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Forest team patrolling with the help of captive elephants in Madhya Pradesh. Photo by Satyendra Kumar Tiwari

Spirits are low this mahua season as fear and grief take over these MP villages

Manish Chandra Mishra 26 Apr 2022
A Waghoba worshipper at Film City in Goregaon, Mumbai. Photo by Ramya Nair/Project Waghoba.

Worshipping Waghoba: Faith meets conservation in Maharashtra where humans and leopards share space

Aathira Perinchery 4 Oct 2021
Fishing cats can be found in wetland and mangrove ecosystems. Photo by Srichakra Pranav/Wikimedia Commons.

Hope in sight for the ambassador of Chilika lake, the elusive fishing cat

Sneha Mahale 14 Sep 2021

Tracking Russell’s vipers in rural Karnataka unravels their behaviour

Neha Jain 30 Aug 2021

Bees recorded feeding on sweat and tears of human beings

Roopak Goswami 16 Jul 2021

Longest dispersal of a female tiger recorded in Central India

Neha Jain 12 Jul 2021

Human activity disturbs quiet habitat of black-necked cranes in Arunachal Pradesh

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya, Rini Barman 2 Jun 2021

Odisha plans to satellite-tag pangolins to study them better

Manish Kumar 6 Apr 2021

No honey, no hives, but solitary bees have important lives

Arati Kumar-Rao 8 Mar 2021
A dung beetle finds subsistence in the deserts of Rajasthan. Photo by Peter Davis / Flickr.

[Explainer] The beetles that roll dung and follow the stars

Vatsala Nongmeikpam 1 Mar 2021

Life and struggles of the sloth bear in human-dominated areas

Aathira Perinchery 27 Nov 2020
Termites inside a termite mound. Photo by Nikhil More.

Architectural secrets of termite mounds

Anusha Krishnan 28 Oct 2020
Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) made it to of the “100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species”.

[Commentary] Tilapia: How an invasive fish came to dominate our ecology, food and psyche

Aaron Savio Lobo 15 Oct 2020

Migratory openbill storks find safe haven in Andhra village

Manish Kumar, Sahana Ghosh 6 Oct 2020
Tiger comes onto one of the streets in the CSTPS in January this year. Photo by Rahul Kuchankar

The tigers that live in a thermal power plant

Saurabh Katkurwar 4 Sep 2020

How butterflies strike a relationship with ants using specialised organs

Aathira Perinchery 2 Sep 2020

Elephants in north Bengal more likely to raid crops near fragmented forested patches

Ashvita Anand 18 Aug 2020

Children sketch human-elephant conflict and coexistence in Odisha

Sahana Ghosh 10 Aug 2020

[Commentary] Reared by their father, tiger sisters take forward conservation in Sariska

Hemant Singh 5 Jun 2020

Logging poses a threat to the arboreal Travancore flying squirrel

Visvajit Sriramrajan 12 May 2020