Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Kamal Tiwari Vs Union of India & Others dated 27/05/2025. The Principal Chief Conservator of Forest and Chief Wildlife Warden, Rajasthan stated that a high level meeting to review the progress on the demarcation of Nahargarh …
More than 100 wildlife rangers died on the job in Asia and central Africa over the last year, nearly half killed by poachers, the WWF reported today. Illegal hunters are decimating endangered wildlife to gather rhino horns and big cat body parts to sell in East Asia, as well as …
Lions, already in decline throughout Africa, face a new threat: growing demand for their body parts, including bones, teeth, and claws. These are sought after for use in traditional medicines and trinkets, mostly in Southeast Asia. Though it’s illegal to poach these big cats, and international trade in lion parts …
Wayne Lotter, a renowned South African conservationist, has been awarded a posthumous 2018 Global Ranger Award by International Ranger Federation (IRF). The anti-poaching activist was shot dead aged 51 in Tanzania last year. He has won the IRF Lifetime Achievement Award for his efforts to stop the poaching of elephants …
BAREILLY: At a time when tiger census is underway across the country, a report by Association of Indian Zoo and Wildlife Veterinarians (AIZWV) has revealed that Uttar Pradesh lost 146 tigers between 1987 and 2016. According to this report, UP had a total of 117 tigers in 2014. Annual counts …
Marked as an occasion to raise public awareness and support for tiger conservation, Global Tiger Day — also known as the International Tiger Day — will be celebrated on Sunday. Srinivas Reddy, chief conservator of forests, Melghat Tiger Reserve, in a statement issued Saturday, said Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia, India, Bhutan, …
The leopard attack at Rahul Nagar, Mulund (West), is being cited by experts as a copybook case on ‘how to invite leopards for dinner'. “Firstly, the (shantytown is an encroachment) inside the boundary of Sanjay Gandhi National Park. Then, the victim had tied his dog outside his front door, a …
Habitat for the critically endangered swift parrot is being “knowingly destroyed” by logging because of government failures to manage the species’ survival, according to research. Matthew Webb and Dejan Stojanovic, two of the Eureka prize finalists from the Australian National University’s difficult bird research group, say governments have stalled on …
A recently published study finds that more than 1,500 species stand to be affected by the completion of a border wall along the U.S. – Mexico border. Overall, they found that a continuous border wall would disconnect more than 34 percent of native, nonflying U.S. species – 346 in total …
The population of critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoises has continued to decline in recent years despite intensive conservation efforts, China’s agriculture ministry said following a survey. A investigation into a 1,669 km (1,040 miles) stretch of the Yangtze river conducted late last year found that only 445 finless porpoises were …
Diamond producer De Beers said on Monday it was relocating 200 elephants from its private reserve in South Africa to neighboring Mozambique, part of wider efforts to restore wildlife populations ravaged by conflict there.The Anglo American unit said its 32,000-hectare (80,000-acre) Venetia Limpopo Nature Reserve could support around 60 elephants …
Harsh drought conditions in parts of the American West are pushing wild horses to the brink and spurring extreme measures to protect them. For what they say is the first time, volunteer groups in Arizona and Colorado are hauling thousands of gallons of water and truckloads of food to remote …
A professional workshop on Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) that is aimed at providing anyone, anywhere open access to biodiversity data information about all types of life on earth, is currently taking place at the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) Headquarters in Monrovia. Coordinated through its Secretariat in Copenhagen, GBIF provides …
Protection for dolphins and seabirds will be weaker under government plans for Brexit than if Britain stayed in the EU, according to a new analysis by environmental groups. Under the EU’s Seabird Plan of Action, the fishing industry is obliged to eliminate “bycatch”, where boats accidentally catch seabirds, dolphins and …
Seven black rhinos have died at the Tsavo East National Park following translocation by wildlife conservationists late last month, wildlife official said on Friday. A Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) official who did not want to be named said the seven rhinos which were being moved from Nairobi National Park to …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Wildlife Sanctuaries, 20/07/2018. The details of the wildlife Sanctuaries in the country including Madhya Pradesh is given at Annexure.
India has some of the largest roosting sites of this migratory species. Harrier birds, a migratory raptor species that regularly visits vast swathes of India, are declining. This may foretell lurking dangers to the country’s grasslands. The “poorly studied” species is the focus of a study by two researchers from …
CROOKS CORNER: Africa's ancient baobab, with its distinctive swollen trunk and known as the ``tree of life,'' is under a new and mysterious threat, with some of the largest and oldest dying abruptly in recent years. Nine of the 13 oldest baobabs, aged between 1,000 and 2,500 years, have died …
Alien plants are threatening animals in one of the Kenya's major wildlife reserves, a study has shown. The study found that at least 245 alien species, introduced in the Mara-Serengeti ecosystem accidentally or intentionally as ornamental plants, were destroying the grass and native plants the animals feed on. The plants …
Wildlife authorities in Kenya have opened a new sanctuary for black rhinos in Tsavo East National Park. Black rhinos have fared better than other rhino species in recent years, but remain threatened by poachers who kill the animals for their horns. The Kenya Wildlife Service, working in collaboration with The …
In collaboration with a nature reserve in Namibia, researchers funded by the SNSF are developing a new approach to counting animals: combining drone flights and automated image analysis. In collaboration with a nature reserve in Namibia, researchers funded by the SNSF are developing a new approach to counting animals: combining …
