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Celebrating the life and work of Madhav Gadgil

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 13 Jan 2026
P.V. Shivaprasad. Image by Sharmila Vaidyanathan.

P.V. Shivaprasad talks about rice, food security and his fascination with plants [Interview]

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 1 Jan 2026
Vivek Menon birding in Seinthuk town (now known as Shergaon) in Arunachal Pradesh. Image by Madhumay.

Vivek Menon becomes the first Asian chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission [Interview]

Nikhil Sreekandan 18 Dec 2025

Achyut Kumar Banerjee on curating a database of invasive plants in India [Interview]

Nikhil Sreekandan 6 Nov 2025
The brown forest bob (Scobura woolletti) was known in parts of Southeast Asia, and thought to be a rare sight in the Northeast. A 2010 study however revealed that the butterflies recorded in the Northeast was a different species, now named Scobura parawoolletti or Assam forest bob (seen in the photo). Image by Sarangapani Neog.

Sarangapani Neog on documenting butterflies in a sanctuary [Interview]

Barasha Das 12 Sep 2025
A Hanuman langur leaps over tree tops in Nagarahole Tiger Reserve, Karnataka. Image by Nikhil More via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Mewa Singh on chasing monkeys for over half a century [Interview]

Arathi Menon 18 Aug 2025

What goes into an editorial illustration? [Interview]

Saumitra Shinde 24 Jul 2025

Dinesh Holla on trekking the Western Ghats for ecological awareness [Interview]

Shradha Triveni 12 Jun 2025
A cleanliness drive held in Udupi, Karnataka. Image courtesy of Baeru.

World Environment Day: a rising wave against ocean waste

Saumitra Shinde 5 Jun 2025
Sandhya Sekar in Kerala, India in 2025. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Sandhya Sekar on how Mongabay India took root [Interview]

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jun 2025
Gopi Warrier in Kerala in May 2025. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler.

How Gopi Warrier helped build Mongabay India’s newsroom [Interview]

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jun 2025

A veteran environmental journalist on 40 years of writing on wildlife: Bittu Sahgal [Interview]

Divya Kilikar 25 Mar 2025

[Interview] Neeraj Mahar on the rarely seen and poorly researched Pallas’s cat

Shailesh Shrivastava 17 Jul 2024

[Interview] “This is in honour of adivasis fighting for their land, water, forest,” says Goldman Prize winner Alok Shukla

Simrin Sirur 30 Apr 2024

[Interview] Ecologist and policy expert S. Faizi advocates for putting ‘justice’ at the heart of conservation

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 2 Apr 2024

[Interview] Camelia Dewan on how ‘climate change’ is becoming a development buzzword to continue business as usual

Simrin Sirur 26 Feb 2024

[Interview] Climate change talks do not take nature into consideration in its economics: Partha Dasgupta

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 5 Dec 2023

[Interview] Former forest officer Rajiv Bhartari on zoning in Corbett Tiger Reserve and its impacts

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Oct 2023

[Book Review] Pioneer ecologist Madhav Gadgil on his life spent in, and for, India’s biodiversity

Usha Rai 30 Oct 2023
Three elephants.

[Interview] Author Karen Bakker tunes in to the world of non-human sounds

John Cannon 1 Nov 2022