The North American total solar eclipse of 2017 was a landmark event. Attracting both lay people and scientists in droves, it saw many people turn their gazes to the sky. For a group of researchers however, the elements of interest were bees. For the first time, the behavior of bees in solar eclipses was tracked […]
50 Smuggled Star Tortoises To Return Back To India
50 rare star tortoises that were seized from wildlife traders and being cared for by a Singapore based conservation organisation, are all set to return back into the wild. The organisation ACRE is planning to transport these tortoises back to their native country India next month. Read More: Over 1000 Tortoises Rescued In Bangalore From […]
Chinese Tourists Stopped From Smuggling 15 Shahtoosh Shawls
According to an official statement by customs department, New Delhi, two Chinese women tourists aged about 41 and 39 were detained for trying to smuggle out 15 shahtoosh shawls worth Rs. 45 lakhs as they were set to leave for Shanghai from New Delhi airport on the 18th October, 2018. Read More: Rare Himalayan Serow […]
Snow Leopard Habitat Mapped In J&K For The First Time
For the first time in Jammu & Kashmir, the habitat of the snow leopard has been mapped. The move is expected to facilitate the conservation of the threatened feline. The survey has found that the species possesses a much wider distribution than was previously believed. Read More: 4 Reasons Why Climate Change Is Bad For […]
Bijnor Seizure Unearths Massive Mongoose Massacre
Over 56,000 paintbrushes and 145 kg of mongoose fur were seized in Sherkot in Bijnore beginning of October, unearthing a massacre of unimaginable proportions. According to the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), the consignment represents the death of 10,000 mongooses for making paintbrushes out of their fur. 6 arrests were made in the process, guided […]
Rare Himalayan Serow Clicked For The First Time In Kashmir
The Zabarwan Range is a short sub-mountain range between Pir Panjal and Great Himalayan Range in the central part of the Kashmir Valley. Last week when two friends, Sheikh Riyaz and Mudassir Manzoo went for a hike in the mountains, they had little idea they would spot an animal that has been hardly ever seen or […]
Uttar Pradesh To Axe 50,000 Trees In Tiger Habitat To Build A Road
One would assume that the recent floods of Kerala would be a good learning lesson for the nation to think twice before playing with nature. But yet again, the news of the state government of Uttar Pradesh planning to axe prime forest trees to build a road on the Indo-Nepal border, seems to show otherwise. […]
From Kolkata To Munnar, The Race To Save Live Corals
It was a strange predicament for the officers of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) few days back when they seized 20 live corals from a house in Kolkata. Unlike other species usually rescued by them that can be released in safe habitats locally, in order to save the corals, the officers have to restore […]
Caught In Their Silky Web
Did you know there is a spider found in India that looks exactly like an ant, a mimicry that helps the spider save itself from predators? There is also a spider from the genus Lycosa that lives in the leaf litter near water bodies. To save her eggs from drowning,the mother spider carries them on […]
Tigers Sighted In New Forest Regions Of Odisha
The Royal Bengal Tiger has been sighted in 3 new forest regions of Odisha. This was announced by the State Forest and Environment Ministry, Bijayashree Routray. Mr. Routray said that movement of tigers captured by closed-circuit television cameras installed at the Hemgiri forest in Sundargarh and Debrigarh sanctuaries in Sambalpur districts was direct evidence of […]
23 Lions Now Dead in Gir, Few Because Of Canine Distemper Virus
It has been a devastating September and the news of more lion deaths continue to come in October from Gir National Park in Gujarat. Two more lions passed away on October 2nd taking the toll to a total of 23 lions dying between September 12 and October 2. It has now come to light that […]