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Representative image of elephant herd by Nissan Sharma via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Expanding elephant range fuels human-wildlife conflict

Sneha Mahale 18 Sep 2025
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
Mithuns in Roing in Lower Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh. Image by Divya Kilikar/Mongabay.

Conflicted over attacks on mithuns, experts gun for hunting ban

Kasturi Das 9 Sep 2025
Kuribeel in Manas National Park. Image courtesy of the Office of the Field Director, Manas Tiger Reserve. 

Two decades after civil unrest, wildlife makes a steady recovery

Shailesh Shrivastava 1 Sep 2025
Blyth's tragopan. Image by Satem Longchar.

Evolving hunting practices pose an increasing threat to wildlife

Barasha Das 25 Aug 2025
Sandesh Kadur. Image ©Robin Darius Conz/Felis Images.

Sandesh Kadur on documenting the shared wilderness in the Nilgiris [Interview]

Priyanka Shankar 8 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
The construction of the Mandal dam began in the 1970s, and was left unfinished. It is now being revived, and met with protests from local communities who are being denied the jobs, land titles and compensation promised. Image by Ashwini Kumar Shukla/Mongabay.

A dam that drowned dreams but never delivered water

Ashwini Kumar Shukla 1 Aug 2025
Brahmagiri serves as a crucial corridor for elephants and tigers, raising concerns about human-wildlife conflict that could intensify if the tribal colony is established.  The proposed land witnesses high wildlife activity and cattle lifting by tigers is frequently reported from nearby villages. Image by Bose Madappa.

Tribal resettlement near the forest a wild idea, say environmentalists

Arathi Menon 30 Jul 2025

Growing pains accompanied by a growing love of the wild [Book Review]

Nandhini Somasundaram 22 Jul 2025
My Otter Diary shows the daily life of Maya and her family, who survive on the declining fish in the river. Image by Sugandhi Gadadhar and Raghunath Belur.

Filming the elusive and vulnerable smooth-coated otters

Aisiri Amin 8 Jul 2025
A tigress and cubs. Representative image by Davidvraju via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Tigress and four cubs found dead in Karnataka

Divya Kilikar 27 Jun 2025
Jaigir lies in the core of the Palamu Tiger Reserve. Image by Ashwini Kumar Shukla/Mongabay.

Making way for tigers, moving human settlements

Ashwini Kumar Shukla 27 Jun 2025
A tiger in Kaziranga National Park. Representative image by Sagar via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Tiger death highlights strained human-wildlife interactions

Nabarun Guha 13 Jun 2025
Kanhai Prasad, a farmer in Charai village, secures a mesh netting to protect his crops. "All night you can hear tractors roaring from the forest edge, blasting loud music and crushing stone,” he said. Image by Ashwini Kumar Shukla/Mongabay.

Stone crushers drive nilgai into fields, damaging crops

Ashwini Kumar Shukla 29 May 2025

Human-wildlife conflict encounters highlight mental health concerns

Robin Chauhan 28 May 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
Elephants and people constantly overlap , leading to human-elephant conflict in the districts of Hassan, Kodagu, and Chikkamagaluru. Traditional mitigation methods like direct translocation or permanent captivity often fail, leading to the innovation of the soft release centre. Image by Vinod Krishnan.

Experts conflicted over the hard decision to soft release problem jumbos

Arathi Menon 13 May 2025
A shepherd from the Bakarwal community of Jammu and Kashmir with her livestock. Image by Amitkanwar919 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The costs of coexisting with predators

Sneha Mahale 6 May 2025
Protecting core areas ensures tiger populations remain at sustainable levels. Photo Credit David V Raju via Wikimedia Commons

The rise, fall, and return of India’s tigers

Sneha Mahale 27 Feb 2025