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Bare-bellied and barely seen, Madras hedgehog needs a headcount

Arathi Menon 19 Feb 2025

Sacred groves deserve recognition as forests, says Supreme Court

Simrin Sirur 26 Dec 2024

Your Environment This Week: Indian savannas, secret lives of small cats, food insecurity in the Himalayas

Team Mongabay India 13 Sep 2024

A new remote sensing study spotlights Indian savannas

Nikhil Sreekandan 12 Sep 2024

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

Sneha Mahale 21 Jun 2024

Where are the birds of the shrinking grasslands of Maharashtra?

Divya Kilikar 27 May 2024

Banni’s edible local grasses threatened by the spread of Prosopis

Azera Parveen Rahman 3 Apr 2024

Saving India’s wild ‘unicorns’ 

Arathi Menon 26 Mar 2024

Silence of the wolves: How human landscapes alter howling behaviour

Sneha Mahale 15 Feb 2024

More wild water buffaloes in central India to fix population decline and ecological degradation

Arathi Menon 9 Feb 2024

While Banni readies for cheetah, native pastoralists demand land rights

Dhairya Gajara 30 Jan 2024

Graze or blaze: Study looks at ways to manage grass dominance in savannahs

Arathi Menon 8 Dec 2023
Concrete porcupine screens installed on the river bank to stop erosion on a river island near Daying Ering Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary. Photo: Jyotirmoy Saharia

Grassland loss threatens endemic birds in Arunachal sanctuary

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya, Jyotirmoy Saharia 30 Nov 2023

Declining bird populations are a ‘grim’ reminder of rapid biodiversity loss, says new report

Simrin Sirur 29 Aug 2023
Saw-scaled viper under a rock in the rock outcrops in the Ratnagiri region of Maharashtra. Photo: Jithin Vijayan

Studies reveal impact of land use on species diversity in rock outcrops

Arathi Menon 14 Aug 2023

[Interview] Conservationist MK Ranjitsinh Jhala on the need for a grassland policy in India

Sahana Ghosh and Kartik Chandramouli 24 Mar 2023
Banni in Gujarat, is among the largest grasslands in India, and has been earmarked for large-scale grass plantations via tillage.

[Commentary] Restoring Indian grasslands does not require disturbing soil and planting grasses, but more science

Ashish Nerlekar and Ankila Hiremath 8 Aug 2022
Tephrosia calophylla is an endemic species discovered in India's grasslands. More endemic species are waiting to be discovered, underscores a new study. Photo by R. Ganesan.

Indian grasslands hold a treasure trove of endemic plants

Sahana Ghosh 8 Mar 2022

Environmental activism in the Nilgiris: too early to rejoice?

Nina Varghese 15 Jul 2021

Are we overlooking the role of grasslands in mitigating climate change?

Aathira Perinchery 29 Jun 2021