I turn the riflescope down to the lowest power, adjust the bipod, and try to settle into a stable shooting position on the steep rock face. “He’s heading right for us,” says my 21-year-old guide Ben ...

It’s an irresistible magnet that lures tourists in droves to Munnar, Kerala’s famed tourist destination. It’s also the hill-resort’s mascot, emblem and pride — the highly endangered and iconic Nilgiri ...

A hunter in New Zealand proves just how remarkably the Himalayan tahr can blend into their environment in a video filmed while out on a shoot. At first, the opening moments of Brett Langford's short ...

Himalayan tahr numbers reach 35,000 despite controversial culling aimed at limiting them to 10,000 A non-native goat-like animal is destroying New Zealand’s fragile alpine regions, and government ...

The land is young and new in New Zealand, risen from the sea. Before the islands were discovered by the Maoris, before the English, before the Scots, before the gold rush, before the sheep and the ...

A group of recreational hunters are a threatening a High Court injunction to thwart the Department of Conservation's proposed mass Himalayan tahr cull. The New Zealand Tahr Foundation, a consortium of ...

A Game Animal Council funded study has established it is possible to contain male tahr on private land providing additional hunting opportunities and potentially reducing conflict between guided and ...

COIMBATORE: Chief minister M K Stalin on Wednesday laid the foundation stone for a Nilgiri tahr conservation centre near ...

The population of the endangered Nilgiri tahr has improved in Mukurthi national park, a recent survey found. About 343 Niligiri tahr were found in the Mukurthi national park near Mudumsalai sanctuary.

In a five-cent land at the Coimbatore Central Prison compound right next to the Semmozhi Poonga, a Nilgiris Tahr Interpretation Centre is to come up. Last year, for the first time, an enumeration of ...

I turn the riflescope down to the lowest power, adjust the bipod, and try to settle into a stable shooting position on the steep rock face. “He’s heading right for us,” says my 21-year-old guide Ben ...