Effective measures taken against hunting and poaching have borne fruits in the rehabilitation of cheer pheasant by bringing the rare bird back to the wilderness from the state of being extinct locally ...

The rare bird species has been spotted for the first time at a height of 583m, the lowest ever, at Nandaur Wildlife Sanctuary in Kumaon Dehradun: Cheer Pheasant, a bird endemic to the mid-Himalayas, ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The gamebird clade – properly called ...

BENI, MYAGDI: Cheer pheasant, an endangered species of bird in the world, is likely to vanish for lack of environment conducive and proper habitat in Myagdi. Keshav Chokhal, an MSc student from ...

In a positive development for the ongoing Cheer Pheasant Conservation Breeding programme in Himachal Pradesh, a captive-bred bird which was released into the wild last year has survived for more than ...

The population of the rare Cheer Pheasant (Catreus wallichii) has increased in the Kaligandaki River basin areas of Myagdi and Mustang, according to a recent study by the Nepalese Ornithological Union ...

Amid dwindling population, the forest department released a pair Cheer Pheasants, categorised as vulnerable under The International Union for Conservation of Nature, into the wild in Shilli Mehla, a ...

Having achieved a high success rate under the cheer pheasant breeding and conservation project at Chail in Solan, the Forest department is making final preparations for the release of the highly ...

Increasing anthropogenic pressures have led to severe environmental degradation and decline of several species. While protected areas offer refuge, a significant population of threatened species is ...

Even as the forest department wildlife wing has started captive breeding of cheer pheasant to increase its population, indiscriminate development and a new rationalisation policy might fail its ...

Sixty-six-year-old Layakram recalls how local people would hunt chaidhs (local name of cheer pheasants) in the forests near their village Seri in Darbhog gram panchayat, for years. Then, in 1992, a ...