India’s endangered tigers are being sold in Myanmar for lust potions and dark mythsMong La in Myanmar is a center for illegal wildlife trade. This trade impacts Indian forests. Poachers target tigers in areas like Maharash...
29 Jul, 2025, 01.55 PM IST
International Tiger Day 2025: Theme, why tigers are important, and how India doubled its tiger population in just a decadeGlobal Tiger Day 2025: International Tiger Day 2025 highlights tiger conservation. India, home to Royal Bengal Tigers, plays a key role. Th...
29 Jul, 2025, 09.37 AM IST
India’s tiger boom at risk: Trafficking resurges amid soaring demand for tiger bones in China & VietnamThe resurgence in tiger poaching in India, driven by rising demand for tiger bones in traditional medicines in China and Vietnam, threatens...
16 Mar, 2025, 04.07 PM IST
No nation in the world is buying more planes than India. But why?India is experiencing a significant aviation boom, with its largest airlines ordering nearly 1,000 jets this year, committing tens of billi...
02 Nov, 2023, 04.33 PM IST
AFD’s projects will go a long way in achieving environment goals: Assam Minister of Environment & ForestThe Assam Project on Forest and Biodiversity Conservation is co-funded by the AFD and the Government of Assam to pave a way for conserving ...
13 Nov, 2022, 12.01 AM IST
Assam Floods: How 2,400 rhinos in Kaziranga are fleeing for their livesWith 90% of Kaziranga National Park flooded, 2,400 one-horned rhinos are fleeing for their lives.
21 Jul, 2019, 10.33 AM IST
- Northern West Bengal: Dreamland for animal body parts traders
Though a signatory of CITES, India is still one of the major 26 global exporters of animal body parts to the main five trade routes.
03 Feb, 2017, 01.00 PM IST
Modi government's Rs 10,000 crore plan to transform Andaman and Nicobar islandsModi govt has readied a blueprint of the plan that also entails protection of the original Jarawa inhabitants while boosting the tourism po...
26 Sep, 2015, 12.31 PM IST
- Tiger habitat declined by 41 % in 17 years, says IUCN report
The Tiger's extent of occupied area is estimated at less than 1,184,911 km², a 41% decline from the area estimated in 1997.
25 Aug, 2015, 03.48 PM IST
World Land Trust raising funds for the ‘ambitious’ Chilkiya-Kota elephant corridorWorld Land Trust is an international conservation charity, which protects the world’s most biologically important and threatened habitats a...
29 Sep, 2014, 06.55 PM IST
India urged to increase park security to protect rhinosConcerned over growing incidents of poaching of rhinos, five Asian rhino range nations in a resolution asked India to take measures, includ...
06 Oct, 2013, 02.43 PM IST
Madhya Pradesh on global poaching map, officials wink, smugglers revelMadhya Pradesh is a crucial link in the international poaching corridor straddling Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Nepal and Tibet.
19 Sep, 2013, 01.31 AM IST
China steps up protection of tigersUnder attack for not cracking down on the use of tiger body parts in traditional medicine, China has finalized two separate agreements with...
30 Jul, 2013, 11.12 PM IST
- Experts want CBI to probe tiger poaching case
Poachers killed 10 tigers between 2002 and 2004 in Sariska in Rajasthan wiping out the entire population of big cats in the tiger reserve.
19 Jun, 2013, 02.16 AM IST
Russian team in Pench, Kanha to learn tiger conservationNational Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and Russia have already formed a subgroup on tiger and leopard conservation and signed a pact....
20 Feb, 2013, 01.00 PM IST
Not enough to invest in protecting tiger, but invest in local communities: Richard BransonBy mobilising resources to protect tigers' migration corridors and education of surrounding communities, they can lift themselves out of po...
25 Nov, 2011, 06.35 AM IST
- Hospitals hiring executives from the hospitality sector
As competition among private hospitals intensifies, the industry looks at other sectors to help with professional management.
11 Feb, 2011, 02.54 AM IST