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The brown forest bob (Scobura woolletti) was known in parts of Southeast Asia, and thought to be a rare sight in the Northeast. A 2010 study however revealed that the butterflies recorded in the Northeast was a different species, now named Scobura parawoolletti or Assam forest bob (seen in the photo). Image by Sarangapani Neog.

Sarangapani Neog on documenting butterflies in a sanctuary [Interview]

Barasha Das 12 Sep 2025

A city biodiversity evaluation spotlights the need to conserve urban natural resources

Simrin Sirur 9 Sep 2025
Mithuns in Roing in Lower Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh. Image by Divya Kilikar/Mongabay.

Conflicted over attacks on mithuns, experts gun for hunting ban

Kasturi Das 9 Sep 2025

Tracking India’s elusive grassland nomad

Sneha Mahale 29 Aug 2025
Great Indian Bustards feed on termites in the soil. Image by Late Radheshyam Bishnoi.

The state of the great Indian bustard leaves no room for bad eggs [Commentary]

Sumit Dookia and Mamta Rawat 28 Aug 2025
Representative image by Yathin S Krishnappa via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).

Supreme Court orders investigation into Vantara

Simrin Sirur 27 Aug 2025

Court submission challenges ‘confidential’ report on the Great Nicobar Island plan

Simrin Sirur 27 Aug 2025
A clouded leopard in Cotswold Wildlife Park in the U.K. Representative image by Richard via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Viral clouded leopard video is not from Northeast India, experts confirm

Shailesh Shrivastava 26 Aug 2025
The East Asian free-tailed bat (Tadarida insignia) was recently recorded for the first time in India. Image by Rohit Chakravarty.

New bat species and first records uncovered in the Western Himalayas

Nikhil Sreekandan 22 Aug 2025
The marbled cat, classified as near threatened in the IUCN Red List, receives protection under Schedule I of the Wild Life Protection Act, 1972. It is a small semi-arboreal cat that is similar in size to a large domestic cat, though with a longer, bushy tail. Representative image by James Eaton via Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).

Camera traps confirm marbled cat’s presence in Assam forests

Nabarun Guha 20 Aug 2025
Yellow-browed bulbul specimens collected from the Nilgiri hills in the 1800s at the Natural History Museum at Tring, England. Image by Vijay Ramesh.

Old maps and dead birds reveal the story of grassland and bird decline in the Nilgiris

Kartik Chandramouli 19 Aug 2025

World’s smallest wild cat recorded in West Bengal

Nabarun Guha 19 Aug 2025
A Hanuman langur leaps over tree tops in Nagarahole Tiger Reserve, Karnataka. Image by Nikhil More via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Mewa Singh on chasing monkeys for over half a century [Interview]

Arathi Menon 18 Aug 2025

Tracking seasons through changing tree behaviour [Commentary]

Geetha Ramaswami 15 Aug 2025

Rohini Balakrishnan on why (and how) we must listen to insects [Interview]

Kartik Chandramouli 15 Aug 2025
Varkey George shows a grapefruit tree on his farm in Kottayam. He plans to diversify his fruit farming. Image courtesy of Varkey George.

Farmers swap rubber for exotic fruits, chasing higher profits

Navya P K 8 Aug 2025
A caracal was captured on a trap camera in July at Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary, Madhya Pradesh. Image courtesy: MP Forest Department.

Caracal sighting offers a clue, not a sign of recovery, say conservation biologists

Manish Chandra Mishra 4 Aug 2025
The construction of the Mandal dam began in the 1970s, and was left unfinished. It is now being revived, and met with protests from local communities who are being denied the jobs, land titles and compensation promised. Image by Ashwini Kumar Shukla/Mongabay.

A dam that drowned dreams but never delivered water

Ashwini Kumar Shukla 1 Aug 2025

DNA test cracks the case of mistaken quails

Kartik Chandramouli 31 Jul 2025
The rusty-spotted cat known as the hummingbird of cats falls in the ‘Near Threatened’ category in the IUCN Red List . Photo by Radheshyam Bishnoi

Jungle cat most widespread, rusty-spotted cat declining, finds national survey

Manish Chandra Mishra 29 Jul 2025