Tristan da Cunha, a volcanic island group in the South Atlantic, is home to 250 people in a settlement called Edinburgh of the Seven Seas. Surrounded by rugged terrain and unique wildlife like northern rockhopper penguins, it offers a glimpse into Earth's geological and ecological history. Its isolation is so profound that reaching it involves a six-day boat journey f...
A man who tried to breed enormous hybrid sheep using genetic material from endangered animals so he could sell them to trophy hunting ranches has been sentenced to six months in prison, the US Department of Justice said Monday.
In a daring rescue operation, a team from Wildlife SOS successfully rescued a 10-foot-long Indian rock python from Astha City, a residential society in Agra.
The Wildlife SOS Rapid Response unit has rescued and treated a one-year-old male monkey from the Prime Minister's House at Lok Kalyan Marg in Delhi, a statement said on Wednesday.
A man in South Delhi's Chittaranjan Park was in for a shock after he discovered a six-foot-long Indian python inside his car.
A 7-foot crocodile was rescued by a team of the Wildlife SOS and the Uttar Pradesh forest department from a village in Hathras district, an office-bearer of the wildlife body said Friday evening.
The elephant, lovingly known as 'Moti,' was found collapsed in Uttarakhand due to weakness and injuries.
Mr Kaswan also shared the link to the study by the Wildlife SOS and Jammu & Kashmir Wildlife Department.
The Wildlife SOS Rapid Response Unit have rescued a five-foot-long black-headed royal snake from a grocery store (Kendriya Bhandar) at Delhi Secretariat Building, an official statement said on Friday.
The wildlife has grown so accustomed to the presence of vehicles in many popular safari locations, particularly in Africa, that it usually ignores them, allowing tourists to view the magnificence of these animals up close.
A giant Indian cobra has been recorded slowly eating a five-foot Russells viper in Kalali, Vadodara.
Chief Wildlife Warden Parag Madhukar Dhakate gave his consent on Monday to tranquillise and cage a tiger which has killed two persons and injured one in Corbett Tiger Reserve so far.
India's biodiversity is mighty and a glimpse of it can be seen in jungle safaris. So, if you're an animal lover, read on and find out the best wildlife safaris in India to try.
The more you bird, the more you see, and the ‘birdier’ it looks! Taking a snapshot with a camera helps capture a memory or a bird in a pretty photograph; to remember what it looks like, where it was found and what it was doing when it was found. So how do birders learn and memorise bird sounds? Well, the more you listen, the more you learn, and the louder it sound...
Three 45-day-old leopard cubs were found in a sugarcane field in a village in Maharashtra's Pune district on Thursday.
Binoculars, often referred to as binocs/ bins/ nocs are the birders best ally in the field helping them spot, identify, and fully appreciate the beauty of the birds. Like a superior tool enhances the craft of an artisan, so does a good pair of binocs enhance the ability and overall experience of the birder.
A crocodile was rescued from inside a toilet of a house in Firozabad's Mohabbatpur village in Uttar Pradesh by a non-government organisation, Wildlife SOS on Friday.
A five-foot-long Indian rock python was rescued from near a bus stop in Delhi's Saket, non-profit Wildlife SOS said Tuesday.
A critically injured Greater Flamingo was treated and released into the wild safely at the end of a joint operation led by the Delhi Zoo and Wildlife SOS on May 18.
The country's first memorial for elephants, which died in harness or as victims of human brutalities, was opened on the Agra-Mathura highway on Friday at a facility developed by WildLife SOS, an NGO.
An elephant that was kept in captivity for nearly 50 years before he was rescued recently celebrated five years of freedom.
Farmers of Vadgaon Anand village in Pune Monday came across a leopard cub while harvesting their crops. They immediately alerted the Forest Department and the Wildlife SOS team.
India's only elephant rescue centre, run by an NGO in Mathura, has been served a notice by the Central Zoo Authority questioning its legality.
A nearly four-feet-long crocodile was rescued by the Wildlife SOS and the Uttar Pradesh forest department officials and successfully relocated, officials said on Friday.
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Born wild is the first long running series on wildlife and conservation on a news channel.
Swati Thiyagarajan has won two Ramnath Goenka Awards for excellence in environment journalism, the Carl Zeiss award for contributing toward tiger conservation amongst others.
Apart from the awards, she was also invited to be a jury member at WildScreen Festival in England, the largest wildlife festival in the world. Her film The Animal Communicator has over 5 million hits on YouTube and she has just completed a book on her television series.
The book is titled Born Wild and is being published in June 2017 by Bloomsbury India.
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