Wildlife & Nature

Etawah (Uttar Pradesh); Lioness Neerja has given birth to four cubs at the Etawah Safari Park in Uttar Pradesh. At least three of the four cubs are healthy while one is still weak. With this, the number of lions at Etawah Safari Park…

Chennai; The Tamil Nadu Forest Department on Wednesday safely rescued an elephant cub from a 30-feet deep well in Kolapellur in the Nilgiris district, and reunited it with its waiting mother, officials said. The elephant cub, according…

Ornithologists said the whimbrel arrived in Chhattisgarh for a stopover owing to the presence of wetlands in Bemetara district, about 70 km from the state capital Raipur.

Ocean temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to making the current global coral bleaching event the worst in history. It’s so bad that scientists are hoping for a few hurricanes to cool things…

As per sources, the government is making arrangements, including fencing 80 sq km of land at Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary and Nauradehi Wildlife Sanctuary to house East African cheetahs

Eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) is a buffer area around the core protected forest areas to minimise human-wildlife conflict, promote in-situ conservation of wildlife and reduce impact on fragile ecosystems.

It forecast hot and humid conditions in Odisha, with the mercury likely to soar to 40°Celsius.

NEW DELHI: Politicians hitting the campaign trail for the coming Lok Sabha will have to sweat it out, maybe even literally. The extremely hot weather is set to bring with it serious water crisis especially in Southern and Western parts of…

The court asked the state government’s lawyer whether he would name his own pet after a Hindu God or a Muslim Prophet.

VHP's plea also urged that no animal in any zoological park be named after gods and goddesses of any religion in the future.

Identical questions asked in Lok Sabha and Gujarat assembly on the same day yield widely differing answers on lion deaths, activists suspect data fudging

MYSURU: The famous tusker, Thaneer, from Hassan district which was translocated two weeks ago to Bandipur Tiger Reserve died at Rampura elephant camp in the wee hours of Saturday. Environmentalists blame the foresters for the death. The…

The Snow Leopard Population Assessment in India (SPAI) report released on Tuesday estimates the snow leopard population in India at 718. The exercise was conducted from 2019 to 2023. The SPAI programme covered over 1,20,000 square km of…

Paonta Sahib: In a bid to minimise human-elephant conflict and provide a safe passage to the tuskers, Project Elephant is set to be introduced in the Paonta Sahib-Nahan belt of Sirmuar district. The elephant corridor from Rajaji National…

In response to the recent leopard attacks on two children within a week, the forest department has increased its alert status.

This latest tragedy came more than five months after the last death of an adult cheetah at KNP in August 2022.

Large swathes of East Antarctica experienced temperatures up to 40°C (72°F) above normal, shattering temperature records. It was the most intense heatwave ever recorded anywhere in the world. Climate scientists don’t like surprises.…

In the first phase of the gharial species recovery programme, around 20 gharials were reintroduced to the fresh waters of the river near Tikarpada.

Around 40,000 to 50,000 migratory birds are estimated to have arrived at Punjab’s Harike wetland so far. The arrival of avian guests was late this season because of the delay in onset of the winter season. The Harike wetland, which is…

The park’s Director Sonali Ghosh described the return of two rhinos to the protected area as mother nature’s magic.