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Elephants emerge from the forest in Wayanad. Image by M.K. Ramdas.

Intensifying efforts to tackle human animal conflict, a state-specific disaster

Saritha S. Balan 11 Sep 2025

Satellite data and AI identify deforestation drivers

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 7 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
A highway under construction in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh. Image by iMahesh via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The long road to regulating earth use for highways and railways

Akshay Deshmane 17 Jul 2025
Flying squirrels take off from trees and glide down a slope by extending a membrane called the patagium connecting their front and hind limbs. Image by Pavel Kirillov via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Flying squirrel habitats predicted to tailspin under climate change

Bharti Dharapuram 11 Jun 2025
A markhor and its young photographed in Kashmir. Rising human and livestock populations are making herding a threat to the markhor, as they compete for resources, and risk transmission of diseases and predation — particularly of young ones — by guard dogs. Image by Shabir Hussain Bhat/Wildlife Trust of India.

The markhor is losing crucial grazing habitat to livestock

Hirra Azmat 15 May 2025
bare-bellied hedgehog

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

Arathi Menon 19 Feb 2025
slender loris dindigul kalyan varma

Illegal mining threatens a slender loris sanctuary

George Rajasekaran 6 Feb 2025
Nicobar megapode, one of the many species affected by nicobar development

With Rs. 800 million sanctioned, committees begin monitoring Great Nicobar development project

Simrin Sirur 4 Feb 2025

A wildlife sanctuary in the crossfire

Ruella Rahman Khound 17 Jan 2025

Decline in white-bellied sea eagle nests in coastal areas raises concerns

Navya P K 2 Jan 2025

Studies gain pace while the identity of Kashmir’s langurs remains gray

Arathi Menon 13 Dec 2024

Lion-tailed macaques navigate twin hurdles

Arathi Menon 11 Dec 2024
A colony of painted storks constructs their homes on the Acacia nilotica (desi babool) tree.

[Commentary] Protecting the tree that branches out for migratory painted storks

Harsh Singhal, Manas Singh, Satya Prakash Mehra 10 Dec 2024

No-fuss approach to food helps golden jackals thrive

Arathi Menon 29 Nov 2024
A herd of wild elephants roaming and grazing in Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve. Image by P. K. Verma

Fungus, not kodo millet, responsible for Bandhavgarh elephant deaths

Manish Chandra Mishra 27 Nov 2024

New king cobra study makes hisss…tory

Arathi Menon 20 Nov 2024

Battling infectious, zoonotic diseases despite leading health indicators

Saritha S. Balan 8 Nov 2024
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Climate change, habitat loss drive elephants to look for newer pastures 

Laasya Shekhar 14 Oct 2024

[Explainer] How does habitat fragmentation impact India’s biodiversity hotspots?

Divya Kilikar 15 Jul 2024