Category: Species in news

Announcement by WAZA (World Association for Zoos and Aquariums) about the success story of India’s lone Conservation Breeding Programme, at Darjeeling zoo making the world’s largest number of Snow Leopards captivity.

Hog deer spotted inside Rajaji Tiger Resrve for the 1st time.

Olive Ridley turtles have washed ashore dead along the southern coast of Chennai over the last few days.

Recently, Eurasian otter was found in the Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary in Kerala.

The United Nations has declared 2024 as the International Year of Camelids.

According to Union government Melanistic tigers have been recorded only in Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) in Odisha.

A nocturnal flying squirrel has resurfaced in Arunachal Pradesh after going missing for 42 years.

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Science’s (IISc) have identified that peptides (short protein) produced from Budgett’s frog can combat enzymes of disease causing pathogens.

Release of updated Red List of threatened species by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

The Koyas have moved on from using traditional Indian Bison horns to palm leaves to craft their ‘Permakore’.

The Egyptian god Thoth was represented by a baboon — which is odd because baboons aren’t native to Egypt. An interdisciplinary team of scientists recently cracked this long-standing mystery.

India has been removed from the CITES’s Review of Significant Trade (RST) for Red Sanders.