The state government has proposed to establish a tiger sanctuary at Sathyamangalam, forest minister K.T. Pachaimal announced in the Assembly.

“The tiger reserve will be established on 1.41 lakh hecta

While the state government has ordered a CID inquiry into the attack on an assistant conservator of forests (ACF) of the Dandeli-Anshi tiger reserve, who paid with his life for merely doing his duty

According to the 2010 Wildlife Institute census, the state had 72 tigers and this excluded an estimated 15 tiger cubs. The state, on the other hand, boasted of a much larger figure — 105 tigers just a

In cheering news for wildlife conservationists, tiger poaching dropped nearly 60 percent in 2011 as compared to the previous year, though it continues to pose a major threat to the survival of the big

Elephant population has increased by 2,000 in the past 15 years in the country taking their number to 28,000, as per the latest data provided by Ministry of Environment and Forests.

The Ministry, how

Many questions on tiger conservation have sprung up with the first clear pictures taken by “camera trapping” of a tiger moving in the forest track between Kerwan dam and Kathotia on Bhopal’s southern

They are increasingly wandering into fields, villages and even buildings on the outskirts of towns and cities.

Spotting a leopard close to human habitation is no longer surprising. The result is ine

The Central government is considering a Rs 30-crore recovery project plan spread over five years for Nilgiri tahr, the endangered mountain goats along the Western Ghats in Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

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