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India's Blackbuck Can Run at 80 km/h, But Speed Alone Cannot Save This Antelope Without Open Grassland

The Animal That Runs Like Almost Nothing Else on EarthA blackbuck at full sprint hits 80 km/h. It can hold 65 km/h for long enough to exhaust most predators. Among land animals, only the cheetah, now extinct in India as a wild resident, could reliably run one down. The Indian…

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The Indian Skimmer Is One of India's Most Endangered River Birds, Only the Chambal Can Save It

A bill built for one thing, and one thing onlyThe Indian Skimmer (Rynchops albicollis) has a lower mandible that is measurably longer than its upper one, a trait so rare among birds globally that only three skimmer species in the world share it. It flies low over calm water, lower…

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World Tiger Day: India now home to 75% of global population

India\'s wild tiger population is estimated to now exceed 3,600, according to the latest government data released on International Tiger Day on Saturday.

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7 days prior to exam, WII nixes 63 percent of job applications on ‘absurd reasons’

A week before the written examination for seven group-A vacancies for scientists at premier Wildlife Institute of India in Dehradun, Bharti Arora’s application was rejected by the institute for lack of “supporting documents” for her experience after PhD. Arora, a staffer at the WII for the past 15 months, then…

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South African cheetahs arrive to start new lives in India

Continuing New Delhi's efforts to reestablish the variety of the feline population, a group of 12 cheetahs was brought from South Africa last week and put into quarantine enclosures in the Kuno National Park in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.

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Uttarakhand: White landscapes of Gangotri turning green

DEHRADUN: Over 50,000 different types of bacteria found in the deglaciated area of the Gangotri glacier, 92% of which are "unknown" to mankind, have been turning it from white to green, discovered scientists at the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) in a first-of-its-kind study of the Indian side of the…

The Times of India

India set to be home of cheetahs after 70 years at Madhya Pradesh park

The fastest land animal in the world, declared extinct in the country in 1952, will find a new home in the Kuno-Palpur National Park (KNP) in Sheopur district, said senior forest department official

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Dugong poaching along Tamil Nadu coast a big concern

Researchers from the Dehradun-based Wildlife Institute of India recorded five dugong deaths in the Gulf of Mannar areas in the last 15 days, causing serious concern on the poaching of this highly-endangered marine mammal.

The Times of India

‘Cameras prove tigers exist in Goa forests since 2013’

KERI: On Friday, forest minister Vishwajit Rane had said that tigers found in Goa’s forests were only those in transit. Environmentalists have, however, pointed at clear evidence of tiger presence captured through camera traps for years in Goa’s forests.

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