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Environmentalists concerned over easy clearances for Bengaluru’s real estate

Bhanu Sridharan 8 Sep 2021

Excitement of Himalayan pheasant sighting dulled by potential threats to the bird

Sahana Ghosh 24 Jun 2021
Wild buffalos, Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India. Photo by Gregoire Dubois/Flickr

Wild buffalo, Chhattisgarh’s state animal, is on the verge of extinction

Alok Prakash Putul 17 Jun 2021
A seasonal nallah located near Bunder diamond block. The nallah will be diverted by constructing a dam to meet water requirements of the mining project. Photo by Aman Tiwari

Two lakh trees and water security at stake in Buxwaha’s Bunder diamond mining project

Manish Chandra Mishra 4 Jun 2021

Human activity disturbs quiet habitat of black-necked cranes in Arunachal Pradesh

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya, Rini Barman 2 Jun 2021

[Commentary] Wildlife in Tillari valley at risk from land-use change

Narendra Patil 31 May 2021

The risks of tree plantation in grassland and non-forest areas

Shreya Dasgupta 25 May 2021

[Interview] Bittu Sahgal: “Young people want to protect the environment, but don’t have their hands on the wheel”

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 21 May 2021

Saving the Asiatic black bear from illegal wildlife trade needs nuanced conservation

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 23 Apr 2021

Grassland burning, clearing imperils birds of Brahmaputra’s river islands

Chandrani Sinha 22 Feb 2021

[Commentary] Conserving orchids through community participation in a Manipur village

Ng Ngashangva 18 Feb 2021

Perils of the Phayre’s leaf monkey

Shatabdi Chakrabarti 8 Feb 2021
Leopard in BR_Hills

India records increase in leopard population but real number could be much more

Manish Chandra Mishra, Mayank Aggarwal 30 Dec 2020
Local community members at Bentapada village in Athgarh district make seed balls. Photo by Special Arrangement.

Odisha, Chhattisgarh try new ways to reduce human-elephant conflict

Manish Kumar 10 Nov 2020
Crested black macaque. Image by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay.

Unique primate habitat in Indonesia under threat from palm oil plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Oct 2020

Illegal industrial and mining activities continue in great Indian bustard’s habitat in Maharashtra

Himanshu Nitnaware 20 Oct 2020
A group of Khur in LRK with Prosopis julifera in the background and waste water released from the farmlands in the foreground. Photo by Abhijit Dutta

[Commentary] Isolated pockets of unique wildlife populations of Gujarat need immediate attention

Abhijit Dutta 12 Oct 2020

The slender loris struggles to find canopy in Bengaluru

Mohit M. Rao 24 Sep 2020

[Commentary] Of ants and antelopes – the ecological history of Chennai was not what one would imagine

R.J. Ranjit Daniels; N. Muthu Karthick; Anjana Vencatesan and Jayshree Vencatesan 22 Sep 2020

Nature in peril as biodiversity losses mount alarmingly, states the Living Planet Report

Soumya Sarkar 16 Sep 2020