Colonisation of the forests devastated them and their inhabitants, the forest dwellers and wildlife. To rein in the recalcitrant state…
Following Gauhati High Court’s order, Numaligarh Refinery Ltd has started demolishing its boundary wall that had been obstructing a critical…
The number of Hindi language films that feature environment, wildlife or climate change in their messaging, is seeing an upward…
In landscapes heavily altered by human activity in Maharashtra, a study suggests that the Indian wolf may be adapting by…
The world’s worst nuclear power plant accidents to date, at Chornobyl, Ukraine, in 1986, and Fukushima, Japan in 2011, and…
The Zoological Survey of India is testing new technology to assess biodiversity using environmental DNA (eDNA). eDNA technology can aid…
Essential, but often unacknowledged, field work in wildlife and conservation biology in India has long been made possible by the…
Breaking new ground along with gender barriers, India has seen many pioneering women biologists who stepped out to explore and…
Stanzin Chamba, a 35-year-old resident of Leh, has been exploring Nubra Valley in Ladakh for the last five years to…
Since the launch of India’s ambitious cheetah reintroduction programme in 2022, six of the 20 adult cheetahs brought to India…
India is now home to at least 3,682 tigers – a new record that surpasses earlier estimates, according to the…
In 2017, a camera installed on the fringes of Corbett Tiger Reserve in northern India photographed an unsuspecting woman. The…
The commercial value of products coming from rarer wildlife species has increased because of their growing demand among the middle…
Fifty years after the launch of Project Tiger in India, the country hosts 75% of the world’s wild tigers, with…
India’s northeastern states are building new homes for seized exotic animals and rescued native wildlife. The states have been coping…
In India’s forests, grasslands and shrublands, one may, with some luck, come across tigers, leopards, elephants, various deer species and…
In November 2019, three African grey parrot chicks (Psittacus erithacus) were seized at Oslo airport by customs inspectors. As endangered…
Culture has always shaped human societies’ relationships with wild animals. The way a species is perceived by the communities it…
What Is CITES? CITES (or the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora in full)…
Four oil and gas pipelines being laid through protected forests in Assam could be “disastrous” for wildlife, environmentalists have told…
Reflected in key goals and targets, ecological connectivity will be decisive, as countries move to implement the freshly minted Kunming-Montreal…
A global wildlife summit has concluded with a suite of new protections for South Asian (SA) species, with decisions made…
Wildlife populations, including birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles and fish, have seen an average 69% decline since 1970, according to the…
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and Harvard University researchers have developed a machine learning algorithm named CombSGPO' (Combined Security Game…
On the night of 15 December 2021, Suken Gayari got the shock of his life. The elderly resident of Daurebari…
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