In Kanha Tiger Reserve, barasingha conservation started in 1967 even before project Tiger was launched. Photo credit: Kanha Park Management. Kanha’s success story revolving around the barasingha ...

MADHYA PRADESH : Declared the state animal of Madhya Pradesh in 1955, described as integral to the state’s ecology and culture, the Barasingha or the hard ground swamp deer (scientifically speaking) ...

The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), a key wildlife management body, has given its nod for relocating 20 hard-ground barasingha or swamp deer from Kanha tiger reserve to Satpura national ...

Forest authorities in central India have successfully helped establish a new breeding population of the vulnerable hard-ground swamp deer, an animal previously restricted to just one protected area, ...

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): The pride of Madhya Pradesh, Barasinghas that around a half-a- century back had been completely wiped out from Central India due to habitat loss have now regained their strong ...

An Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 1963 batch, founding director of the Kanha National Park and the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) Dehradun, HS Panwar has been chosen to be conferred the ...

Shahjahanpur: A barasingha (swamp deer) was found dead on Bhira-Palia road near Sharda bridge in Lakhimpur Kheri district on Wednesday morning. The incident took place outside the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve ...

Some wildlife experts think of swamp deer, also known as barasingha, as “stupid”. Writing in the 2013-published Mammals of South Asia, researchers, who studied the species in Kanha National Park, ...