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The Russell’s viper rescued by Saurav Borkataki on 2 August 2024 from the Bihaguri area of Sonitpur district. Image by Saurav Borkataki.

Misinformation about Russell’s viper stokes incidents of snake killing in Assam

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 28 Aug 2024

Proposed luxury hotels in and around Kaziranga threaten wildlife conservation, livelihood

Nabarun Guha 31 Jul 2024

Otters face heat from smugglers in northeast India

Nabarun Guha 2 Jul 2024

The hispid hare’s habitat in Himalayan grasslands is shrinking fast

Sneha Mahale 21 Jun 2024

Assam has more renewable potential than the government estimates, says study

Barasha Das 14 Jun 2024

Clouded leopard and leopard cat occupy same habitat but differently, shows study

Shuchita Jha 11 Jun 2024

Transforming Assam’s brick industry from red to green

Barasha Das 31 May 2024
Migratory beekeepers from Bihar, at Barpeta in Assam.

Migratory beekeepers sweeten Assam’s honey production

Barasha Das 6 May 2024

Majuli’s shrinking wetlands and their fight for survival

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 15 Apr 2024

More than 15 years on, implementation of Forest Right Act is lagging, new report finds

Simrin Sirur 4 Apr 2024

Walls come down to make way for elephants

Nabarun Guha 3 Apr 2024

Saving India’s wild ‘unicorns’ 

Arathi Menon 26 Mar 2024

Two new mammal species identified in Kaziranga

Nabarun Guha 14 Feb 2024

Three years after an oil well blowout, this Assam wetland is slowly coping

Bondita Baruah 28 Dec 2023
Oriental pied hornbill perched on a branch.

How the loss of a natural dye-producing plant initiated the idea of a village sanctuary

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 6 Dec 2023
Western Hoolock gibbons. Photo by Udayan Borthakur/Aaranyak.

Saving India’s only ape, the hoolock gibbon

Ashvita Anand 21 Nov 2023

Assam’s Dehing Patkai plans extensive camera-trap study of five small wild cats in the region

Nabarun Guha 8 Nov 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

Assam study shows bats are crucial for natural pest control in paddy fields

Sneha Mahale 10 Oct 2023
Image shows a tiger in a forest

Tiger poaching network, that spread from west to east India, busted

Nabarun Guha 11 Sep 2023