India has 13,874 leopards, with the heart of the country — Madhya Pradesh — having the largest number of its third-biggest felid, a landmark report released by the Centre on February 29, 2024 showed. The
The Assam forest department has set up a team of wildlife experts to look into the frequent incidents of leopard straying into the residential locality of Guwahati and claimed that the tiger population is increasing in Assam. Informing that Assam may have the highest number of tigers soon, Assam forest minister Rockybul Hussain told reporters that census through pug marks and camera-trapping has indicated that the tiger population in Kaziranga and other wildlife sanctuaries of the state was rising.
Big Cat Visits Area From Fbd-Gurgaon Side. A little over a century ago, Delhi’s forests were home to a large number of carnivores including lions, leopards and wolves. As forest land disappeared so did
A leopard was killed on Wednesday by angry villagers of Madhukuchi village after they failed in their efforts to shoo away the big cat from the paddy fields where it was hiding. Another leopard, however, managed to escape. Witnesses say some villagers spotted two leopards in the paddy fields of the Madhukuchi village under Rangia subdivision. Soon, a large crowd gathered around the field and tried to shoo away the leopards. The scared animals, rattled by the crowd, attacked some people, resulting in injuries to eight villagers.
Leopards straying into in villages nestling along the forest fringes in the State, attacking people and their cattle have become a matter of serious concern. The killing of a healthy female leopard that had strayed into the small hamlet of Angamoozhy in the Ranni forest division by an unruly mob on Tuesday was the latest in the series of human-leopard conflict in the State.
Camera trapping method has been used for the first time in the ongoing tiger census in the Namdapha National Park in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh. “This is the first time the camera trapping
For the first time, the forest department is using the the line transect method — used in tiger reserves in the country — to estimate population of animals at Sanjay Gandhi National Park and the nearby
JORHAT: During the last five years, in Upper Assam, at least 50 leopards lost their lives at the hands of the human beings. Shrinking of forest cover and shortage of food have forced the animals to transgress
Gorillas, cockatoos and frogs are among a list of threatened species to benefit from a $3.3 million aid award, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said yesterday. The conservation
Contrary to expectations, the number of birds visiting Pong Dam wetland, one of the largest manmade wetlands in North India, has declined by about 10 per cent this year. During a two-day census of the waterfowl species (birds that depend on water bodies for roosting and feeding), 119,500 birds of the 103 species were spotted in the wetland in Kangra district, wildlife officials said on Thursday.
Legal action against forest officials who fail to check encroachment of forest land, illegal felling of trees GUWAHATI: The Assam Government has decided to raise a new battalion to exclusively protect
