![]() | Four-month-old abandoned elephant calf finds shelter in BannerghattaBBP will soon welcome Hamadryas Baboons from Singapore Zoo. The first batch- two males and a female- will arrive from Mysuru Zoo and the second will come directly from Singapore zoo. |
![]() | Tigers not roaring with virility, Bannerghatta zoo near Bengaluru sees mating crisisThe zoo authority officials have a unique problem on hand, forcing them to consider exchanging tigers with other zoos of Karnataka and also bringing in some rescued ones. |
![]() | Wanted: New lion bloodline for zoo, safari in Bannerghatta ParkThis is because of demand from visitors to see more lions on safaris and in zoos. |
![]() | Nature trippin’ while camping around BengaluruMore and more Bengalureans are taking to nature camps to break away from back to work and school life. |
![]() | With Bannerghatta assessment complete, tiger census ends in most Karnataka forestsThe census exercise now remains to be held in Kali Tiger Reserve, and as per permission from the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), it will be done in March. |
![]() | Bannerghatta National Park may have three tigers“The first reported sighting of a wild tiger here was in 2015. Since then, it has been a wandering male. But now in the camera traps, two more tigers have been sighted. |
![]() | Bannerghatta makes space for leopardsA long-pending plan, and the first of its kind leopard safari, will soon come up on 50 acres at the Bannerghatta Biological Park. |
![]() | Safari at Bannerghatta will cost you moreAfter a gap of two years, the Bannerghatta Biological Park (BBP) management hiked safari rates, but did not change park entry rates. |
![]() | Zoos, rescue centres are like jails, not ideal for wild animals: ExpertsVeterinarians point that as per protocol animals whose canines or claws are broken, severely injured, unable to hunt etc are captured and housed in rescue centres. |
![]() | Bannerghatta National Park faces threat of being swallowed by urban jungleApart from concrete structures, relentless quarrying along the edges of the reserve to feed the city’s demand is also posing a threat. |
![]() | CRPF men deaths in Bannerghatta bring to the fore human encroachment of animal habitatThe government’s utter failure in protecting the single contiguous elephant landscape in the south and south-western parts of the state has resulted in yet another tragic incident of man-elephant conf |
