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: The census of leopards and sloth bears conducted in May this year has revealed that there are more leopards which have made revenue areas - the areas away from jungles close to human habitations - as their homes rather than safe and protected environment of forests. According to the …
DEHRADUN: In the last two months, as many as 15 wild animals have been found killed by speeding vehicles on national highway -74 near Haridwar forest division of Uttarakhand. The latest instance is that of a leopard who was killed on the same highway on Tuesday. A tiger was crushed …
Even in degraded forests, wild animals can survive. Selectively-logged forests in Borneo can still be home for the clouded leopard and the civet, the orangutan and the bearded pig. And for small mammals such as squirrels and rodents, population densities could be even higher in no-longer-pristine woodland, according to new …
A new study revealed that Indochinese leopards in Southeast Asia are dwindling in number, with less than 1,000 individuals, adding another big cat in the brink of extinction. In a study published in Biological Conservation, the report showed that the genetically distinct subspecies now only live in 6.2 percent of …
At best, just 2,500 Indochinese leopards survive today across Southeast Asia. They have been eradicated from 93% of their historic habitat by snares, poachers, deforestation and declines in prey. Can conservationists stop the bleeding before its too late? Conservationists have long known that it’s hard – and in some cases …
Some wildlife activists have taken exception to Forest Department officials leaking highly sensitive information related to camera trapping tigers showing their presence in a specific location, to the media. Activists, while requesting anonymity, told The Hindu here last week that the leakage of information had come at a time when …
The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) is calling on East African Community Partner States to enact new wildlife legislation with enhanced penalties and improve strategies and protection measures in a bid to save the region's wildlife. Findings by EALA's committee on agriculture, tourism and natural resources indicate that elephants and …
DEHRADUN: Titli Trust has made its finding public after conducting a joint survey with Wildlife Conservation Society on leopard afflicted forest divisions of the state for a year. In its observation, Trust has nullified perception of relation between shrinking habitat and prey base with increase in human-leopard conflict and, also …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Population of Tigers, 26/07/2016. Three major species of big cats are found in India, namely, tiger (Panthera tigris tigris), leopard (Panthera pardus) and Asiatic lion (Panthera leo persica). As per the assessment of the Status of Tigers, Co-predators and Prey, 2014 using the refined …
A leopard rests in Serengeti national park, northern Tanzania. Leopards in sub-Saharan Africa are officially classed as ‘threatened’, unlike in northern Africa where their status is ‘endangered’. Conservationists have demanded a crackdown on the import to the US of leopards killed by American hunters, in an attempt to replicate the …
GURGAON: The Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun, which has carried out a survey of wildlife in the Aravallis, is likely to come up with its report soon. During the survey, sources said, the presence of major wildlife species, including leopard was found in Mangarbani. Marks of other animals like …
Barely a few months after tigers returned to the Kawal Tiger Reserve (KTR) after many years, the big cats and other wild animals in the reserve are set to face increased threats from vehicular traffic. Government sources said that senior officials of the state forest department, charged with the responsibility …
Around 1.7m animal “trophies” have been exported across borders by hunters in the last decade, with at least 200,000 of them endangered species, according to a new report. US hunters are by far the largest killers of trophy animals, including half of all the 11,000 lions shot in the last …
Shimla will soon have a wildlife crime control wing to check the poaching of snow leopards, pheasants, musk deer and bears. To make a quick buck, poachers target the rare species in the Great Himalayan National Park (GHNP), Kullu, and Pin Valley National Park, Spiti. The GHNP authorities burnt as …
BHUBANESWAR: A wildlife official in Chattisgarh on Wednesday rejected claims that tribes living in a tiger sanctuary inspired by Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book were being forced from their ancestral land to protect the endangered animals. Indigenous rights group Survival International says the Baiga tribes in the Achanakmar Wildlife Sanctuary …
Bhubaneswar: A survey conducted by the state government in 46 forest and wildlife divisions has pegged the population of Royal Bengal Tigers at 40. The government took up the tiger estimation nearly one and a half years after the release of National Tiger Conservation Authority's (NTCA's) all-India tiger estimation report, …
Ahmedabad: The biennial vulture census will take place in the state on May 28-29. Bird and wildlife enthusiasts are extremely interested in the census as it is taking place after four years from 2012, as the government had skipped the census expected in 2014. The vulture census 2016 will be …
Kolhapur: As many as eight goats were killed in leopard attacks in Bhudargad tehsil on Saturday. The incidents took place in Aralgundi village and Mahagond hamlet in the tehsil. Two farmers lost four goats each in the attacks. Forest guard Amol Chavan has completed the post-mortem as well as status …
Nagpur: In a huge victory for the forest department, the Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court on Monday quashed and set aside Amravati sessions court order to suspend sentence of dreaded tiger poacher Bhajan Hotel Dhurve. Bhajan is an expert in killing tigers and operated in forests of Vidarbha. He …
Sarpanch Jaswant Mewada of Chamunderi village in Pali district is dismayed that the state government has chosen to return the proposal of five gram panchayats to declare their area a "community reserve" for the protection of leopards. The government has sought the consent of all landowners. "That's going to be …
