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Image shows a herd of elephants walking through a paddy field in India

Fences of lemon trees keep elephants away from Assam farmers’ crops and homes

Kasturi Das 15 Jun 2022

Farmer unions demand vermin status for wild boars, Centre highlights their role in forest habitat

K.A. Shaji 9 Jun 2022
Every year hundreds of people and animals die in India due to human-wildlife conflict. Photo by Goldentakin/Flickr.

Mechanism to deal with human-animal conflict needs legislative backing, says parliamentary panel

Mayank Aggarwal 9 May 2022
Forest team patrolling with the help of captive elephants in Madhya Pradesh. Image by Satyendra Kumar Tiwari

Spirits are low this mahua season as fear and grief take over these MP villages

Manish Chandra Mishra 26 Apr 2022

[Commentary] The year of the tiger – and of wild tigers

Rajesh Gopal, Mohnish Kapoor 12 Apr 2022
A view of Deepor Beel Wildlife Sanctuary. Photo by Sanskrita Bharadwaj.

Saving elephants from train hits near Deepor beel in Assam

Sanskrita Bharadwaj 17 Mar 2022

Mahananda river survey records 190 dolphins, warns of fishing threats to Red List species

Seema Sharma 17 Feb 2022
A baby elephant in Lataguri Forest, West Bengal

[Book Review] An ecologist’s ode to his field assistant, elephants and Buxa

Renuka Kulkarni 16 Feb 2022

Gadchiroli’s new jumbo visitors could make the forests their permanent home

Saurabh Katkurwar 30 Nov 2021

[Commentary] Keeping wildlife wild: Learnings from rehabilitating the world’s smallest wild cat

Neha Panchamia 22 Nov 2021

Films that offer a space for discussion on complex environmental issues

Priyanka Shankar 3 Nov 2021
Remnant forests in large tea monocultures in Darjeeling, Eastern Himalayas. Photo by Annesha Chowdhury.

Tea plantations support biodiversity when managed agroecologically

Roopak Goswami 1 Nov 2021
Forest staff before search operation to track tigers begin. Photo by Saurabh Katkurwar.

Tigers return to Gadchiroli forests after 30 years, human-animal conflict spikes

Saurabh Katkurwar 27 Oct 2021
A Waghoba worshipper at Film City in Goregaon, Mumbai. Photo by Ramya Nair/Project Waghoba.

Worshipping Waghoba: Faith meets conservation in Maharashtra where humans and leopards share space

Aathira Perinchery 4 Oct 2021
Camp elephants carrying forest staff in tourism zone of Kanha Tiger Reserve. Photo by T. R. Shankar Raman/Wikimedia commons 

The absence of captive elephants in Madhya Pradesh is impacting tiger conservation

Manish Chandra Mishra 28 Sep 2021

Yes, No or Maybe: Fate of Hasdeo Arand forest back in limbo

Mayank Aggarwal 23 Sep 2021

Will Odisha notify 14 proposed elephant corridors?

Manish Kumar 16 Sep 2021

Environmentalists concerned over easy clearances for Bengaluru’s real estate

Bhanu Sridharan 8 Sep 2021

Study examines wildlife-friendly land use for conservation beyond Nagarahole and Bandipur national parks

Rishika Pardikar 31 Aug 2021

Sustainable strategies needed to manage human-wild boar conflict in Goa, experts say

Sneha Mahale 16 Aug 2021