In a rural region of Maharashtra, a small Indian civet found itself in a precarious situation. The helpless animal was struggling to escape from a 45-foot-deep well, exhausted by its futile attempts. Fortunately, the Wildlife SOS and the Forest Department were alerted to the situation and rushed to its aid. Upon arriving at the scene, […]
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Leopard Rescued From Small Chawl in Maharashtra, India
A leopard startled residents when he made himself at home inside of a chawl, or a slum settlement, in a Chakan town in the Pune district of Maharashtra. After a two-hour-long operation by the Maharashtra Forest Department and Wildlife SOS, the leopard was rescued from the narrow passage. Residents of a chawl settlement in the […]
India Deploys Guard Dogs To Protect Newly-Introduced Cheetahs From Poachers
In a historic move, authorities in India have deployed a pack of dogs in a national park to protect newly-introduced cheetahs from poachers. According to USA Today, cheetahs used to be widespread in India, but they became extinct in the 1950s due to poaching. Cheetahs were the first and only predator to become extinct in […]
70 yrs after extinction in India, 1st batch of cheetahs set to arrive from Africa in August
Declared extinct 70 years ago, the first batch of five-six Cheetahs will be translocated from South Africa to Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh. This is the first time that a trans-continental shifting of a large carnivore will take place. In a first, a batch of cheetahs will be translocated from South Africa to India […]
In eastern India, an elephant killed a 70-year-old woman before returning to trample her body during her funeral
In eastern India, an elephant killed a 70-year-old woman before returning to trample her body during her funeral. According to authorities, the event occurred on Thursday in the state of Odisha. Maya Murmu was fetching water from a tube well in Raipal village, Mayurbhanj district, when the wild elephant emerged out of nowhere. It had […]
Beware! The Dark Truth Behind Guruvayur Elephant Sanctuary in India
“Fifteen Hundred captives were cooped up in a shed built to accommodate probably 200 at the most. We were cold and hungry and there was not enough room for everyone to squat on the bare ground, let alone to lie down. One five-ounce piece of bread was our only food in four days.” A holocaust […]
New Species of Macaque Identified in India
Macaques are members of Macaca, a geographically widely dispersed and species-rich genus of Old World monkeys in the family Cercopithecidae. These monkeys are native to Asia and Africa and have the widest distribution of any living non-human primate. There are over 20 Macaca species ranging from Morocco and Gibraltar in the west to Japan, Taiwan, […]
Nepal’s key habitat could lose 39% of its tigers in 20 years, study says
KATHMANDU — Roads that run close to an important national park in Nepal’s southern plains could result in an increased rate of roadkill that would cut the park’s population of adult tigers by nearly two-fifths over two decades, a new study shows. The study forecasts that 46 Bengal tigers (Panthera tigris tigris) could be killed […]