After 75 years, Indian Gharial spotted in Greater Kaziranga during surveyThe forest department confirmed the presence of Indian Gharial in Greater Kaziranga after 75 years. The survey along the Brahmaputra discov...
22 Feb, 2024, 10.37 PM IST
America's largest reptile sanctuary wants to import gharials from IndiaThe Phoenix Herpetological Society has applied for permission from the US Fish and Wildlife Service, according to a federal notification is...
18 Jul, 2023, 10.25 AM IST
White Deer in UP's wildlife sanctuary stuns netizensIndian Forest Service officer, Akash Deep Badhawan, recently shared an image of rare albino deer in the Katarniya Ghat Wildlife Sanctuary, ...
12 Mar, 2023, 07.47 PM IST
A fifth of world's reptile species deemed threatened with extinctionMany reptiles are being pushed to the brink, the researchers said, by factors similarly imperiling the world's other land vertebrates - amp...
27 Apr, 2022, 08.53 PM IST
Lease of life: The 185-km long Beas Conservation Reserve is helping protect many endangered aquatic speciesToday, the Beas in Punjab is the only Indian habitat of the functionally blind mammal, which uses echolocation to navigate underwater and h...
23 Feb, 2020, 09.22 AM IST
Extinction Watch: Top predators Gharials may vanish in near futureDamned if It Does! Dams, barrages, and water abstraction have altered the quantity and quality of water available to downstream river secti...
24 Jan, 2020, 01.47 PM IST
Camp in Terai region & spot wild animals in their natural habitatThe Terai region is a haven for wildlife, and it stretches in northern India and southern Nepal.
21 Jan, 2016, 08.06 AM IST
Punjab to release gharials in rivers to promote eco-tourismPunjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Friday approved release of gharials in Sutlej and Beas rivers in the state to promote eco-tour...
11 May, 2015, 05.48 PM IST
Endangered Indian Skimmer finds new home in Satpura National ParkEndangered Indian Skimmer, which is fighting for its survival, seems to have found a new home at Satpura National Park. Around seven birds ...
09 Mar, 2015, 05.49 PM IST
Satkosia wildlife sanctuary: No live fish on gharials’ menuGharials, considered a critically endangered species, survive on live fish. But Satkosia wildlife sanctuary authorities are facing a shorta...
01 Dec, 2014, 10.17 AM IST
- Sightings of endangered birds: Experts upbeat
Experts have reported sighting of endangeredmigrant species of birds in ongoing annual endangered aquatic animal census, which began on Feb...
18 Feb, 2014, 04.06 AM IST
Study finds rare turtles, gharials in parts of YamunaThe filthy stretch of Yamuna in Delhi is often not acknowledged to be a river at all. But wildlife researchers studying the Yamuna say that...
27 Jul, 2013, 07.45 PM IST
- Croc bank to chip in for online zoo database
The Madras Crocodile Bank Trust (MCBT) has joined an international initiative to preserve endangered wildlife by contributing data to the l...
26 Sep, 2012, 04.17 AM IST
- Gharial found dead in Katarniaghat wildlife sanctuary
A gharial, categorised as critically endangered species, was found dead near Gerua village in Katarniaghat wildlife sanctuary, a senior for...
22 Feb, 2012, 01.37 PM IST
- Gharials may not be released in Chambal
Environmentalists and conservationists may find hard to digest the forest department’s decision not to release a new set of gharial (alliga...
21 Nov, 2008, 02.17 PM IST
- Pollution fallout? Tail-less gharials
A tail-less gharial has hatched at gharial rehabilitation centre at Kukrail for the first time in its entire history of approximately three...
14 Jun, 2008, 03.23 AM IST
- Experts looking into gharial deaths in UP sanctuary
Extensive tests are being carried out on the carcasses of gharials found dead at the National Chambal Sanctuary of Uttar Pradesh to look in...
01 Apr, 2008, 12.45 PM IST