Animesh Bose

Nearly 100 teams - each comprising five men - of the forest department will conduct a tiger census in the Buxa Tiger Reserve (BTR) next month.

While foresters in North Bengal claim there are frequent tiger sightings in Jaldapra Wildlife Sanctuary and Buxa Tiger Reserve (BTR) nowadays, the villagers think otherwise.

SILIGURI: Fourteen NGOs of north Bengal have submitted a memorandum to the state forest minister, urging him to stop the transformation of the Garumara National Park bungalow from a beautiful structure to an abandoned dwelling to suit the needs of a new film by Aparna Sen.

If conservationists have their way, the state's much-touted tourism project in Gajoldoba, 25kms from Siliguri, may face a green hurdle.

A forest beat officer, who was to retire in 2019 from service, was gored by a rhino in Jaldapara National Park on Wednesday night.

SILIGURI: About 60 yellow footed green pigeons have committed suicide at Sukna in West Bengal in the last one month triggering an alarm among wildlife officials, nature lovers and NGOs.

Two elephants were killed after being run over by a train on Wednesday night.

An Alipurduar court on Wednesday sentenced a man to three years of rigorous imprisonment for killing a Bengal monitor lizard, which is protected under the Schedule I of Wildlife Act 1972.

An adult tusker was killed in the early hours of Monday after it got mowed down by a train on the New Jalpaiguri-Alipurduar Junction section, which cuts through the Dooars forests.

makna (male elephant without tusk) strayed out of the forest near Siliguri on Friday and trampled a man to death at Ambari, about 15 km from Siliguri.

An elephant calf was killed in the Mahananda wildlife sanctuary after being hit by a Siliguri-bound passenger train from Bamanhat (in Cooch Behar's Dinhata) late on Monday evening.The engine of the train also got derailed after it hit the herd of elephants in the sanctuary .

The forest department will use drones and camera traps to track down Sachin, the leopard that had escaped from an enclosure at Bengal Safari on the outskirts of Siliguri town on Tuesday.West Bengal Zoo Authority member secretary V K Yadav said the leopard had been briefly sighted on a tree near the rhino enclosure in the herbivore safari area on Tuesday night,

A combination of sporadic and irregular rainfall, largescale deforestation and indiscriminate use of groundwater has led to a 3 metre (10 feet) decline in ground water level in the Dooars and Terai region, starting from Mechi along the Indo-Nepal border to Sankosh on the Assam-Bengal

V K Yadav, member secretary of West Bengal Zoo Authority, confirmed the news saying that the cubs and the mother have been kept under strict watch and that all the four were doing fine.

There have been at least 12 sightings of Asiatic black bears in Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling and Kalimpong in just 15 days, leaving the forest department baffled. Officials have no clue where the animals are coming from.

A tiger camera-trapped at the Buxa reserve after nearly three decades has sent foresters and wildlife conservationists into a tizzy. The photograph was clicked and released on Saturday.

Poachers gunned down an adult tusker in north Bengal’s Buxa Tiger Reserve and took away its tusks. The gang also chopped off the elephant’s head. This is the fifth incident of jumbo poaching in the forests of north Bengal in the last two years.

Asiatic wild dog, also known as Indian wild dog or dhole and listed endangered under the IUCN red list, has been sighted for the first time in the Jaldapara National Park in north Bengal recently.

A killer stretch of railway track that cuts across a critical wildlife corridor in North Bengal and sees an average of five elephant deaths every year due to train accidents may soon see an increase in traffic.