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The last surviving population of a red deer rises

Team Mongabay-India 25 Mar 2026
A sloth bear mother and cub. Caves on rocky hillocks provide hidden shelters that offer shade, safety and a place for mothers to raise cubs. Image by L. Shyamal via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Sloth bears den between a rock and a safe place

Sneha Mahale 25 Mar 2026

A predator in the grasslands

Team Mongabay-India 11 Mar 2026
The study found desert foxes strongly preferring open native vegetation and avoided mesquite woodland and farmland. Image by Chetan Misher.

Invasive trees, roaming dogs, and the fragile balance of Thar’s desert predators

Sneha Mahale 9 Mar 2026
A striped hyena at a rocky outcrop. Image by Indrajeet Ghorpade.

Agropastoral landscapes as refuge for wildlife

Arathi Menon 26 Feb 2026
A dung beetle in the Thar desert. Image by Vyacheslav Argenberg via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

What wild poop can teach children about ecology [Book review]

Kasturi Das 25 Feb 2026

What are colour aberrations in mammals? [Explainer]

Nikhil Sreekandan 19 Feb 2026
A Malabar spiny dormouse. Small rodents have shared spaces with human civilisation for centuries, and find mentions in folklore and stories. Image by Davidvraju via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Living with small mammals [Commentary]

Krishnamurthy K.V. 17 Feb 2026
A board erected on land purchased to strengthen an elephant corridor adjoining the BRT and Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve. Image by Ananda Siddhartha.

Land acquired for strengthening elephant corridors, pressurises farmer livelihoods [Commentary]

Ananda Siddhartha 16 Feb 2026
An Indian grey wolf. Image by Rudraksha Chodankar via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why wolf psychology matters for community-based conservation [Commentary]

Devvrat Singh, Rohit R.S. Jha 5 Feb 2026
A tiger in Ranthambore. Image by Anupal31 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

New DNA analysis reveals tigers feeding on more diverse prey

Sneha Mahale 2 Feb 2026
Mahouts ready a captive elephant for safaris in Kaziranga National Park. Image by SeethaG via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Elephant’s death spotlights conditions in safari tourism

Nabarun Guha 13 Jan 2026
Himalayan brown bears are elusive, largely nocturnal and occur at very low densities, making direct sightings rare. Image by WII camera-trap.

Study identifies prime brown bear habitats beyond protected areas

Sneha Mahale 9 Jan 2026
An Asiatic lion in Gir National Park. Image by Bernard Gagnon via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0),

Majority of Asiatic lions are found outside Gir protected areas

Simrin Sirur 7 Jan 2026
A train station in Assam. Experts say that elephant–train collisions are not new to people in the Kampur subdivision in Nagaon. In 2016, four elephants were mowed down by a train, close to the spot of the recent accident. Representative image by Himanshum14 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Jumbo deaths on tracks expose gaps in wildlife safety

Nabarun Guha 31 Dec 2025

Climate change shaped primate populations in northeast India

Anusha Krishnan 23 Dec 2025
Dholes in Bandipur, Karnataka. Image by Mike Prince via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Where the wild dog can roam

Sneha Mahale 4 Dec 2025
A camera trap image captures a pack of golden jackals feeding on a crowned river turtle. Image by Gourav Sonawane.

Golden jackals are a growing threat to endangered crowned river turtles

Shweta Yogi 6 Nov 2025
Women from Kibber village set up a camera trap on a steep slope in Spiti Valley during the state-wide snow leopard survey. Image courtesy of the Nature Conservation Foundation and Himachal Pradesh Forest Department.

In the high Himalayas, women and communities build a shared future for the snow leopard

Manish Chandra Mishra 15 Oct 2025
A dugong swims towards the surface of the waters around Neil island, Andaman and Nicobar. Image by Vardhan Patankar.

Heavy metal bioaccumulation weighs down dugongs

Phalguni Ranjan 14 Oct 2025