Former field director of Ranthambore National Park and Sariska Tiger Reserve Fateh Singh Rathore will be conferred a lifetime achievement award on Wednesday by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) India for his contributions to save and conserve the big cat.

Kathmandu - A wild tiger fitted with a global positioning system (GPS) collar was translocated for the first time in Nepal, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) confirmed.

The world's primary conservation body, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), on January 7 called on British listed companies, SOCO and Dominion, to abandon their oil exploration plans in the Virunga National Park located in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The WWF warned that these actions will undermine decades of work aimed at saving the park, which receives vital funding from the European Union.

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Jaipur: This may be good news for the environment of Rajasthan.

Mamallapuram: The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) is planning to get down to cleaning the Gange river in order to revive the freshwater dolphin population, Union minister for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh said on Monday during a visit to the crocodile bank on the East Coast Road near Chennai.

The cats in your para may be multiplying but at least one of the four cat species found in and around Calcutta is vanishing along with the wetlands the animals thrive on.

Wildlife specialists have no clue about the population of the fast-disappearing fishing cats, which have been spotted in the marshy areas on the city outskirts, and in Howrah and Hooghly as well as the Sunderban swamps.

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Poaching of fish in the Harike Wetlands, where the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) intends to conduct a bio-monitoring project, threatens to endanger the wildlife habitat in the sanctuary.

Information with The Indian Express reveals that in the last two months alone, authorities have booked five people under the Wildlife Protection Act for poaching and destruction of the wildlife habitat in Harike.