EnvironmentA tigress brought from Bihar that had left Buxa for the Raimona forest in Assam was darted in a three-hour operation and returned to a Buxa Tiger Reserve enclosure on Tuesday night.
EnvironmentThe three-year-old tigress flown from Bihar's Valmiki Tiger Reserve to Buxa in north Bengal about 20 days ago has covered some 390 square kilometres in three weeks and is heading for Assam's Raimona Tiger Reserve, the Assam forest department says.
EnvironmentPugmarks stretching about half a kilometre were found on a char of the Bhola river at Sonatala village in Sharankhola, Bagerhat, on Monday morning; the Forest Department says the tiger swam over from the Sundarbans and went back, but has told villagers to stay alert.
EnvironmentIn a signed commentary, Wildlife Trust of India chief ecologist Samir Kumar Sinha argues that the move of tigress T138 from Bihar's Valmiki reserve to Buxa in West Bengal shows how a restored reserve can restock another, if prey, corridors and local communities are looked after.
EnvironmentThe Living Planet Report 2026 finds a 73% average fall in monitored vertebrate populations from 1970 to 2022, steepest in freshwater, while India's tigers, rhinos, Asiatic lions and river dolphins show gains; experts warn species outside protected areas are being left behind.
EnvironmentIn West Bengal's first tiger reintroduction, a three-year-old tigress flown from Valmiki in Bihar was given an open path to the Buxa forest within two days; expert Qamar Qureshi says better prey density and security made a hard release possible.
EnvironmentThe radio collar fitted to a three-year-old tigress caught in Bihar for release in West Bengal's Buxa Tiger Reserve came off within minutes, and she had to be sedated twice in two days.
EnvironmentA tigress from Bihar's Valmiki Tiger Reserve will be fitted with a satellite radio collar and moved via Gorakhpur and Hasimara to the Buxa forest, for release on 2 October.
Bangladesh and India agreed that their next joint meeting on Sundarbans biodiversity and Royal Bengal tiger conservation will be held in Bangladesh.
Though the Sundarbans tiger count has risen to 125, climate change, salinity and habitat loss threaten the Royal Bengal tiger unless conservation is stepped up.
A Royal Bengal tigress badly injured in a poachers' snare has been released back into the Sundarbans after about six months of treatment in Khulna.
EnvironmentA video of a wild animal in Jagdal union of Magura Sadar spread fear of a tiger in June 2026; the district forest department identified it from the footage as an endangered fishing cat.
The National Zoo in Mirpur has placed orders for a leopard, wildebeest and waterbirds, due before Eid-ul-Azha, while it prepares for large Eid-ul-Fitr crowds.
