Tag: 1972

New Delhi: With 460 leopard deaths, India in 2018 recorded the highest mortality rate of the particular big cat species across the country in the past four years, Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI) said on Monday. According to official records, a total of 431 leopards died in 2017. These included 159 incidents of poaching. […]

Kendrapara: Forest personnel today rescued a five foot long Indian cobra from a haystack in Purussottampur village, close to Mahakalpada forest block in Odisha’s Kendrapara district. The adult cobra, a protected species under Wild Protection Act, 1972 had strayed into the village. However, it did not harm either the humans or the domesticated animals, a […]