Maharashtra Forest Minister Ganesh Naik announced the state's approval to reclassify leopards under Schedule II of the Wildlife Protection Act. This change, pending central approval, allows killing ...

Mumbai: Amid rising man-animal conflicts, state forest minister Ganesh Naik told the assembly on Thursday that the cabinet has approved a proposal to move leopards in the state from Schedule 1 to ...

Considering the recent incidents of frequent leopard sightings in the Belapur and Kharghar Hill areas, which has been ...

Mumbai: The Maharashtra Forest department has begun releasing leopards rescued from recent human–wildlife conflict situations ...

Mumbai: The Maharashtra Forest Department signed an agreement with the wildlife facility Vantara for the relocation of 50 ...

A post on X by state forest minister Ganesh Naik saying some captured leopards will be shifted to the Vantara wildlife centre ...

A leopard that was earlier captured from a residential Bhayandar society in Mumbai, fitted with a radio-collar and later released into the wild, has been found dead, officials said on Thursday. The ...

Forest officials are investigating the death of a radio-collared leopard in Sanjay Gandhi National Park after post-mortem ...

The move aims to prevent any untoward incidents, as thousands of devotees are expected to gather in the city for the ...

MUMBAI: Residents of an 84-flat housing society in Goregaon East were left alarmed after a leopard was spotted perched on their compound wall in the early hours of Friday. Leopard on compound wall ...

According to sources, the arrangement was finalised after discussions between Naik and the Vantara management.

A viral video showing a leopard hunting a stray dog outside a residential society in Mulund in north east Mumbai triggered concern among residents, following which forest department teams and wildlife ...