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According to the FIR, Priya, a resident of Laluwala village under Bhojpur police station, and her friends filmed the incident and shared the video on a social media platform linked to Rajiv Singh. The video, shot on Sunday and widely circulated, shows the group beating the cat, which later died. They then poured petrol on the animal and set it on fire.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.When a British citizen turns 100, they get a message from the monarch. It’s a tradition dating back to 1917 when King George V started sending telegrams to congratulate citizens on landmark birthdays.But Sir David Attenborough is no ordinary citizen.

Mining in India remains heavily shaped by environmental clearances, social expectations, and regulatory scrutiny. Projects move through multiple layers of approvals—from forest and wildlife permissions to geological assessment, land acquisition, and community consultations. Delays can stretch into years.

Robert Irwin, the 21-year-old son of the late Steve Irwin, has partnered with Australian underwear brand Bonds for a new campaign launching in the US. The photoshoot features Irwin posing in underwear with snakes and lizards, leading to a controversy and online trolling. The campaign aims to promote the brand's expansion into the American market. Irwin, known for continuing his father's wildlife conservation legacy alongside his mother and sister at Australia Zoo, has been in the public eye since childhood. His latest venture into underwear modelling marks a significant departure from his previous work. Bonds, an Australian brand, chose Irwin and Australian rapper Tkay Maidza for their US launch campaign. The images feature Irwin in various poses, often with reptiles. The photoshoot has generated considerable discussion online, with many expressing surprise at Irwin's appearance. Some social media users commented on their conflicted feelings seeing him in this new light, remembering him as a child on television. “I was born in 1989. My elder eyes shan't not look upon this.”

Customs officials seized exotic wildlife, including including king snakes, monitor lizards and turtles, at Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) in Bhubaneshwar on Saturday. The seized wildlife were concealed in chocolate boxes and were being smuggled from Thailand capital, Bangkok. They were being taken to Chennai, Injeet Kumar Mohanty, a Customs official engaged at the airport, told PTI. The luggage of a person from Chennai was searched after officials received a tip-off. Following the search, seizures were made, he said, adding the passenger was detained and was being questioned. As many as nine California king snakes, 10 pig nose turtles and 12 Nile monitor lizards were seized, of which three lizards were dead, he said. The wildlife species have been handed over to the forest department.

video conference call on February 14. The agency cited workforce planning as the reason for the terminations. Employees were informed about the decision during a 20-minute virtual meeting. They later received official emails confirming their dismissal.

Maya’s team—which included another woman, two men and a child— was carrying the skin of an adult tiger and 17 kilos of bones. Before “someone from Meghalaya” could come and collect the consignment from Maya, the police swooped in. “We were stunned to find that these were the remains of a second tiger— we had already missed the first tiger,” says Pranjal Baruah, a range officer of Kamrup, Assam, who had spearheaded the initial probe. Forensic tests traced the skin to one of the three missing tigers from the faraway Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra. That was a clue something was going awry with the striped beast. Even as India’s tiger population has been steadily climbing over the past couple of decades, it could get derailed. A surging appetite for tiger bones in China and Vietnam and the revival of a smuggling route through Mizoram-Myanmar have reignited dormant trafficking networks. The Assam case was transferred to the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), an arm of the ministry of environment and forests, which cracks down on organised wildlife crime. The agency’s trail led to multiple arrests in Maharashtra. They also caught Mishram Jakhad, an octogenarian from Dwarka in Delhi, believed to be a key link between tiger poachers and smuggling syndicates.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The same cast of characters features in most wildlife conservation campaigns: majestic tigers, adorable pandas or other creatures that tug human heartstrings. Images of the blood-splattered bills of endangered vultures tend to evoke less sympathy, but a new study provides a reason to be concerned for their survival.

safari slang for off-roading—helping wildlife enthusiasts spot everything from lions to pangolins. There are fleets of hot air balloons, canoes and pontoon boats, too, all offering different vantages of the continent’s vast biodiversity. But there’s only one solar-powered cable car system meant to get you eye-to-eye with giraffes or hovering above baobab branches. When it opens in May, the six-seat Solfari gondola will be a new claim to fame for the Unesco-designated Vhembe Biosphere Reserve, in South Africa’s little-visited Limpopo province. The amenity will be exclusive to guests of a new luxury lodge there, the six-suite, solar-powered Few & Far Luvhondo, where rates start at $1,800 per person per night. This aerial amenity is the invention of Jacob Dusek, who with wife Sarah Dusek founded the American glamping company Under Canvas. After selling the company to KSL Capital Partners for more than $100 million in 2018, the pair moved to Cape Town and launched a venture capital firm to invest in female-run African companies. By fall 2019 the firm was smoothly up and running, and the pair yearned to return to their nature-tourism roots in their newly adopted homeland.

«The (forest) department has taken up the mapping of wetlands using remote sensing data and the ground truthing and subsequent demarcation of these wetlands exercise, in collaboration with the stakeholder departments revenue and wildlife for wetlands, above 2.25 hectares, as per the directions of the Supreme Court,» the minister said. The exercise is underway at present and scheduled to be completed by March end, he added.

Narendra Modi on Monday announced the Asiatic lion population estimation exercise in May and unveiled conservation plans for tigers, gharials and a critically endangered bird while pushing for using AI to combat forest fires and human-animal conflicts. He made a slew of announcements while chairing the seventh meeting of the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL), in his capacity as ex-officio chairperson, at Sasan in Gujarat's Junagadh district.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Last week I met a baby wallaroo. If you, like me, have above average wildlife trivia, it is possible you are thinking “the what now?".

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Gurugram: On the night of 6 December 2024, when Indigo Airlines flight 6E 1032 touched down in Chennai from Kuala Lumpur, it unloaded an unusual piece of luggage: nearly 5,200 red-eared slider turtles huddled in boxes, each smaller than the size of a palm.

compensatory levies for forest land diversion till date, the government informed Parliament on Thursday. Union Minister of State for Environment Kirti Vardhan Singh told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply that of this amount, Rs 26,002.16 crore has been utilized for afforestation and related activities over the past five financial years (2019-20 to 2023-24).

With the price of eggs soaring, more people are looking into keeping backyard chickens

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Snowfall is a much-awaited occurrence in India, so much so that the first whiff of snow is followed by posts on WhatsApp groups and social media, and hordes rush from the plains to the Himalaya. Shimla, Manali and their environs become a heaving jumble of cars sliding on ice and fashionably but unsuitably dressed influencers making reels, making any trip to see snow a rowdy affair.

wildlife presenter’s serious lesson on elephant biology took an unexpectedly comical turn when a mischievous bull elephant decided to snatch his hat—straight off his head!

Yaan Bifengxia Wildlife Zoo has attracted widespread attention for promoting this unorthodox remedy, which has been met with disbelief and anger from both medical professionals and the public.