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 pan-India population of the Indian leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) was estimated at 13,874 (Range: 12,616–15,132) …
AHMEDABAD: At least nine leopards have been killed by villagers in Saurashtra, Banaskantha and Dang in the last five years. Of these, five were killed in Saurashtra region alone. "Leopards are being killed in the region where people take care of another big cat - the Asiatic lions. Even if …
Ahmedabad: Lions and leopards killed at least 10 persons in Junagadh district in the past one year. The state government has revealed that 1,966 attacks on cattle and 60 attacks on humans have been reported in the same period. In a written reply to a question by MLA Dhirsinh Barad, …
A majority of Indian wildlife scientists are unable to come together to create a united front to add a much-needed conservation focus to policymaking. In an age when we are trying to balance development with protection of forest areas, wildlife biologists need to actively respond to and engage with situations …
Harsh for development of Mansar lake JAMMU: Increasing man-animal conflict was the serious concern of almost all members in State Assembly today during the discussion of grants on Forest and allied departments during second sitting today. Right from Ch Zulfkar to Engineer Rashid all members showed concern over growing man …
Kolkata: The deeper you go into the Sunderbans, the more mysterious it is. The camera traps that have snapped 18 Bengal tigers outside the core area of the mangrove forests also captured two photos of a never-before seen cat. It could be another species altogether, a eureka moment for conservationists …
Even as Rajasthan’s minister of environment, the flamboyant Bina Kak has expressed apprehension at the rising cases of human-animal conflict, environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan is determined to play down such incidents. Ms Kak cites the example of four people being killed in Rajathan within a span of three weeks due …
JORHAT: Incidents of man-leopard conflicts are on the rise in the nearby areas of Gibon wildlife Sanctuary in Jorhat district. After a leopard attacked a person in Kathalguri tea estate on Monday, another person was injured in leopard attack yesterday at Meleng tea estate. During the last one week, dead …
ALWAR: The state forest department along with Wildlife Institute of India (WII) would soon be relocating a tigress to Sariska that had strayed into the Sultanpur area of Kota from the Ranthambore tiger reserve. A team of experts from the WII and the state forest department are camping in Kota …
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 …
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 most of its animals. However, there is finally some hope that they might return. Officials have …
RANGIA/DIBRUGARH: 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 …
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 …
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 method has been used for tiger estimation in Namdapha. All past tiger census were carried out …
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 Tungareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary. The nine-day survey began on Thursday and is aimed at helping …
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 into human habitations in search of food and that is why, they are …
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 fund Save Our Species (SOS), set up by the IUCN, the World Bank and others, has announced to allocate …
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 …
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 the forests and wetlands in the State. “The Chief Minister has given approval to raise the battalion for the …
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. About 4,000 tribals who live in 43 settlements in the area — which was declared the Kawal Tiger Sanctuary on June …
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. They cautioned civic authorities and the forest departments to be prepared for similar incidents. Rohir Gangwal of an NGO – Raksha …
