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'Very Very Important Chick': Meet India’s most protected newly hatched bird. Tiny life guarded like a VIP by 50 officialsA Great Indian Bustard chick hatched in Gujarat, a rare conservation success. Forest officials are providing round-the-clock protection for...
Karnataka forms task force to clear encroachments, illegal resorts in forests and western ghatsKarnataka Forest Minister Khandre had on Friday directed the forest department's additional chief secretary to issue orders for the removal...
Third tusker dies of electrocution in three days in OdishaThe middle-aged tusker came in contact with a live wire allegedly laid by a poacher in the forest area, about 500 meter away from Jagannath...
Telangana to set up 'Save Tiger Protection Force'The 112-member-armed STPF will be headed by an Assistant Conservator of Forests to protect tiger population in Amarabad and Kawal Tiger Res...
UPPSC recruitment 2018: 831 posts notified; last date to apply is August 6Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) has invited application from eligible candidates to fill 831 vacant posts.
Blackbuck poaching cases in Madhya Pradesh crawling since 1972Bhopal circle has the lion’s share of 46 cases — 15 of them between 2013 and 2015. Convictions are, however, few and far between — not even...
Students clean Odisha beach to facilitate mass nesting of turtlesSchoolchildren cleaned about 4km-long beach from Gokharakuda to Podampeta in Odisha - the famous mass nesting site for the endangered Olive...
Cruelty to elephants: Kerala Forest department warns of strong actionKerala Forest Department has warned of action against cruelty towards captive jumbos, in view of a recent SC order pointing out the need to...
- Compensate for Kutch Desert Wildlife Sanctuary land: Experts
The proposal for diverting sanctuary land for the canal project will be taken up at the first meeting of the newly-formed standing committe...
65 tiger sightings thrill volunteers in Vidarbha region's national parksThe machan census carried out in various sanctuaries, national parks and tiger reserves in Vidarbha thrilled the volunteers with a record 6...
Students from buffer villages of Pench Tiger Reserve learn lessons on nature and tiger conservationChildren from buffer villages of Pench Tiger Reserve (Maharashtra) recently attended a nature camp at Sillari in east Pench and learnt less...
- Mobile health unit for people to boost tiger conservation
In a novel effort for tiger conservation, the newly launched mobile health service has turned out helpful for those living on the fringes o...
Arunachal Pradesh to get Special Tiger Protection ForceArunachal Pradesh will soon recruit 112 personnel to raise a company of Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF) to protect the big cats from ...
- Kerala to protect sacred groves
With global warming spurring biodiversity conservation efforts, the Kerala government has started an ambitious programme to protect 'sacred...
BSF to assist forest authorities to check poaching in Kaziranga National ParkThe BSF would assist forest authorities to check poaching of wildlife at Kaziranga National Park which has witnessed unprecedented killing ...
- New anti-poaching camps to come up in Orang National Park
Alarmed over rise in the poaching of highly endangered one-horned rhinos in the Orang National Park in lower Assam, the government has deci...
Warrant against Aamir in Chinkara caseThe Gujarat forest department has handed an arrest warrant against actor Aamir Khan -- for allegedly filming chinkaras while shooting for '...