On International Tiger Day today Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the All India Tiger Estimation Report 2018 revealing that India now has 2967 tigers in the wild. This is 33 percent growth in the tiger population from the last census conducted in 2014. The Prime Minister said that India had achieved its target of doubling the […]
For the animals of Kaziranga National Park, the floods arrive like clockwork. The summers precede the rains and the rains precede the floods – the annual boon and bane that is as much a necessity as nature’s execration that forces some to perish and some to rise above and survive. This year till now the […]
30 June 2019 – 07 July 2019 Impressed Tortoise Seen for the First Time in India Bunty Tao, a ranger under the Hapoli forest division in Arunachal Pradesh’s Kamle district, saw the tortoise in the hands of one of the villagers. He rescued it and thought this one was different. “I’ve seen turtles and tortoises […]
It can be grey, black or cinnamon coloured. It can have leopard-like rosettes or ocelot-like markings on its coat. Or the Asiatic Golden Cat can be golden coloured true to its name. For the first time ever, scientists have discovered that this threatened species of wild cat found in India can have six different colour […]
When Rohan Pandit and Wangchu Phiang accidentally stumbled upon a brown snake on a steep slope of a forest in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh in India, little did they know that the reptile had never been formally described before. Now, in a new paper, researchers have described this snake as a new-to-science species of […]
Horned Frogs are named so because of their pointy upper eyebrows but for centuries, there has been a confusion regarding their classification. In North East India for over 150 years a single species – the Jerdon’s white lipped horned frog, represented the entire family, but Dr Stephen Mahony, a National Museum (UK) scientist knew there […]
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 […]
Here are some of the most amazing species of animals that are not only endemic to India but found only in one place in the country! Take a look… 1. Narcondam Hornbill Found only in Narcondam Island, east of Andaman Islands In the tiny 6.82 square km island of Narcondam in the Indian Ocean, lives […]
Quick Notes Raids conducted in different parts of the state in June reveal 6 cases of large wildlife seizures in just a month Wildlife trades include rare and protected species like the pied hornbill, slow loris, great Indian hornbill, bear, tiger, tokay gecko etc. Bengal is used as a hub and a transit point by […]
Keep up with the unspoken tales of India’s forest rangers. From the sand to the sea, the hills and the green. So run the lines from the brilliant new digital series called ‘Ranger Ranger’, a long-term multimedia reporting project led by Sonali Prasad, in creative collaboration with platform mukha.co. Since last August, Ranger Ranger has […]
The Himalayan Quail is a bird from the upper Himalayas in India which was last seen in 1876. The pink headed duck a mysterious duck with pink head and neck was last spotted in 1949. Just like these two there are at least 1200 other species globally that exist and are not really extinct but […]
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