India, Dec. 12 -- Forest officials and wildlife conservationists in Assam's Tinsukia district rescued hundreds of wild animals and birds in 2025, responding to distress calls from tea gardens, villages, highways, and wetland areas.

The operations covered important ecological zones, including Dibru-Saikhowa National Park, Dihing-Patkai National Park, and Maguri-Motapung Beel, where human activities increasingly overlap with wildlife territories.

Rescues this year included rare Bengal slow lorises, various owl species, snakes, leopard cubs, and a stranded elephant calf. These incidents underline Tinsukia's biodiversity richness while highlighting rising pressures on forests and wetlands. "Every rescue reminds us that animals are losing sp...