The forest department in Assam has seized a huge cache of smuggled animal body parts from the Manas National Park and arrested five suspected poachers on Friday.
International Vulture Awareness Day was celebrated on Saturday in a unique manner at Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve with the sensitization of over 70 newly recruited forest frontline on the various species of vultures and raptors found in Assam.
The national and international organizations rasied concerns following the ban on Afghan women from visiting Band-e-Amir National Park in Bamiyan province of Afghanistan, reported TOLO News on Monday.
As the Taliban's atrocities continue to add to the miseries of the women in Afghanistan, the organisation has banned women from visiting Band-e-Amir National Park in Afghanistan’s central Bamyan province in another regressive move, according to Khaama Press.
The Yasuní National Park park spans around 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres) at the meeting point of the Amazon, the Andes and the Equator. Just one hectare of Yasuní land supposedly contains more animal species than the whole of Europe and more tree species than exist
DIG Partha Sarathi Mahanta told ANI that in a joint operation, STF, Chirang district police, and the forest department, three rhino poachers were arrested.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Thursday, took to Twitter to extend greetings on ‘World Lion Day’ and said, “India is proud to be home to the Asiatic Lions over the last few years.”
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Monday announced that very soon there will be a 32 km elevated road corridor in Kaziranga National Park and the state government will also construct a tunnel of Rs 4000 crores under the Brahmaputra river.
The Supreme Court on Monday expressed satisfaction with the Centre's effort on the cheetah issue and noted the steps taken by the Government on the issue relating to cheetahs in Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh.
“An infection caused due to the monsoon has come to our notice and we have also lost two cheetahs due to that infection. We have also shared its information with South Asia, Namibia and International experts. Now we are moving forward on its management issue,” the union minister told reporte
The cat attacked the child while he was camping with his mother at Lake Angeles, in the Heart O’ the Hills area south of Port Angeles, according to a news release from the National Park Service.