At least seven people, including administration official, sustained injuries after a wild bear attacked them in Orissa's Nuapada district, an official said on Friday.
ON JUNE 30th a doped five-year-old tiger flew 300km by helicopter, from a small Indian national park replete with tigers, Ranthambore, to a bigger park, Sariska, which had none. This was the first attempt to relocate wild tigers in India since the 1930s
Once revered, now threatened by tuberculosis, the Asian elephant in south India has found an ally in PETA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) which has issued a missive to the Union Health Ministry seeking an immediate ban on jumbo joyrides.
A Royal Bengal tigress was flown to Rajasthan's Sariska tiger reserve from the Ranthambore national park on Friday to give company to a tiger relocated there last week. The tiger was shifted from Ranthambore on June 28.
India's one-horned rhinoceros faces an uncertain future in the country's northeast, its main home, because of unending poaching and shrinking of the habitat so vital for the animal's survival.
history was created on Saturday when a 4-year old tiger was transported in Indian Air force helicopter from Ranthambhore to Sariska sanctuary and released in a cage which has been created by the forest department.
While the world's Greater adjutant stork population is declining, a recently discovered population in Bihar has been growing steadily, says Arvind Mishra, member of the State Wildlife Board.
The Sariska Tiger Reserve is ready to receive a tiger couple from Ranathambore National Park. It's now up to a team of Rajasthan wildlife department officials and experts from Wildlife Institute of India (WII) to choose the couple.
Big cats in one of India's oldest national parks could be at risk from poachers because there are not enough staff to effectively protect them, a report has warned.
In an unprecedented experiment one male tiger and two female tigers from Ranthambore National Park will be reintroduced in the Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan.
Here is some good news for wildlife lovers. In the last six years, no case of elephant deaths due to train-hit has been reported from Rajaji National Park in Uttarakhand, thanks to joint effort by the state Forest Department and the Railways.
Next time you visit the Mudumalai sanctuary, you may just have a better chance of sighting the elusive tiger. For, the count of the big cats has almost doubled in the sanctuary, which was recently designated as a tiger reserve.
The much-awaited shifting of tigers from the Ranthambhore National Park to the Sariska Tiger Reserve will take place on June 20. ''The wildlife department is working to meet the scheduled plan,'' said chief wildlife warden of Rajasthan R N Mehrotra.
Inhumane dog culling is continuing in Kerala - India - in an alleged attempt to control rabies. Citizens For Animals and WSPA member society Animal Rescue Kerala (ARK) have joined forces to draw international attention to this cruelty.
