Tiger kills man outside reserve forest in Bihar
Patna: A tiger attacked and killed a man on Tuesday in a paddy field near the Valmiki Tiger Reserve (VTR) in West Champaran district in Bihar, a forest official said. The victim, Sohan Mahto, was attacked and killed by a tiger in a paddy field The victim, Sohan Mahto, was attacked and killed by a tiger in a paddy field near Bagahi village outside the More...
Three elephants mowed down by speeding truck in Odisha
Bhubaneswar: Three elephants were killed after being hit by a speeding truck on National Highway 20 in Odisha’s Keonjhar district early on Thursday, a forest official said. At around 2 am last night, the mishap More...
Nepal national park uses app for rhino conservation
Kathmandu: The Bardiya National Park in Nepal has started using a mobile app for the conservation of one-horned rhinos. The app will help receive vital information about rhinos According to park officials, the app More...
Govt site features wildlife in tune with ‘Man vs Wild’ show
New Delhi: The Tourism Ministry on Sunday updated the Incredible India website to boost wildlife tourism. The episode is intended to create awareness about animal conservation and environmental change The website More...
MP tops tiger population table, growth in Uttarakhand terrific
Dehradun: Uttarakhand may have come third in terms of tiger population in the latest census, but the state has registered an excellent tiger population growth in the past 13 years. Wildlife experts claimed the population More...
Hangul numbers ‘alarming’, but not beyond redemption
Srinagar: Hangul or the Indian elk found exclusively in the higher rises of the Kashmir Valley is said to be in the red zone. A senior wildlife warden who has spent over a decade looking after their population inside More...
10-year-old, mother trampled to death by tuskers in Jharkhand
Ranchi: A 10-year-old girl and her mother were on Tuesday trampled to death by elephants in Jharkhand’s Giridih district. Many other houses in the village were also damaged According to police, a herd of rampaging More...
Tiger carcass found in UP’s Lakhimpur Kheri canal
Lakhimpur Kheri: Carcass of an adult tigress was found floating in a canal in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district. The age of the tigress was around five years According to reports, local people on Wednesday More...
Wild tuskers to be tranquilized, shifted back to Nepal
Bareilly: Not only have they created havoc by destroying crop, they have also killed as many as five people in Tarai region and now the culprits would be immobilised and transported back to their native land. The More...
Man-eating leopard trapped in Uttarakhand’s Pauri
Dehradun: Locals of Uttarakhand’s Pauri district heaved a sigh of relief on Tuesday when they came to know that the man-eating leopard that had unleashed a reign of terror in the area has been finally caged More...