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The love for momos in Nepal is threatening endangered wild water buffaloes

Abhaya Raj Joshi 17 Apr 2023
A snow leopard.

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

Abhaya Raj Joshi 13 Mar 2023
Sandra Diaz, Argentine ecologist and co-chair of the IPBES Global Assessment, says that the indirect drivers of change such as the way we consume, eat, use energy, trade, and the ideas we have of what is a fulfilling life, impact nature. Photo by Casa Rosada (Argentina Presidency of the Nation)/Wikimedia Commons.

[Interview] IPBES scientist Sandra Diaz on the need for bold targets to tackle biodiversity loss

Sahana Ghosh 15 Dec 2022
Shankar, a farmer.

What protecting the slender loris could mean for forest communities in Tamil Nadu

Catherine Gilon 13 Dec 2022
The habitat of the WWWD in the eastern part of the Indian Eastern Himalayan region, is likely to shift westward.

Climate change threatens the habitat of the endangered white-winged wood duck, finds study

Roopak Goswami 18 Oct 2022
A Royal Bengal tiger

[Interview] “South Asia needs its own regional plan to sustain Bengal tiger population”

Abhaya Raj Joshi 12 Oct 2022
Women in Odisha selling dry fish.

Marine fishing ban in Odisha leads to loss of income for women involved in allied activities

Aishwarya Mohanty 26 Sep 2022
A dolphin in Kulsi river. Photo from Prasanna Kalita.

Gangetic river dolphins in Assam decline in the wake of anthropogenic pressures

Nabarun Guha 24 Aug 2022
Image shows three Sarus cranes foraging at sunset

Habitat changes may be causing sarus cranes to form breeding trios

Kasturi Das 29 Jun 2022
A gharial on the banks of the Rapti River

New gharial hatchlings in Nepal a hopeful sign for the critically endangered reptile

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Jun 2022

Protecting the critical Chambal landscape, one of last viable habitats for red-crowned roofed turtle

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 31 May 2022

Building blocks and biodiversity: India’s ecosystems a part of a global crisis

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 May 2022
An adult male blackbuck in the IIT Madras campus. Photo by B Vinoth, Care Earth Trust.

[Commentary] The shrinking habitats of blackbucks in Chennai

R J Ranjit Daniels and Anjana Vencatesan 26 May 2022

[Interview] Whitley Award winner from Nepal emphasises on crossborder collaboration to protect the red panda

Abhaya Raj Joshi 11 May 2022
Every year hundreds of people and animals die in India due to human-wildlife conflict. Photo by Goldentakin/Flickr.

Mechanism to deal with human-animal conflict needs legislative backing, says parliamentary panel

Mayank Aggarwal 9 May 2022
Glossy ibis flock in a flooded field. In addition to recording observed bird species, Katwal and colleagues also assessed how different agriculture practices influence the abundance of birds by season and the crop mix in the fields. Photo by K. S. Gopi Sundar.

Nepal, India need robust conservation policies for farmland birds outside protected areas

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 May 2022
Pangolins are able to swiftly roll up into ball-like posture when stressed or under threat.

[Interview] Priyan Perera: Shining a light on the little-studied Indian pangolins in Sri Lanka

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 28 Apr 2022

For two years, hundreds of turtles at Varanasi breeding centre are surviving without funds

Chandan Pandey 31 Mar 2022

Sri Lanka growing as smuggling hub for star tortoises mainly collected in India

Malaka Rodrigo, Pragati Prava 28 Mar 2022

Jackie Chan, Balerion and Smaug inspire names of gecko species described from Western Ghats

Liz Kimbrough 26 Oct 2021