Border Security Force, in a joint operation with Tripura Police and forest officials, destroyed approximately 65000 matured cannabis plants cultivated in 10 hectares of land spread on Wednesday.
Andhra Pradesh Forest officials arrested three people for illegal wildlife trafficking in Srikakulam on Tuesday. Intercepting their vehicle, the officials seized rare species of animals.
An 8-year-old deceased leopard was found dead in the Amaragiri forest area of Kolhapur in Nagarkurnool district. The forest officials have shifted the deceased Leapeard to Post-Mortem Examination (PME) center and are awaiting the reports.
On Saturday morning, a tigress identified as T-83 was caged and tranquillized by forest officials in the Chichpalli forest range of Chandrapur district. The operation conducted due to increasing tigress' movements in human residential settlements.
Forest department officials are diligently working to capture the sixth "killer" wolf as part of the 'Operation Bhediya' campaign, aimed at capturing a pack responsible for nine deaths and 50 injuries since July.
Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan on Wednesday said that drones are being deployed to provide food and water to the flood-affected area in the state.
A massive search operation is currently underway in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district, as wildlife authorities and forest officials scramble to capture a pack of wolves that have been wreaking havoc. With four wolves already successfully caught, the operation is now focused on tracking do
An 11-foot-long King Cobra was rescued from a house at Bangra village in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district. Later the forest officials released it into the Dukra wildlife range in the district Tuesday morning.
In a tragic incident, an elephant died after being electrocuted by an illegal electric fence in Tamil Nadu's Virudhunagar district, said forest officials.
A special team consisting of army officials, SOG officials and forest officials have been conducting a search operation at Sunrise Valley in Soojippara, inside the forest on Thursday.
Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma inaugurated the dissemination workshop for forest officials on 'Forest Survey & Mapping for Meghalaya Using Hybrid System to Analyse Carbon Financing and Phyto-Diversity Heat Map & Provisions of the BD Act (Amendment)' here on Friday.