A farmer turned environmentalist from Waynad, Kerala, a forest officer cum social reformer at Pench tiger reserve, from Maharashtra, a cowherd from Assam who turned a sand island into a flourishing

Increasing human pressures and ecosystem changes are posing combined threat to the population of endangered Royal Bengal tigers, in Sundarbans.

Even as India is striving hard to save big cats, a total of 78 tigers have died so far this year with over half of them victims to poaching, Parliament was informed on Tuesday.

In a move to bring down the man-animal conflict and early and safe rescue of wildlife, forest department has created four new rescue teams for Indore, Dhar, Jhabua and Alirajpur.

Getting an UID is no longer just a unique human right. Tigers can have it too.

JAIPUR: In a major boost to tiger conservation, the expert committee has defined the core and buffer zones of the Mukundra sanctuary.

Man-animal conflict has led to the killing of a male tiger near the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary in north Kerala on Sunday.

The Karnataka Forest and Health authorities have alerted their counterparts in Kerala on a suspected outbreak of Kyasanoor Forest Disease (KFD), commonly known as monkey fever, in the Bandipur Tige

Forest and Environment Minister Bijayshree Routray on Tuesday informed the members in the Assembly that 250 elephants and 504 other wild animals have died in the State since 2009.

Coimbatore ACME Round Table 133 on Tuesday gave away Rs. 50,000 in compensation to 15 farmers from three forest ranges in Sathyamangalam.

The farmers would use the money to buy cattle in their effort to make good the loss of animals to tigers, said K.S. Sundararaman, chairman of the organisation. This novel initiative was aimed at conserving tigers in the three ranges, he said and explained that the compensation to the farmers was to dissuade them from poisoning carcass to kill the felines.