Forest officials rescued a tiger after tranquillizing him as he was entangled in a fence wire in a private farm at Kottioour, Panniyamala in Kannur district, said K Karthik Divisional Forest Officer, Kannur.
In a joint operation by a team of Special Task Force (STF), Kandhamal forest officials and police in the Kandhamal district of Odisha, a man was arrested for illegal poaching of wild animals, said an official statement by the police on Monday.
Found only in 12 countries across the globe, that too at high levels, forest officials earlier this week found the estranged snow leopard aged 25 months from the Southern Plains of Nepal.
A local court in Dediapada in Narmada district on December 18 sent Chaitar to judicial custody at the end of the three-day police remand in the November 2 case of alleged extortion and assault of forest officials.
The leopard who allegedly killed two people and injured four in the past 15 days in Nilgiri district's Pandalur area has been captured, forest officials said.
Forest officials in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) saved a wild elephant calf who was found separated from the mother and herd and was roaming on a private estate.
In a rare sight, a tiger resting atop a wall in Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit drew a massive crowd. Yawning and basking in the winter Sun, the big cat was unfazed by the presence of people before being rescued by forest officials on Tuesday.
A team of veterinary doctor and forest officials are engaged in treatment of an injured elephant in Assam's Nagaon district, getting a positive response from the tusker as it has undergone a remarkable recovery in last couple of weeks.
Hours after authorities urged residents in South Delhi's Sainik Farm area to stay indoors after a leopard was spotted, the big cat was sighted a second time in the same location.