The Kawal Tiger Sanctuary in Adilabad, which is yet to be officially established, may run into a controversy with tribals unwilling to move out of the forest reserve area.

Jaipur: The fact that the twoand-half-year-old panther rescued by forest officials after entering the woods near a slum area at Jalana due to shrinking habitat, has upset wildlife activists.

The mountains in the vicinity of famous Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu and Kashmir will soon see mining activity with a high-level environment ministry panel giving a conditional nod to such a p

ITANAGAR: In keeping with the new policy to conduct tiger census annually instead of every four years, the National Tiger Conservation Authority will start the exercise in the two tiger reserves of

GUWAHATI: State Zoo and Botanical Garden has decided to carry out the conservation breeding of the five endangered species Rhino, Golden Languer, Golden Cat, Sherrow and Grey Peacock Pheasant in th

23,000 acres of land has been identified adjoining Bisile forest range

Department of Wildlife Protection, Jammu, organized an education and awareness camp at village Basht near Sudhmahadev Conservation Reserve on September 19.

Prominent citizens, teachers and students of Government and private schools participated during the programme. Two minutes silence was observed in memory of Master Aman Dubey, a class 4th student who was killed by a leopard last year at Basht.

The country’s biggest tiger reserve, Nagarjuna Sagar Srisailam, can now flaunt some extra stripes.

Tiger conservation must be on the official radar of authorities, volunteers and wildlife activists for long but one should not overlook the fact that leopards are vanishing thick and fast from the country and the situation is equally alarming in Madhya Pradesh, which has reported 15 casualties till the halfway mark in 2011.

The wildlife lovers could take offence of the fact that despite the fas