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) …
The human-leopard conflict in Uttarakhand continues unabated especially in the mountainous regions of the State with an old man being killed in his courtyard following a leopard attack past Tuesday midnight at a village in Ghansali. The latest attack being the second such incident in the region within a month, …
Accidents Claim 23 Leopards In 60 Months, 9 Near Bangalore Alone, Says Study One fine morning a few years ago, a leopard emerged from Kaggalipura forest and strode onto the NICE Road stretch connecting Bannerghatta Road and Kanakapura Road. In no time, a speeding truck knocked it down. Ironically , …
Asian big cats (including tiger, snow leopard, clouded leopards, and subspecies of leopard, cheetah and lion) are listed in the top three categories of threat on the IUCN Red List, with illegal trade included among the threats to their survival. They are all included in CITES Appendix I, so that …
The chief minister's office (CMO) on Tuesday sought reports regarding illegal mining permissions granted close to Jawai Bandh Leopard Conservation Reserve in Pali district. The CMO took cognizance of a report published in TOI on July 8, highlighting the threat the illegal mining activities were posing to the habitat of …
Mines Dept Denies Any Violations In a blatant violation of the Supreme Court order on mining near a forest area, the Rajasthan government has sanctioned 10 stone quarries adjacent to Jawai Bandh Leopard Conservation Reserve in Pali district. The forest area is home to nearly 50 leopards, sloth bears, wolf, …
PALI: The Rajasthan government, in violation of the Supreme Court order on mining near forest areas, has sanctioned about 10 stone quarries adjacent to Jawai Bandh Leopard Conservation Reserve in Pali district. The reserve, the home to unique cave-dwelling leopards, is facing a serious threat with the mines department planning …
With leopard-human conflict rising in some of the villages bordering the Rajaji national park, the field director of the national park has stressed on the need for policy decisions to ensure a proper solution to this problem. A leopard was killed in the Aurangabad village bordering Rajaji by villagers earlier …
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF), India, has set up camera traps to track the movement of snow leopards, Asia’s most endangered cats, a few km from the Line of Control (LoC) in the mountains of Kargil district. As per the WWF, there are 400-700 snow leopards in India, a majority …
NAGPUR: The machan(waterhole) census carried out in various sanctuaries, national parks and tiger reserves in Vidarbha thrilled the volunteers with a record 66 individual tiger sightings apart from other wildlife. Of the total tiger 66 sightings, 29 were in Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR), 24 in parks under Pench Tiger Reserve …
Following the death of two leopards in different incidents apparently due to inefficiency of Forest Department personnel, activists have requested the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) member secretary for a probe into these two deaths and an explanation from the department on the condition of leopards in the State. In …
The wildlife department will carry out a 24-hour-long census of animals in Gautala Wildlife Sanctuary in the Kannad taluka in Aurangabad from Wednesday. As part of the exercise, about 100 foresters will keep an eye on animal movement from 'machans' that have been set up close to waterbodies in the …
The animal might cause problems elsewhere or die in the wild Translocating leopards that stray into human habitations cannot permanently solve the human-leopard conflicts, pointed out wildlife researchers. Referring to the recent incidents of sighting of leopards at Vazhachal forest division, researchers said the translocation could turn the animals more …
The easy availability of food, especially feral animals like dogs, pigs and goats found near urban garbage dumps, is the main reason that attracts leopards to venture into human territory leading to a conflict situation with disastrous results for both. Leopards, like many other wild species, adapt well to human-dominated …
Concerns over tourism vision group's proposal to develop limited patch Turahalli forest, located just 25 km from Bannerghatta National Park, is an elephant corridor connecting Bannerghatta, Savandurga, Magadi and Kengeri. The Turahalli forests in Bangalore are in news again, this time for eco-tourism. The Karnataka Tourism Vision Group (KTVG) wants …
New Delhi: Around 150 trees have reportedly been felled in densely forested parts of Mangar, off Gurgaon-Faridabad highway, which is one of the few pristine spots left in the Aravalis in Haryana. Villages say the timber is being transported out in trucks. The area where the alleged felling took place …
At a time when poaching of tigers and rhinos has been rampant worldwide‚ Nepal has achieved zero poaching of rhinos‚ tigers and jumbos KATHMANDU: Law enforcement officials have arrested more than 700 wildlife criminals in course of a year ending in February 2014. This has become possible because of increased …
Concern over government’s move to denotify 159 sq km of forests Wild Orissa, a voluntary organisation that works on conservation of wildlife, has expressed concern over the government’s move to denotify 159 sq km of forests from the Satkosia Gorge Wildlife Sanctuary and Satkosia Tiger Reserve. “The proposal is not …
Hyena, a protected wildlife, is at the risk of extinction of late, according to a study. Unchecked poaching of hyena and smuggling of its organs has posed a threat. According to a study on the status of hyena carried out in Chitwan, Sankhuwasabha, Mustang, Manag, Dolpa, Kaski and Humla districts, …
The National Trust for Nature Conservation and the Department of Forests have signed an agreement to launch a special two-year project to prevent human-wildlife conflict in and around the Kathmandu Valley. The agreement comes in the wake of retaliatory killings of five leopards in two years in the valley. The …
Wildlife conservation efforts, particularly for the common leopard in the hills of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), have had little effect as more than 60 common leopards have been illegally hunted in the past four years. According to game wardens in the AJK Wildlife Department, seven common leopards were killed …
