Chennai, May 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) Forest department officials on Saturday caught a leopard that created panic among the people of the Papanasam area in Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli district. The leopard’s movements were caught on CCTV cameras…
Agra, May 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Rescued from the grips of a harrowing existence spent begging on the unforgiving streets, Phoolkali – a resilient female elephant – found freedom in 2012. The conservation NGO Wildlife SOS swooped…
Chennai, May 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Tamil Nadu Forest Department and the Special Investigation Team of the state police are conducting a joint probe to find out the source of two elephant tusks (weighing 3.2 kg and…
Chennai, May 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Tamil Nadu Forest Department will soon conduct a survey of forest land damaged due to forest fires this year. Senior officials of the department told IANS that the details regarding…
Chennai, May 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) The three-day annual synchronised elephant census in four south Indian states will now commence from May 23, it was announced on Wednesday. The elephant census for 2024 was to commence on…
Srinagar, May 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) Six people were injured on Wednesday in a leopard attack in J&K’s Budgam district after which the animal was killed. Officials said that the leopard attacked people in the Nasrullahpora area…
Hyderabad, May 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Nehru Zoological Park here has lost a nine-year-old white Bengal tiger due to nephritis, Zoo officials said on Tuesday. Male tiger ‘Abhimanyu’ had been suffering from nephritis with the first…
Hyderabad, May 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a horrific incident, a five-month-old baby boy was mauled to death by a dog in Telangana’s Vikarabad district on Tuesday. The incident occurred in Tandur town when the dog entered…
Chennai, May 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) The AIADMK has opposed the Stalin government’s draft report on building new elephant corridors in Tamil Nadu by displacing people from the proposed areas. “The proposed elephant corridor draft was released…
Vienna, (IANS/DPA) Wildlife trafficking has not substantially reduced over the past two decades, despite positive signs in reducing trafficking of iconic species like elephant and rhino, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported…
New Delhi, May 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Delhi High Court has issued a stern directive against the felling of trees and removal of vegetation in the Central Ridge area of the national Capital, without explicit court…
Chennai, May 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) A woman was trampled to death by a wild elephant at Gudalur in Tamil Nadu on Saturday evening. The deceased has been identified as Nagammal (72). The woman, according to the…
Guwahati, May 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) A suspected rhino poacher has been shot dead by forest guards in Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve, officials said on Saturday. Sonali Ghosh, Director of Kaziranga National Park told reporters:…
Kochi, May 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) A joint initiative between India and Oman to boost research and conservation of sharks and rays in the Arabian Sea will be launched at an upcoming workshop at ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries…
Pilibhit, May 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) A three-year-old leopardess was killed by village locals with sticks and sharp-edged agriculture tools after it attacked them while they were working in their agricultural fields, a forest official said. Three…
Chennai, May 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) In the wake of a Rottweiler dog attacking a five-year-old girl in Chennai, the Tamil Nadu Animal Husbandry Department on Thursday banned any import, breeding, or sale of 33 breeds of…
Palakkad (Kerala), May 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a tragic incident on Wednesday morning, a video journalist while filming a pack of wild elephants crossing a water body was attacked and despite being taken to the hospital,…
Chennai, May 7(SocialNews.XYZ) A female elephant was found dead in the Coimbatore Forest range in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday. The carcass of the elephant was found near Mangarai stream, just 150 metres away from human…
Palakkad (Kerala), May 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Kerala Forest Department has registered a case against a loco pilot controlling the Chennai-bound Trivandrum Mail for knocking down a wild elephant, which later died due to the impact…
Chennai, May 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) A male elephant was found dead in a dry lake near the Noganur Reserve Forest in Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu on Monday. The Krishnagiri district wildlife warden in a statement…