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Meet the true kings of rest! From koalas to pythons, these 10 animals spend most of their day asleep. Discover which creatures outnap the rest in the wild snooze league.
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Wildlife trafficking is a global crisis. From forests to oceans, countless animals are hunted and traded illegally. These animals face extinction as demand for their body parts rises. Let’s explore the world’s most trafficked animals.
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Meanwhile, 349 people were killed in tiger attacks during this period, with Maharashtra alone recording 200 deaths.
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Two tigers died in Maharashtra's Vidarbha within 48 hours on Tuesday. One of the tigers died during a fight between two tigers in the Chandrapur district, while the other died due to a heart attack after being tranquillized in the Ramtek forests. The incident took place in the Ramtek forest park of Nagpur district when a tiger, which had been hunting animals for the last few months, posed a danger to the lives of the villagers. Watch!
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Malaysia’s 2024 Academy Awards entry Tiger Stripes, Amanda Nell Eu’s debut film about puberty and monsters, inspired by 1950s horror cult Pontianak by BN Rao, showed in India after screening at AFI Fest 2023.
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Given the busy season, forest officials at Jim Corbett National Park are working overtime to catch the predator — the cub has tasted human flesh, its mother was a maneater, too.
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The Indian part of the Sunderbans with 54 islands has a population of about 40 lakh and around 100 tigers, according to government data.
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According to the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), 75 tigers have died this year so far, while 127 had died last year, the highest in the 2012-2022 period.
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According to data presented by Union Minister of State for Environment Ashwini Kumar Choubey in Lok Sabha on Monday, 96 tigers died in 2019, 106 in 2020 and 127 in 2021.
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The video has since gone viral with many Twitter users equating the tiger's massive leap from the boat into the sea with a scene from the 2012 movie 'Life of Pi'.
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Over 60 international artists including India’s Subodh Gupta, Bharti Kher, and Michelle Poonawalla are showcasing their tigers in Singapore.
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In a series of tweets, the prime minister said India's strategy of tiger conservation attaches topmost importance to involving local communities.
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Speaking after releasing an over 600-page report of the fourth All India Tiger Estimation 2018 on the eve of Global Tiger Day, he said India is proud of its tiger achievements and despite scarcity of land and rainfall, it boasts of eight percent of world's biodiversity.
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Chief Wildlife Warden Ravi Kant Sinha said a control room has been set up at Gosaba area in the district by the forest department to monitor the situation in the mangrove jungles 24x7.
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The directive has come after a four-year-old female Malayan tiger tested positive for coronavirus.
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International Tiger Day was first founded at the International Tiger Summit in St Petersburg, Russia
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Tigress Avni, believed to have been responsible for the deaths of 13 people in Maharashtra in the past two years, was shot dead in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra
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A renewed thrust by Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to protect cows, worshipped by majority Hindus, has closed abattoirs in Maharashtra, making it hard for farmers to sell their animals, and restrictions are spreading to other states.
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Notwithstanding efforts by the government to conserve tigers, as many as 32 big cats have died in the country in the last over four months, even as the latest official data showed an increasing trend in the national animals population estimates.
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Several animal species including gorillas in Rwanda and tigers in Bangladesh could risk extinction if the impact of climate change and extreme weather on their habitats is not addressed, a UN report showed on Sunday.
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Asia's tiger reserves could support more than 10,000 wild tigers - three times the current number - if they were managed as large-scale areas that allowed movement between breeding sites, according to a study.
