BENGALURU: Tourists in Hampi will soon enjoy tiger and lion safari. The safari will start in November at Atal Bihari Vajpayee Zoological Park of Hampi during Hampi Utsav. Hampi will become third safari destination in Karnataka after Bannerghatta and Tavarekoppa of Shimoga. Two lions and two tigers will be brought from Bannerghatta and Mysuru. The […]
MUMBAI: A 10-year-old male leopard named Bhandara died at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park rescue centre on Monday night following an acute illness. This is the second leopard death at the SGNP rescue centre in the past six days. Last week, a 10-month-old sub-adult male leopard, Suraj, had also died in a similar fashion. The SGNP director and chief […]
RUDRAPUR: An adult barn owl (Tyto Alba), a scheduled animal under the Wildlife Protection Act, was rescued from the building of a school in Bhagwanpur village on Kashipur Road on Friday morning. The protected bird was handed to the forest department staff later. Pran Chaddha, a wildlife enthusiast, said that finding a barn owl in a populated area was […]
JAIPUR: The State Board for Wildlife (SBWL) on Thursday gave its nod for expansion of two sanctuary areas in the state by adjoining reserve forest blocks. The decision was taken in a meeting chaired by the environment and forest minister Gajendra Singh Khimsar. Sitamata Sanctuary in Pratapgarh district and Jaisamand Sanctuary Udaipur are the two sanctuaries slated for expansion. […]
PILIBHIT :Pilibhit Tiger Reserve (PTR) authorities have set up two cages to trap two leopards which have been spotted in half a dozen villages on the Indo-Nepal border near Barahi range over the past one month. According to villagers, the leopards have so far killed more than a dozen livestock, including goats, heifers, and cows. The […]
NOIDA: Three months after it was set up, the Uttar Pradesh Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (UPWCCB) has cracked its first case — the brutal killing of a 25-year-old female elephant in Bijnor early this year. Four people have been arrested for the crime, officials said on Wednesday. However, 12 others are still at large. HV Girish, head of UPWCCB, told TOI […]
MUMBAI: New pet shop rules setting standards for animal housing and care are now in place in India. The ministry of environment, forests and climate change has now notified the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Pet Shop) rules, 2018, in the wake of a series of representations made by animal rights groups Humane Society International/India […]
PANDHARKAWADA: The first victim was an older woman, discovered facedown in a cotton field with huge claw marks dug into her back. The next was an older male farmer, his left leg torn off. The killings have gone on for more than two years, sowing panic in the hills around Pandharkawada, a town in Maharashtra’s Yavatmal […]
Challenging star Darshan has taken up the initiative to raise awareness among people to protect the environment and wildlife. The actor, who is a brand ambassador of the Forest Department, has sought to raise awareness about the conservation and protection of wildlife in his own way. According to reports, the star will be photographing animals in the wild […]
MUMBAI: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized 8,000kg shark fins worth Rs 45 crore and arrested four persons who were running an export racket. A DRI official said around 16,000 sharks would have been killed to obtain the 8-tonne consignment, which was declared as dried ray skin. In 2015, India prohibited export of shark […]
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