Goa Wildlife Sanctuary

Helicopters of the Indian Navy on Wednesday morning conducted sorties over the Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary in Goa to assess the extent of forest fires that are raging for the last five days, the state government said on Wednesday.

A leopard died after getting trapped in a wired snare on the outskirts of the Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary in Sattari taluka of North Goa, a Forest department official said on Friday.

If you want to take a break from the beaches and shacks of South Goa and venture into the forests, then you should definitely pick this wildlife sanctuary in Goa.

The death of a tigress and her three cubs in Goa in the last few days has set alarm bells ringing among the tiger conservation community. The carcass of the first tiger was found on Sunday in Goa's Mahadayi wildlife sanctuary. Three men were on Wednesday by Goa Police after the fourth carcass was found. The centre has also set up a two-member team ...

In the third such incident in the four days since January 5, the carcass of a tiger was found in the Mahadayi Wildlife Sanctuary in Goa on Wednesday, a senior Forest official said.

Forest officials are investigating the death of a Royal Bengal tiger in Goa's Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary. The carcass was found in a village on Sunday, state Chief Wildlife Warden Santosh Kumar said.

A woman today died after she was attacked by a wild bison inside the Mahadeyi Wildlife Sanctuary in Sattari in North Goa district, 80 kilometres from Panaji, a police official said.

A zoo situated inside the Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary had to be locked down for the day after an intruder set free four leopards from their enclosure in the early hours of today, zoo officials said.

Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, while asserting that the state government would provide toilets to all its villages as part of the Open Defecation Free (ODF)scheme, said that villages within wildlife sanctuaries needed to be tackled differently.

Home to 400 of India's 1,100-odd avian species, Goa, in a fresh initiative, is now banking on the birds in the hope it can spur the arrival of high-end tourists in the state.

Goa government plans to start white water rafting in the Mhadei river inside Mhadei wildlife sanctuary, 100 kms north east of Panaji in Sattari taluka.

NDTV has a report that shows that at least three mines have been cleared to illegally jut into wildlife sanctuaries.

Helicopters of the Indian Navy on Wednesday morning conducted sorties over the Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary in Goa to assess the extent of forest fires that are raging for the last five days, the state government said on Wednesday.

A leopard died after getting trapped in a wired snare on the outskirts of the Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary in Sattari taluka of North Goa, a Forest department official said on Friday.

If you want to take a break from the beaches and shacks of South Goa and venture into the forests, then you should definitely pick this wildlife sanctuary in Goa.

The death of a tigress and her three cubs in Goa in the last few days has set alarm bells ringing among the tiger conservation community. The carcass of the first tiger was found on Sunday in Goa's Mahadayi wildlife sanctuary. Three men were on Wednesday by Goa Police after the fourth carcass was found. The centre has also set up a two-member team ...

In the third such incident in the four days since January 5, the carcass of a tiger was found in the Mahadayi Wildlife Sanctuary in Goa on Wednesday, a senior Forest official said.

Forest officials are investigating the death of a Royal Bengal tiger in Goa's Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary. The carcass was found in a village on Sunday, state Chief Wildlife Warden Santosh Kumar said.

A woman today died after she was attacked by a wild bison inside the Mahadeyi Wildlife Sanctuary in Sattari in North Goa district, 80 kilometres from Panaji, a police official said.

A zoo situated inside the Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary had to be locked down for the day after an intruder set free four leopards from their enclosure in the early hours of today, zoo officials said.

Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, while asserting that the state government would provide toilets to all its villages as part of the Open Defecation Free (ODF)scheme, said that villages within wildlife sanctuaries needed to be tackled differently.

Home to 400 of India's 1,100-odd avian species, Goa, in a fresh initiative, is now banking on the birds in the hope it can spur the arrival of high-end tourists in the state.

Goa government plans to start white water rafting in the Mhadei river inside Mhadei wildlife sanctuary, 100 kms north east of Panaji in Sattari taluka.

NDTV has a report that shows that at least three mines have been cleared to illegally jut into wildlife sanctuaries.