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Indian Army plans to beef up patrolling and surveillance in Sir Creek, Sundarbans
Sources said there are plans to procure eight Landing Craft Assaults (LCA) and six Fast Patrol Boats (FPB).
In a first, Manipur to carry out census of migratory Amur falcons
The first batch of the small-sized birds, numbering around 20-30, arrived in Manipur’s Tamenglong district on Friday.
Surkhab birds arrive at Uttarakhand for winter stay
During winters, 70 to 80 species of birds migrate from the high Himalayan region and cold regions of Europe to the Asan Barrage wetlands for a six-month stay.
18 rare pygmy hogs reintroduced into original home in Assam’s Manas National Park
This was the fourth such reintroduction in Manas. Overall, 54 hogs were released here in the past four years.
CBI begins probe into illegal felling of 6,000 trees at Pakhro Tiger Safari in Corbett
According to the highly placed official sources, "The CBI is likely to soon start questioning the officials concerned as well as former forest minister Harak Singh Rawat in this matter".
Appalling display of negligence: Varun Gandhi’s swipe at Centre’s cheetah import plan
Project Cheetah, India's ambitious initiative to reintroduce cheetahs after their extinction in the country, marks its first anniversary on Sunday.
Rhino kills zookeeper, seriously injures her husband at Austrian zoo
Zoo director, Sabine Grebner, told reporters later on Tuesday that the 33-year-old woman, a German citizen from Bavaria, was assigned that day to put an insect deterrent on the rhino.
‘Ranthambhore will miss him’: Aditya Singh, who left civil services to build a forest,…
Singh quit his bureaucratic career and came to Ranthambore in 1998, where he leased a government property and continued to buy the adjacent farming land of nearly 40 acres to turn it into a reserve.
Uttarakhand tiger to return home after failing to find shelter in four states
The tiger left last year and is now returning to Uttarakhand after covering hundreds of kilometres from Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.
Kaziranga Park to get first woman field director; Sonali Ghosh to take charge from Sept 1
Ghosh is presently working as the chief conservator of forests for research education and working plan division at the office of the principal chief conservator of forests in Guwahati.
‘New Kumbhalgarh tiger reserve in Rajasthan to displace indigenous tribes’
“How can we have a tiger reserve where no tigers exist and there are no connectivity corridors to other tiger reserves?” said Meenal Tatpati, a forest rights lawyer
Pleased to donate cheetahs to India, says South African President as PM Modi hails Big Cat Alliance
South Africa had sent 12 cheetahs to India in February. This was in addition to eight that were brought in from Namibia in November 2022.
Government assures SC cheetahs have “winter cover” for African weather.
Since March of this year, a total of nine cheetahs, including three cubs born in India, have passed away in the KNP in Madhya Pradesh, which raises concerns about the way the project is being managed.
Uttarakhand counts rare vultures after 18 years.
After 18 years, Uttarakhand will finally conduct a count of the endangered vultures. The top wildlife warden for the Forest Department in India, Sameer Sinha, was quoted in this newspaper as saying, "These four predatory birds belong to…
Environment ministry presses for EVs in national parks, tiger reserves
He contented that the EVs with slight remodelling can assure smooth and silent rides with good ground clearance.
Nearly 100 whales beached in Australia; over half died.
Almost one hundred whales have been found dead after washing up on beaches in Australia. The agency shared footage taken by a drone that showed the whales gathering together and congregating into the shape of a heart just before they…
By 2030, the government hopes to restore 26 million hectares of forestland.
The government's goal is to reforest 26 million hectares of land by the year 2030. These once-diverse landscapes have become less so over time and are now considered degraded. During the G20 meeting, Bivash Rajan emphasised the necessity of…
MP govt fires top forest officer after several cheetah dies at Kuno.
After Kuno cheetah deaths, MP govt fires top forest official. The employee was fired hours after the National Tiger Conservation Authority said five adult cheetahs died naturally during the past four months.
Four lion cubs die within a week inside Etawah Safari Park in UP
At around 8.30 am on Thursday, the condition of the fourth cub started deteriorating. There was swelling in its stomach and the cub had difficulty in breathing too.
Another blow to Project Cheetah as fourth adult dies in Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park
The adult South African cheetah named Tejas died at around 3 pm on Tuesday in an enclosure, where it was housed with a Namibian female for mating.
