New Delhi, Aug 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) Customs officials at the Bengaluru airport on Tuesday rescued 234 wild animals, including pythons, chameleons, iguanas, turtles, alligators, and a baby kangaroo, and arrested a man in this connection. According…
Kolkata, Aug 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) The West Bengal forest department has outlined an ambitious strategy for increasing the roaming space for wild animals, especially rhinos, at the Jaldapara National Park in Alipurduar district. Forest department sources…
Chennai, Aug 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) Tamil Nadu forest department on Tuesday said that the rogue elephant, ‘Arikomban’, that was captured from Cumbum town and relocated to Tirunelveli forest, is healthy. The forest department in a statement…
Kolkata, Aug 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) The body of a male rhino was recovered in the Gorumara National Park in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district and preliminary probe has revealed that it was a result of a fight…
Chennai, Aug 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Tamil Nadu Forest Department has decided to take stringent action against poaching of wild animals and selling their meat after the state witnessed a recent spike in such sales. Department…
Vijayanagara (Karnataka), Aug 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) A bike-rider was seriously injured after a leopard attacked him in Hadagali taluk of Karnataka’s Vijayanagara district on Monday. The incident took place when the youth,identified as Praveen, was travelling…
New Delhi, Aug 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) A man was arrested by the Pune Customs Department for allegedly smuggling leopard skin. A senior customs official said that the accused was held based on specific intelligence. “We got…
Lucknow, Aug 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) For the first time in India, a ‘Dots Pole Syringe’ has been launched to administer injections to captive or trapped animals from a safe distance and with better accuracy. A patent…
Silchar (Assam), Aug 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Assam Police have rescued six Black Palm Cockatoos from Dholaikhal village — along the India-Bangladesh border — in the state’s Cachar district, forest officials said. The Australian parrots were later…
Los Angeles, Aug 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Cher, who is often regarded as the ‘Goddess of Pop’ due to her pioneering many notable changes in the pop scene is also an avid animal lover, and is focusing…
Canberra, Aug 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) Australia’s Werribee Open Range Zoo announced on Friday that three 10-week-old African lion cubs got names after over 360,000 participants cast their votes in an online naming competition. According to the…
Hassan, (Karnataka) Aug 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) A 37-year-old woman was killed by a wild elephant on Friday while she was at her farm in Karnataka’s Hassan district. The deceased is identified as Kavitha, who came to…
Guwahati, Aug 17 (SocialNews.XYZ): Assam Police’s Special Task Force (STF) and Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) arrested a mother-son duo suspected of trafficking wildlife animals from Assam and Meghalaya, officials said on Thursday. The mother,…
Chennai, Aug 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Two tiger cubs were found dead in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) in Tamil Nadu, Forest Department officials said on Thursday. The bodies of the cubs found on Wednesday were sent for…
Tirupati, Aug 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) has defended its decision to provide a wooden stick to every devotee trekking to the Tirumala temple in view of the recent attacks by leopards. TTD chairman…
Tirupati, Aug 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Another leopard was on Thursday trapped in a cage set up by the Andhra Pradesh forest department on the Alipiri trekking route to the Tirumala temple. The leopard was caught near…
Chennai, Aug 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Tamil Nadu Forest Department is preparing for the upcoming elephant migration season that commences from October and continues till March. The Dharmpauri forest division, which has 1.64 lakh hectares of…
Pilibhit (UP) Aug 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Ram Murti Lal, 50, a farmer of Raniganj village under the Madhotanda police station in Pilibhit Tiger Reserve (PTR) was mauled to death by a tiger, officials said. The partially…
Gir, Aug 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Gir Somnath district, Gujarat, has recorded a surge in wildlife attacks on humans, and the latest man-animal conflict was reported when a two-year-old boy lost his life in a leopard attack….
Chennai, Aug 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) A Tamil Nadu-based NGO, working closely for vulture conservation, is promoting the conservation of the big bird using art by roping in renowned artist Sivakumar, who has to his credit drawn more…