Bal Pandi feeds orphan pelican chicks

Koonthankulam (Tamil Nadu): It is not too difficult to find people making a living working for the disadvantaged, but it is indeed rare to find someone who gives up his earnings or even sells his possessions for the welfare of others. More so, if [...]

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File photo: Sansar Chand (second from left)

Six years’ imprisonment and 50,000 rupees fine for Sansar Chand
New Delhi: Setting an unprecedented milestone in the history of wildlife crime cases in India, the notorious wildlife trader Sansar Chand was today sentenced to six years’ imprisonment – the maximum prison term mandated [...]

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File photo: A Royal Bengal tiger

Delhi: To secure a critical tiger habitat in Central India, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has pressed for the notification of Mansingh Deo Wildlife Sanctuary in a letter addressed to the Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan.
A part of the Kanha-Pench landscape, Mansingh Deo connects Pench [...]

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File photo: Sansar Chand (second from left)

New Delhi: In a rare verdict convicting one of the country’s most infamous wildlife criminals, Sansar Chand was yesterday held guilty by a city court hearing a 15-year-old case of illegal possession of a leopard skin.

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The king cobra ‘rescued’ from a house near Haldibari Reserve Forest, Assam, awaits release at the IFAW-WTI run Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC)

Haldibari (Assam): A 13-feet long king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) accidentally trapped in a house near Haldibari Reserve Forest in Assam, was ‘rescued’ by the Forest Department authorities assisted by International Fund [...]

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