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Chennai: About 500 Indian star tortoises, repatriated from Malaysia, were moved to the Arignar Anna Zoological Park in Chennai yesterday for appropriate care and eventual rehabilitation into the wild. The smuggled tortoises were returned to the country by the...

Shimla: Three suspected wildlife traders were nabbed and booked under various sections of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 in Chaupal (Himachal Pradesh) on Friday for possessing wildlife goods including one leopard skin, two leopard skulls, about 11 kgs...

Kaziranga NP (Assam): Attempt to re-unite a month-old female tiger cub with her mother is in progress today in the Burapahar range of Kaziranga National Park, by the Assam Forest Department assisted by International Fund for Animal Welfare – Wildlife...

New Delhi: In Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book, Mowgli was adopted and raised by a pack of wolves. They helped him survive in the jungles of India and protected him from harm. Now in the Indian jungles, the wolf struggles for survival, threatened by people,...

Kokrajhar (Assam, Manas): Celebrating the World Wildlife Week, locals in Manas in the northeast Indian state of Assam joined the Bodoland Territorial Council, Assam Forest Department and IFAW-WTI in an urgent campaign to save the golden langur – an...

Bodh Gaya (Bihar): Committing to help eradicate bear dancing from the country, 24 former bear dancers rehabilitated by WSPA-WTI will now advocate alternative livelihoods among fellow Kalandars and promote conservation and welfare of sloth...

Yarmouth Port, MA: IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) yesterday announced that actor and activist Leonardo DiCaprio will lead its Animal Action campaign to save elephants and shut down the cruel international ivory trade. The campaign launched this...

Alwar (Rajasthan): A person was sentenced to three years imprisonment by the Court of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate – II, Alwar, last Friday, for poaching a tiger from Sariska Tiger...

By M Ramith Craigmore (Tamil Nadu): Since we caught our first fleeting glimpse of a Nilgiri marten (Martes gwatkinsii) several months ago, a colleague and I have revisited the evergreen patch in Craigmore numerous times to photo-capture this extremely elusive...

Junagadh (Gujarat): Gujarat’s frontline forest staff responsible for the protection of the endangered Asiatic lion and its habitat in Greater Gir, are undergoing ‘refresher’ training to brush up their skills and knowledge in wildlife crime prevention...

Roing (Arunachal Pradesh): A second family of Eastern hoolock gibbons was successfully translocated from the village of Dello to the Mehao Wildlife Sanctuary on Sunday as part of a project to save a stranded group of this endangered species of ape in...

Paro, Bhutan: Jointly conducted by trainers from International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), this workshop will initiate the much needed capacity building among enforcement authorities to deal with illegal wildlife trade....

Rajaji National Park (Uttarakhand): An adult tusker, allegedly involved in human elephant conflict, was captured from Narendranagar Forest Division and relocated to the Chilla Range of the Rajaji National Park on Saturday in a joint operation by the...

Alwar (Rajasthan): Accused in six cases of tiger poaching, Jiwan Das – an associate of the notorious poacher Juhru, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment by a court here on...

New Delhi: Three persons, accused of poaching tiger in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, were denied bail earlier this week by the Court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate,...

Kokrajhar (Bodoland, Assam): Continuing to strengthen conservation of Greater Manas landscape, aid was provided to various stakeholders under the Greater Manas Conservation Fund (GMCF) at an event held today in...

Paro (Bhutan): Initiating trans-border cooperation for conservation of wildlife in the subcontinent, a capacity building programme on wildlife rescue and rehabilitation was organised last week for 21 personnel from the Department of Forest and Park Services...

Roing (Arunachal Pradesh): Four orphaned Asiatic black bear cubs have been moved to Mehao Wildlife Sanctuary for rehabilitation in the wild. This brings the number of this species rehabilitated through a soft-release protocol in northeast India to 26,...

New Delhi: Buddhist scholars and environment conservationists on Monday endorsed a global declaration to apply Buddhist principles in societal, consumer and political decision-making frameworks to address the current environmental...

Roing (Arunachal Pradesh): A rescue operation to save an isolated group of endangered Hoolock gibbons began on Sunday in the remote village of Dello in northeast India. Stranded in small clusters of trees, the gibbons are some of the last apes found in India....