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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
wild elephants kerala

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

Study finds leopard cats and red foxes cohabit regions in the Western Himalayas

Simrin Sirur 27 Jun 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
Migratory beekeepers from Bihar, at Barpeta in Assam.

Migratory beekeepers sweeten Assam’s honey production

Barasha Das 6 May 2024

Species no bar: Langurs forge unusual alliances in the wild

Arathi Menon 18 Apr 2024

Majuli’s shrinking wetlands and their fight for survival

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 15 Apr 2024

Nilgiri pipit seeks better status as habitat shrinks

Arathi Menon 9 Apr 2024

Deaths in human-animal conflict in Wayanad spark protests and debates

Saritha S. Balan 6 Mar 2024
Image shows two sloth bears with a tree branch in the foreground

An invasive plant is threatening sloth bear habitats and could increase conflict

Sneha Mahale 26 Feb 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

Dachigam National Park at risk as forest cover, natural habitat reduces, reveals study

Hirra Azmat 24 Nov 2023
Farmer Ghulam Hassan examines the feathery shell of the damaged saffron corms and a quill that is left behind by the porcupines following a nocturnal attack on his field.

Loss of forest cover in Kashmir is pitting a protected animal against the world’s costliest spice

Abrar Mattoo 23 Nov 2023