<p>Order of the Supreme Court in the matter of M K Ranjitsinh & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 21/03/2024. The matter related to protection of Great Indian Bustard (GIB) and Lesser Florican.</p>
After a long lull, an incident of poaching was reported in Gujarat in which unidentified persons stoned a leopard to death and then skinned and removed various body parts of the animal. The killing
In a blow to wildlife conservation in West Bengal, a project to survey dolphins in Sunderbans has been cancelled by the forest department because the state
The five-year-old white tigress of the Lahore Zoo died. Brita underwent CT scan at the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust Hospital's (Pakistan) diagnostic centre on April 17. Zoo authorities later stated
Manipur is proud of her rich avi-fauna with Mrs Hume's barred back pheasant (Syrmaticus humiae) and Blyth's tragopan found in the state being quite spectacular. The Khaleej pheasant found in Manipur
As part of an awareness campaign, a documentary titled "The Ridley's Last Stand", by Chennai based wildlife filmmaker Shekar Dattatri, was screened at the British Council recently. "Timely action can
Kokkare Bellur, 130 km away from Bangalore city, 12 km off the Bangalore-Mysore highway, draws hundreds of thousands of migratory birds - painted storks, Siberian cranes, spoon bills, grey pelicans
Worst fears of environmentalists have come true with gruelling heat killing a tiger cub and a full grown leopard at the famous Nandan Kanan zoo in Orissa in the last two days. This is the first
Thousands of baby Olive Ridley sea turtles crawled to the Bay of Bengal, as mass hatching began at the Rusikulya beach on the Orissa coast. An estimated two lakh Olive Ridleys had laid eggs on this
A notification dated April 18, sent to state chief wildlife wardens for wide publicity, allows people (not traders), who have a captive animal or bird, an article, trophy or uncured trophy derived
The German port of Hamburg has been offered $10,500 to change its name to "Veggieburg" by animal rights activists who are unhappy about the Hamburg city's association with hamburgers. "Hamburg could
