Assam elections: The state government had ordered the mobilisation of the forest force personnel to assist the Assam Police for the upcomin...

An influencer's unboxing video of live emperor scorpions highlights the booming illegal exotic animal trade in India. Despite recent legal ...

Rupa Nayak, a youtuber from Odisha, has been arrested. He allegedly uploaded a video of himself cooking a monitor lizard. Monitor lizards a...

Discover the reason behind the Annual observance of UN World Wildlife Day and the landmark CITES for protecting flora and fauna.

India established 'Tigernet' in 2009 for recording data on tiger poaching and seizure.

India has recorded the highest number of seizure of tigers and parts among all 13 tiger range countries, accounting for 44 per cent, accord...

"Poaching for meat and other products like tail hair also pose threats to populations, especially in northeast India," it says.

Police officers were imparted lessons on latest techniques and tools to effectively deal with wildlife-related crimes, especially poaching,...

Scientists have devised a series of customised drones that will monitor poaching,track wildlife and count the number of endangered species.

Delhi is not close to any of the tiger belts of the country, yet it figures among the five hotspots in India connected to big cat poaching,...

With poaching and trade in endangered animals like the tiger on the rise, the government has decided to make the Wildlife Protection Act mo...

Japan is a major importer of rare plants and animals whose international trade is restricted under a convention on endangered species, acco...

As part of efforts to counter threats to tiger population, Centre is preparing the first web-based database on the endangered species to fa...

Waking up to this menace of pet shops operating illegally, Wildlife Crime Control Bureau has now asked the state govts to chalk out a polic...

An alarming increase in the smuggling of reptiles such as monitor lizards, snakes and turtles in the Tarai belt of UP bordering Nepal has p...

The CID Forest Cell sleuths raided a highway eatery on Chikkaballapur Main Road towards Bagepalli, and recovered four live reptiles.

Authorities in Kashmir are using modern technology to check trade in shahtoosh products made from the fur of an endangered Tibetan antelope.