 3 wildlife sanctuaries off records for iron ore mining

The three sanctuaries, in West Singhbhum district, have been recognised for over 40 years

To create a wild haven

The Tumakuru Forest Division has submitted a proposal to the Karnataka government for declaring the Bukkapatna State Forest as a Wildlife …

जैव-विविधता की अनूठी मिसाल है छोटी-काशी की प्राकृतिक धरोहर

साल भर जल उपलब्धता की वजह से पशु-पक्षियों के आश्रय-स्थल बने बूंदी के जंगल

एनएच-766 का वैकल्पिक मार्ग भी जीवाें के लिए सुरक्षित नहीं, 8 महीने में 2,426 जीव मरे

वायनाड वन्यजीव अभराण्य में पड़ने वाले थोलपेट्टी रेंज से गुजरने वाली सड़क पर रात को यातायात बहुत बढ़ जाता है, जिससे वन्यजीव गाड़ियों की ...

Four decades later, bamboo rice shows up in Odisha

The rare variety, which was last harvested in Chandaka-Dampara Wildlife Sanctuary in 1979, grows twice or thrice in a century

Snakebites in rural India: A slow suppuration

Most people in rural areas die from snakebites during the monsoon season; a quarter of these are children less than 15 years of age

Cheetah reintroduction in India is a project worth revisiting

An icon of nature, the Cheetah’s return to India will have a number of benefits

झारखंड में खनन के लिए रिकॉर्ड से हटा दी 3 वाइल्ड लाइफ सेंचुरी

ये तीन वाइल्ड लाइफ सेंचुरी पश्चिमी सिंहभूम जिले में स्थित हैं, जिन्हें 40 साल पहले रिकॉर्ड में शामिल किया गया था

Camera trap proves Gujarat now has tiger

Will the presence of the tiger puncture the state’s stance against sending lions to Kuno?

Roars in lost land

As tigers are sighted in high mountains scientists wonder if they have always lived there or are migrants in search of a better habitat

On the trail of rampaging elephants

Down To Earth reporters visit human-elephant conflict zones and discover that affected people are increasingly venting their ire on forest staff …

Desertification in India: Mining monstrous for Goa, but urbanisation digs a bigger hole

Lack of planning has potential of becoming the biggest degrader of land in Goa

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 

Special enclosure at Pench for orphaned tiger cubs

Centre allocates Rs 1.05 crore  

Mining in Goa: damage to the environment greater than loss of revenue

Activists demand assessment of impact of mining on state's environment and communities

‘Man-eater’ tiger on prowl on Kerala-Tamil Nadu border

Kerala government issues order to kill the tiger following killing of two persons

Bor becomes smallest tiger reserve in India with four tigers

Conservation authority bends its own rules to declare the area a tiger reserve

Police seize 4,000 tonnes of sand mined from gharial sanctuary

There have been four attacks by the sand mafia on State Armed Forces' jawans protecting the Chambal river banks in the last three months, says …

24 Chhattisgarh villages pledge to develop wildlife sanctuary on their own

Community leaders say they will increase forest cover and wildlife numbers by 150 per cent in five years in the proposed Udanti and Sita Nadi …

SC stays order evicting resorts near Mudumalai sanctuary

Madras High Court had given three months to vacate the area

On day 100, Kerala tribals continue to ‘stand up’ for their rights

Adivasis want the state government to fulfill its promise of giving land to the landless

Rajasthan drafts its own wildlife tourism guidelines

Allows tourism in core tiger habitats and areas in reserves from where villages were uprooted

Will it be lions or cheetahs that will roam Kuno-Palpur sanctuary?

Supreme Court asks environment ministry to clarify stand after Gujarat opposes translocation of Gir lions to Madhya Pradesh

Radio-collared leopard killed by speeding vehicle in Thane

Ajoba made headlines in 2009 when he travelled over 100 km from Pune to Mumbai’s Sanjay Gandhi National Park

Floods kill four in Assam; destroy crops

Brahmaputra and five other rivers flow above danger mark; low lying areas of Kaziranga and Pobitora wildlife sanctuary under water