Chennai, Oct 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a bid to reduce the human-animal conflict and to prevent herbivores like wild elephants and Indian Guar reaching the human settlements, Tamil Nadu forest department has drawn an ambitious plan…
Canberra, Oct 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) The bright green-coloured critically endangered Swift Parrot was announced as the winner of the 2023 Australian Bird of the Year on Friday after winning more than 11,000 votes in a biennial…
Kolkata, Oct 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Calcutta High Court has ruled that henceforth, the West Bengal Forest Department will have to pay compensation to the families of those killed by tiger attacks in the “core areas”…
Itanagar, Oct 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Three indigenous products from Arunachal Pradesh – Yak Churpi, Khamti rice and Tangsa textile – have been granted the prestigious Geographical Indication (GI) tag by the GI Registry, Chennai, officials said…
Mysuru, Oct 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) A farmer in Karnataka’s Mysuru district was killed in a tiger attack when he had gone to a forest area under the Nagarahole National Park and Tiger Reserve for grazing his…
Gadag (Karnataka), Oct 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) An incident of a crocodile dying after coming under the train was reported from the Gadag district of Karnataka on Monday, authorities said. The incident had taken place in Hale…
Lucknow, Oct 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a joint operation, the police authorities thwarted an attempt to smuggle over 800 prohibited birds from the Chidiya Bazaar in the Nakkhas area of the state capital. A team, including…
Ahmedabad, Oct 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) A rare sight of an Asiatic lion taking a stroll along the shores of the Arabian Sea in Gujarat’s Junagadh, has taken the internet by storm. In a photograph that has…
Guwahati, Oct 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) A carcass of a rhino was found in Assam’s Nagaon district on Sunday, officials said. The authorities claimed that the rhino died due to infighting and denied any poaching attempt on…
Guwahati, Oct 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Eighteen captive-bred pygmy hogs were released in the sprawling Manas National Park of Assam on Saturday by the Pygmy Hog Conservation Programme (PHCP). This is for the fourth time pygmy hogs…
Guwahati, Sep 30 (SocialNews.XYZ): Home guards, who are engaged in securing Assam’s Manas National Park and Tiger Reserve, have launched a protest seeking enhancement of their salaries. At least 120 home guards protested in the…
Guwahati, Sep 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) A Forest Department was killed and three others injured in a confrontation with wild elephants in Assam’s Jorhat district, officials said on Friday. The deceased officer Atul Kalita worked for the…
Pilibhit, Sep 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) A 55-year-old farmer was mauled to death by an adult male tiger when he had entered the core forest area of Pilibhit Tiger Reserve (PTR) along with two others to collect…
Guwahati, Sep 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Manas National Park and Tiger Reserve in Assam’s Baksa district will reopen to visitors on October 1, as per an official notification on Wednesday. Due to the rainy season, the…
Hyderabad, Sep 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) A baby crocodile surfaced from an open drain in Hyderabad during rains that lashed the city on Wednesday evening. The reptile came out of the drain in Chintal Basti in Khairatabad,…
Bengaluru, Sep 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) Karnataka Forest Department and retired Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests M.N. Jayakumar will jointly organise an exhibition titled “Encounters in the Wild 2.0” to commemorate 50 years of Project Tiger….
Guwahati, Sep 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) At least 74 endangered turtles were rescued by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and Criminal Investigation Department in Assam’s Lumding railway station, officials said on Tuesday. According to officials, the turtles…
Chennai, Sept 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) In an effort to monitor the movement of poachers, the Tamil Nadu Forest Department has installed 50 camera traps in the Mukurthi, Nilakottai and Thepekkadu forest ranges that come under the…
Bhopal, Sep 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) A man died after being bitten by a cobra on a bike in a village in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore district, said officials on Sunday. A video of the incident went viral…
Lucknow, Sep 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) About 140 exotic animals rescued recently from a house in Gomti Nagar in Lucknow, have been put in the Lucknow Zoo after their registration with CITES. The Convention on International Trade…