Five members of a family, including two children, had a harrowing time when they became trapped inside a room for about two hours after a leopard entered their house and roamed around in the Malviya Nagar industrial area of Rajasthan's Jaipur on Tuesday morning.
The meeting was held in Haldwani, following a massive fire that broke out in the Ladiyakata area of the Nainital Air Force Centre on Friday and continued for over 36 hours, sweeping through dense forests in the mountainous region.
The southern state of Tamil Nadu has recently established Asia's largest Butterfly Conservatory, known as the Tropical Butterfly Conservatory, spanning 25 acres, in the Upper Anaicut Reserve Forest area between the Cauvery and Kollidam rivers drainage basins. District Forest Officer of Trich
Research-oriented biodiversity conservation organisation 'Aaranyak' has launched a vital training programme on Hoolock Gibbon conservation strategy at the Gibbon Conservation Centre of the Hoollongapar Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam's Jorhat district.
In a joint operation, Assam Police and the forest department rescued 52 smuggled Indonesian birds and animals, including Black Lori birds, Red and Blue Lories, Babirusa Swine and Hornbills, from Hailakandi district along the Assam-Mizoram border.
Two forest department staffers were injured when poachers fired at them in Odisha's Balasore district late on Monday, police officials said. The two poachers were arrested.
The forest officials in Jodhpur have traced the movement of leopard near the Sursagar area. "Efforts are ongoing to tranquilize the large cat. We will capture the big cat soon," an official said.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Monday distributed appointment letters to a total of 84 candidates for various posts under the state government.