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

Shuchita Jha 11 Jun 2024

With more than 700 snow leopards, next step in conservation is long term monitoring, say experts

Simrin Sirur 16 Feb 2024
A lion in Gir National Park.

A new web tool offers ways to trace where illegal lion parts come from

Malavika Vyawahare 15 Jan 2024
A male cheetah introduced in Kuno National Park. Photo from Cheetah Conservation Fund.

Cheetahs introduced in Kuno National Park struggle with humidity and weather conditions

Shuchita Jha 24 Aug 2023
Tiger T101 with the leopard kill in Ranthambore National Park, Rajasthan. Photo by Harsha Narasimhamurthy

How animals negotiate shared resources in the wild

Arathi Menon 23 Aug 2023
A leopard cat seen by the Kinabatangan River in Myanmar. The unmanned border areas along the Myanmar border and thick forest cover along the river Tiau, which divides Mizoram and Myanmar, have likely contributed to ease of access, trade, and a general increase in poaching in this part of India. Photo by Mike Prince/Wikimedia Commons.

The silent trade of elusive small cats in Mizoram

Nabarun Guha 3 Aug 2023

India’s tiger reserves have helped fight climate change

Neha Jain 20 Jul 2023
A female cheetah from Namibia. As part of Project Cheetah, aimed at reintroducing cheetahs in India, 20 cheetahs were brought from Namibia and South Africa. Image- CCF

Questions arise about Project Cheetah as three cheetahs die in 45 days

Manish Chandra Mishra 17 May 2023
A snow leopard.

Climate change and catfight in the Himalayas: tigers, leopards venture into snow leopard land

Abhaya Raj Joshi 13 Mar 2023
A snow leopard captured by a camera trap in the Western Himalaya. Photo by Rishi Kumar Sharma/NCF/HPFD

[Commentary] Estimating population of world’s snow leopards

Rishi K. Sharma 11 Mar 2021
Camera trap image of snow leopard in HP upper reaches. Camera trap images from surveys by NCF and HP forest department.

Scientific survey maps 73 snow leopards in Himachal Pradesh

Vivek Gupta 10 Feb 2021

Human presence disturbs prey activity, shows study comparing Kaziranga and Manas

Roopak Goswami 6 Jul 2020

Your Environment This Week: Yak exchange, flowers climbing up Himalayas, noise pollution fines

Team Mongabay 3 Jul 2020

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

Hemant Singh 5 Jun 2020

Coexisting with an increasing number of Asiatic lions

Ananya Revanna 22 May 2020

Leopards in a spot in Rajasthan

Sneha Mahale 8 Apr 2020

How the legacy of a colonial hunter has inspired conservation efforts in the forests of south India

K.A. Shaji 17 Jul 2019

Climate change imperils Sundarbans tiger habitats

Sahana Ghosh 26 Mar 2019

Tiger dead: The big cat that walked from MP to Gujarat dies mysteriously

Mayank Aggarwal 1 Mar 2019

Sundarban Reserve Forest now a Wetland of International Importance

Sahana Ghosh 6 Feb 2019