Annual exercise:The census will also analyse the prey base of the big cats.

The data will also be used to study habitat share by co-predators like leopard and hyena

KERI: The recently concluded six-day field exercise of the All India Tiger Estimation has confirmed the presence of the big cat in the Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary.

Experts are counting the endangered mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwestern Uganda, seven years after the last census was held.

Plans to estimate tiger population in South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries like Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal is in jeopardy as the neighbouring tiger range states have

Nainital: In a first, Uttarakhand forest department has included Kedarnath, Nainital and parts of Pithoagarh and Tehri forest divisions in the ongoing tiger census.

Estimation will kick off on Tuesday, when forest department officials, along with 77 volunteers, will begin a field survey.

New research has found that Bornean elephants most often use degraded forests with canopy heights topping out at around 13 meters (43 feet).

MORIGAON: A total of 102 rhinos have been counted in Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary here during a census carried out by the state's forest department, a senior official said on Sunday.

Monitoring flying-foxes is challenging as their extreme mobility produces highly dynamic population processes, considerable logistic difficulty, and variability in estimated population size. We report on methods for inferring population trend for the population of the spectacled flying-fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) in Australia.

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GANDHINAGAR: The Gujarat government today admitted in the Legislative Assembly that 32 Asiatic lions died due to "unnatural causes" such as falling into wells in the last two years in and around Gi

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