A red alert has been issued across Sundarbans to stop poaching and trafficking of wildlife, including the Royal Bengal Tiger and deer, from the enlisted UNESCO world heritage site.
Confirming that matter to Dhaka Tribune on Monday, Khulna Zone Forest Conservator Moinuddin Khan said the entire Sundarban region has been brought…
When 25-year-old e-rickshaw driver Javed Ali went out for work on the morning of November 23 last year, he had little idea that he would return home with the nightmarish experience of a scar, caused by a tiger’s claw, on his hamstring. Ali was one among the thousands of curious…
The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change has sought a reply from the Congress-led Chhattisgarh government in connection with the livestock holding facility constructed in the core areas of designated Achankmar Tiger Reserve (ATR) of Mungeli district.
Taking cognisance of the issue after a local journalist flagged the alleged…
It has been over two months now that the virtual tug-of-war between the Rajaji Tiger Reserve (RTR) authorities and the has been ongoing over the speed of trains in an 18-km patch of the 52 km stretch between Haridwar and Dehradun. The 18-km stretch comes under the tiger reserve and…
The study published in journal of Molecular Biology and Evolution published on February 16 suggests that there is inbreeding among Indian tigers, which is a result of isolated populations due to habitat loss.
A new research paper has concluded that fragmentation of habitat has already disrupted the natural evolutionary process in…
Telangana’s wildlife sanctuaries and tiger habitats are set to bear the brunt of the State’s fight against Left Wing Extremism (LWE). The State government has proposed to develop roads via Eturnagaram and Pranahita wildlife sanctuaries, and the tiger corridor connecting Kawal, Tadoba and Indravati tiger reserves, under the LWE affected…
The Supreme Court Thursday stayed an order of Jim Corbett National Park allowing buses of a private operator in the core area of the Tiger reserve in Uttarakhand.
A bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde and Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian issued notice to the Centre, Uttarakhand, National Tiger Conservation…
Shocking footage of the state of wildlife in India. In the absence of efficient waste management systems, India is grappling with a mammoth garbage problem. Thousands of tonnes of untreated and unsegregated waste pollute the country’s land, water and air, while serving as toxic foraging grounds for a plethora of…
A recent successful village relocation programme that provided much needed inviolate spaces for tigers at Sariska (STR) was presented at a two-day conference conducted by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) in Nagpur. The chief wildlife warden (CWLW), Mohan Lal Meena in his presentation informed that STR administration has entirely…
The Sundarbans plays a motherly role in protecting Bangladesh from natural disasters. The Sundarbans has become essential to our lives for a variety of reasons. The Sundarbans is the largest delta in the world and one of the longest saline wetlands and a very important ecosystem rich in biodiversity. Its…
The terrible glacier disaster in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district once again started the conversation around reckless developmental activities that are major contributors to unfortunate calamities, even if not always the prime cause of their occurrence.
While the exact cause behind the Uttarakhand tragedy is still being ascertained, these events are a grim…
