Arathi Menon

Arathi Menon

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Arathi Menon is a senior staff writer. She is based in Mysore, Karnataka.

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Study finds physical barriers restricting blue sheep gene flow

Arathi Menon 20 Dec 2023

Graze or blaze: Study looks at ways to manage grass dominance in savannahs

Arathi Menon 8 Dec 2023

Pythons return home, slowly but surely, finds a new study

Arathi Menon 6 Dec 2023

No magic bullets to deal with snakebites

Arathi Menon 22 Nov 2023
Bright yellow flowers and thick green canopy make Senna attractive. Photo by P.A. Vinayan

Wayanad’s soured relationship with Senna

Arathi Menon 13 Nov 2023

Study busts myths around king cobra venom

Arathi Menon 9 Nov 2023

Including indigenous perspectives for equitable forest management

Arathi Menon 27 Oct 2023

Leopard cats may not respond well to global warming 

Arathi Menon 24 Oct 2023
A camera-trap image of a clouded leopard in Manas National Park. Clouded leopards are a largely arboreal, shy animals considered the "smallest big cat" in the world. Photo by Urijit Bhatt.

Clouded leopards develop ways to survive competition

Arathi Menon 19 Oct 2023
Elephants in Wayanad. Photos by Anoop N.R.

Wayanad is summer home for elephants, says a study

Arathi Menon 16 Oct 2023
A snow leopard photographed at Himalayan Zoological Park Bulbuley near Gangtok. Photo by Nanda Ramesh/ Wikimedia Commons

Study finds climate change causing snow leopards to scale altitudes

Arathi Menon 12 Oct 2023

Book on endemic birds says three species almost extinct

Arathi Menon 9 Oct 2023
An elephant with a radio collar walks through a coffee estate on May 18, 2023, near Sakleshpur, Hassan district, Karnataka. Photo by Abhishek N. Chinnappa

There is more to radio collaring than cheetah deaths

Arathi Menon 6 Oct 2023

[Book Review] A walk down the Nilgiri hills

Arathi Menon 6 Oct 2023

India needs customised climate projections rather than IPCC reports: study

Arathi Menon 3 Oct 2023

When citizens take ownership of urban commons

Arathi Menon 27 Sep 2023

Bioinvasions are a global threat to ecosystems, says IPBES report

Arathi Menon 21 Sep 2023
Mist clad Poombarai, a village in Kodaikanal. Photo by Arathi Menon/Mongabay

Hill station waste needs better plan, not just plastic ban

Arathi Menon 13 Sep 2023
Apis dorsata. Photo by Rison Thumboor/Wikimedia Commons.

Bees that see at night

Arathi Menon 7 Sep 2023
Pilgrims take blessings from a priest at the Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve in the Western Ghats. Photo by David

Green pilgrimage model balances faith and conservation

Arathi Menon 5 Sep 2023

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