A two year old asiatic lion cub is rescued from a well in the village of Amrapur located about a hundred miles from Gir sanctuary Ahmedabad: The Gujarat government has initiated a process to establish a new Shetrunji Wildlife Division outside the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary, ensuring the endangered Asiatic lions a bigger safety cover. Expanding […]
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Set up by the forest department, Tau Devi Lal Biodiversity Park delights and enlightens visitors. Spread across an area of 19 acre, 27 species of butterflies, including plain tiger, common emigrant, mottled emigrant, small gross-yellow, peacock pansy, lemon pansy, common pierrot, blue pansy, and great eggfly, can be spotted at the park, which has an […]
Cape Town: A young lion captured after being on the run for almost a month spent the night in a South African police cell before being moved back to its national park home. The juvenile male apparently escaped from the Karoo National Park through a hole in a perimeter fence. He was eventually tracked and […]
Two leopards fighting over turf fell into a 50-ft well in Pune district. A team of wildlife SOS and forest officials rescued the male adult felines, about seven years old, using trap cages in a three-hour effort. “The leopards sustained superficial injuries and are under observation,” said veterinarian Ajay Deshmukh.
Navi Mumbai: A leopard was found trapped in a ‘jaw trap’ set up by poachers in Jeur Haibati village located in Ahmednagar district. The feline’s left forelimb was caught in the lethal hunting device and was rescued by Wildlife SOS and the forest department. The injured leopard, is currently under medical care at a transit […]
A TALE OF TWO NATIONAL PARKS RANTHAMBORE Big Cats 69 Area 392 sq km (plus 1,342 sq km buffer) History – Established as Sawai Madhopur Game Sanctuary in 1955 – Declared tiger reserve in 1973 – National park in 1980 Funds Project Tiger (2018-19): Rs 6.45 crore (partially released) State govt (2018-19): Rs 33.5 crore […]
Govt apathy, fund and staff crunch, poor infrastructure and a falling tiger count may ruin this tiger reserve in Rajasthan forever SARISKA: It has been a long journey for a soulmate, and a hectic week, for tigress ST-9. From deep within the Sariska Tiger Reserve(STR) at Sarunda, the tigress travelled to Chamari Ka Bera, 25km […]
PUNE: A nine-week-old leopard cub that got separated from its mother was safely reunited in a recent operation carried out by Wildlife SOS and the forest department near Nagapur village located in Pune district. After a thorough medical examination by the cub was found to be healthy and fit for release.
Panna National Park was the second tiger reserve in India after Sariska to loose all its native tigers. Though tigers were repopulated in Sarsika before Panna, the latter has three times the number of the tigers in the former.
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