Tigress

Sherni director Amit Masurkar deconstructs the Vidya Balan film: 'We are used to seeing the jungle with a colonial lens'

"The forest is often shown as a dark, dangerous, and mysterious place. It was our conscious effort to look at the jungle with a native eye — as Mother Nature — accepting, open, warm, nurturing," says Amit Masurkar, director of Vidya Balan-starrer Sherni.

Tigress beaten to death in Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit for attacking villagers; 43 people booked

According to Principal Conservator of Forests, Sunil Pandey the tigress had on Wednesday attacked and injured nine villagers while they were working in an agriculture field in Deurea range of the Pilibhit tiger reserve.

Tigress, two cubs found dead near Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve; farmer confesses to poisoning big cats, taken to custody

A tigress and her two cubs were found dead in Maharashtra's Chandrapur district Monday morning with forest officials suspecting the big cats could have succumbed to poisoning

Tigress Avni's cubs spotted: Forest conservator says focus on rehabilitation in wild; learn from neighbouring states, say experts

Avni's 10-month-old cubs, a male and a female, were spotted this morning

Avni's killing violates wildlife laws: Autopsy report punctures self-defence theory, fate of her cubs uncertain

According to Avni's autopsy report, the dart allegedly fired to tranquilise the trigress appeared to have been planted on her thigh after she was shot dead in Maharashtra.

Angry villagers kill tigress in Uttar Pradesh's Dudhwa for attacking man; FIR lodged against 12

The tigress was allegedly killed by a mob of angry villagers Sunday evening after it attacked Devanand (50) of Chaltua village, located in the Kishanpur sanctuary area of the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve.

Devendra Fadnavis says Avni's killing will be probed; Rahul invokes Mahatma Gandhi, says 'can judge nation by how it treats animals'

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday expressed his sadness over the decision to kill tigress Avni, stating that they will probe to see if there were any lapses in the procedure followed. His comments come after Union minister Maneka Gandhi attacked the BJP-led Maharashtra government for the “ghastly murder” of Avni, saying a shooter who was sent behind bars for illegally supplying arms to terrorists was sent to kill the animal.

Tigress Avni killed illegally, incident should be treated as wildlife crime, says PETA; seeks investigation

Animal rights body PETA India said the killing of tigress Avni as part of an operation in Maharashtra should be investigated and treated as a wildlife crime and termed it a "dark day" for the nation.

Tigress Avni killed: Farce of a hunt ends as 'man-eater' finally put down, but question of her cubs looms large

Conservation cannot be romanticised for the sake of one animal, but shooting dead a new mother whose cubs are yet to be weaned off cannot be the answer

'Man-eater' tigress Avni killed in Yavatmal after 3-month chase that included drones, hand-gliders, sniffer dogs, elephants

Tigress Avni (T1) believed to be responsible for the deaths of 13 people over the last two years, was killed in Maharashtra's Yavatmal on Friday, after a three-month long change that involved 150 forest department officials, drones, elephants, sniffer dogs and expert shooters