<p>Order of the Supreme Court in the matter of M K Ranjitsinh & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 21/03/2024. The matter related to protection of Great Indian Bustard (GIB) and Lesser Florican.</p>
The former head of one of Germany's biggest animal welfare groups was sentenced to 12 years in jail in Munich this week after being found guilty of embezzling 26 million euros ($28 million) from
Authoritative books on wildlife in India record many parts of the North-east region as the natural habitat of several wild animals and birds, Manipur was also the home of many of these animals and
The endangered one horned rhino the pride and essence of Assam is now officially its
A rare piece of good news from the trouble torn state of Jammu and Kashmir: while there has been a steep decline in the number of foreign tourists visiting Kashmir in the last decade, the number of
This small hill state better known to be the refuge of the snow leopard and the Monal, has over the past couple of years become a home of tiger also, much to the delight of animal lovers and the
In a major haul, the Wildlife Department of the Delhi Government seized 215 kilograms of raw shahtoosh wool worth Rs 5 crore being transported in a truck near Shahdara. The illegal item was stuffed
If you are one of the many thousands unable to flaunt their prized shahtoosh shawls, your time may be at hand. Changes to the Wildlife Protection Act have come into force and the environment ministry
Mankind's closest relatives, the chimpanzee and the gorilla, will soon be pushed to the brink of extinction without new measures to protest them , scientists said. Populations of both great apes are
The man-animal conflict has reached a point of no return in the hill district of Coorg, Karnataka, with farmers and estate owners resolving to gun down the marauding elephants which has posed a
The survey for a project on conservation of endangered biodiversity in Gujarat has thrown up a pleasant surprise for researchers who have spotted a rare species of bird in the grasslands of Kutch
