Sloth Bear

Meet Suraj Bai Meena, who fought several odds and a deep bias against women to become Ranthambore National Park’s first woman naturalist.

Over the years, the population of sloth bears in the wild has been threatened due to loss of habitat and poaching, making them a vulnerable species, protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. Recently, a 10-week-old bear cub was rescued after its mother was electrocuted by high tension wires in Madhya Pradesh.