NAGPUR: In a big boost to the forest department's efforts to strengthen protection mechanism, Mumbai-based Wildlife Conservation Trust (WCT) has announced a series of measures to save tigers in buffer and corridor areas in Maharashtra. It includes radio-collaring of tigers and leopards involved in c
A 7th big cat has died in InSync Exotics Wildlife Rescue and Education Center in Dallas due to an outbreak of canine distemper that infected the tigers and lions in June. Tacoma, the last animal to die on Sunday, was a 15-year-old tiger who was described as the 'soul' of the sanctuary. More than a
NAGPUR: National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has asked all the chief wildlife wardens (CWLWs) of tiger range states to take urgent measures for preventing wild animal mortality due to train hits.
The move follows a 10-month-old tiger cub getting killed and another getting seriously injure
The international animal welfare organization WSPA, together with local organization Asociatia Milioane De Prieteni (AMP), have rescued 2 bears from the Onesti Zoo in Romania. In November 2012, the WSPA was able to rescue the 3 youngest bears from their imprisonment and move them to a WSPA-funded be
PUNE: Researchers are studying the migration corridors of tigers in the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR), focusing on the landscape outside the protected areas to cut down man-animal conflict.
"We want to understand the movement of tigers at a landscape level. We will try to look at how the ar
