Three leopard cubs that were found in a sugarcane field near Mysuru in Karnataka on Thursday have been handed over to the forest department, officials said on Friday.
The three alleged wildlife poachers against whom a prosecution complaint was filed in a special court here were involved in the trading of Leopard skin and wildlife organs, the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) said on Thursday.
The Delhi High Court on Thursday restrained the Delhi Government from organising the proposed event Cyclothon and walkathon in the Asola Bhati Sanctuary.
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.
Authorities on Saturday urged the people living in South Delhi's Sainik Farm area to stay indoors after a leopard was spotted in the area earlier today.
ICAR-CMFRI discovered one species named Arabian sparrow seer fish (Scomberomorus avirostrus) as entirely new to science and resurrected the other, Russell's spotted seer fish (Scomberomorus leopardus), which was previously a synonym of the spotted seer fish.
A leopard who sought sanctuary inside a house at Coonoor in Tamil Nadu's Nilgiris district, fearing Diwali crackers, escaped late on Sunday, officials said.
Six people were injured after a leopard attack, including a journalist who was covering the rescue operation in Brookland near Coonoor in the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu.
The leopard was first captured in the Kudlu Gate area but a forest officer fired at it in self-defence when it tried to attack him at a veterinary hospital later and subsequently it died of bullet injuries, said forest officials.