With the monsoons knocking on the doors, forest authorities of Melghat Tiger Reserve in Amravati district of Maharashtra have decided to deploy citizen volunteers in the Jarida range of the reserve to improve patrolling. The reserve serves as an important corridor between the forests of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. The project is currently in its […]
Poor Genes a Threat to Future of Tigers
This new research will shock all in love with the tiger and striving to save it from extinction. Comparing the DNA samples of ancient tiger skins with the DNA of present day tigers, scientists have found that the modern tigers have a very poor genetic diversity. For an endangered animal, this becomes yet another threat […]
By 2080 Climate Change might Eat Away Most Plants and Animals
It is the year 2080 and it is not the world you would like to live in. Planet Earth is a lot hotter and a lot less greener with more than half of common plants and one third of the animals that we easily see today, becoming rare or extinct. This is the alarming prediction […]
E-surveillance to track Tiger movements
To tackle tiger-train collision problems, government plans e-surveillance.
Environment Ministry rejects Proposed Highway Expansion for Tigers
The proposed expansion of Bhopal-Nagpur Highway is rejected. Read how it is good news for tigers and other widlife.
In the Business of Killing
There was a time in India when Emperors surrounded by their noblemen would mount the back of an elephant and venture into the jungles to kill a beast. The time of these erstwhile trigger friendly maharajas may well have gone, but the hunt for animals is still on and has taken an uglier shape than ever. It is not royalties anymore but commoners who kill for profit. Wildlife crime is today is a profitable business and the biggest threat to animals and the survival of the planet itself.
Interesting Endangered Animal Facts from A to Z
From Asian elephants to a sawfish called zijsron, get to know interesting facts about Indian endangered species from A to Z!
2012 Worst Poaching Year for India
The year that went by could have been remembered for being the year that Western Ghats became a world heritage site or the year when Asiatic Lions were no more considered Critically Endangered. But ruining the joys of all the positive is one scar constantly surfacing as a conservationist’s worst nightmare. 2012 recorded the largest number of killings of endangered animals in India making it the worst poaching year in the last decade.
New Adventures Begin for Twins of Ranthambore
They were just three months old when the twin tigresses lost their mother. Raised by their unusually caring father, the ladies have come a long way quite literally by leaving their birth place Ranthambore and now beginning a new life in the jungles of Sariska after the forest department trans-located the two this week.
Villagers Rescue Tigeress Caught in a Fence
“It’s a tiger!” someone shouted and soon the whole village of Nidugumba was wide awake alerted by the predator’s presence.
Google gives 5 Million Dollars to WWF for its War against Wildlife Crime
Poachers’ task to wipe away wildlife in Asia and Africa, has just been made tougher by Google. World Wildlife Fund (WWF) today received a major grant from Google to use state-of-the-art technology to help protect endangered species like elephants, rhinos and tigers from poachers and wildlife traffickers.