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The Kashmir musk deer is a small, solitary, antlerless deer native to the western Himalayas. Image by Mohsin Javid.

Kashmir musk deer face steep habitat losses under high emissions scenarios

Sneha Mahale 10 Nov 2026
Leatherback hatchlings at Galathea Bay on Great Nicobar Island. Image by Dhritiman Mukherjee.

Great Nicobar’s leatherbacks carry a unique genetic record that a megaport could bury

Madhusree Mukerjee 9 Nov 2026

Two losses this year, but authorities say great Indian bustard’s rewilding is on track

Arathi Menon 6 Nov 2026

Snow trout needs more than reintroduction to survive

Sameeksha Sharma 29 Oct 2026
A golden mahseer in a free-flowing, unobstructed stretch of the Ganga before the Srinagar dam. Maintaining these clear, uninterrupted waterways is critical for the survival, seasonal migration, and genetic variability of Himalayan megafish. Image by Saurabh Dewan.

Community models could help conserve the disappearing migratory freshwater fish [Commentary]

Saurabh Dewan 23 Oct 2026
A marine iguana. Image by RAF-YCC via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

How Columbus’ voyages accelerated the homogenisation of Earth’s biodiversity [Commentary]

R.J. Ranjit Daniels 22 Oct 2026
A male tiger in Ranthambore Tiger Reserve. Image by Koshy Koshy via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

India postpones Cambodia tiger reintroduction

Arathi Menon 24 Sep 2026
A pod of Indian Ocean humpback dolphins photographed from above off the Sindhudurg-Goa coast. Image by Imran Samad.

Finless porpoises are disappearing before they are counted

Mansab Sayyad 16 Jul 2026
A great Indian bustard. Image by Saurabh Sawant via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

A low flyer of the grasslands

Team Mongabay-India 27 May 2026
Mohd Shahnawaz Khan releases a juvenile gharial in Murshidabad, West Bengal. Image courtesy of Mohd Shahnawaz Khan/WWF-India.

Experts divided over reintroducing captive-bred gharials in rivers

Rajeev Tyagi 4 Feb 2026
Galaxy frogs in the Western Ghats. Image by K.P. Rajkumar/ZSL.

Photo tourism threatens rare galaxy frog population

Liz Kimbrough 2 Jan 2026
The blacktip reef shark is a regular catch of coastal fisheries, such as those operating off Thailand and India, but is not targeted or considered commercially important. Photo by Memurubu/Wikimedia Commons.

New study finds world’s sharks, rays and chimaeras at risk of extinction

Spoorthy Raman 27 Jan 2025

1 in 4 freshwater species around the globe at risk of extinction

Kristine Sabillo 22 Jan 2025

[Book Review] A spotlight on India’s vanishing wildlife

Usha Rai 6 Mar 2024

Book on endemic birds says three species almost extinct

Arathi Menon 9 Oct 2023

In Nepal, vulture colonies seen to hold stable amid old and new threats

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 Oct 2023
A Theocostele alata flower.

Loss of orchid species in Bangladesh is “alarming,” say researchers

Farhana Parvin 6 Sep 2023

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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 May 2022

Assam’s wild water buffalo is treading troubled waters

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya, Jyotirmoy Saharia 20 Sep 2021

Finn’s weaver faces a risk of extinction

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 23 Jun 2020