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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
Otters painted in the raja gopuram (main tower) of the Thirupudaimaruthur temple, along with wood carvings, serve as the earliest records of otter presence in the region. Image by Maria Anthony.

A village on a river bank shows how community-led river restoration works [Commentary]

Teresa Scholastica Thomas, Sanmadi K.R., I. Santhanamari, M. Mathivanan, M. Soubadra Devy 13 Oct 2025

Primatologist Jane Goodall dies at 91 [Obituary]

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 2 Oct 2025

Habitat conservation stabilises macaque population: Study

Arathi Menon 1 Oct 2025
Representative image of dugongs by Metro Toronto Zoo Toronto Canada via Public Domain.

Dugongs recovering, need cross-border efforts in conservation

Bharath Umapathy 16 Sep 2025
The East Asian free-tailed bat (Tadarida insignia) was recently recorded for the first time in India. Image by Rohit Chakravarty.

New bat species and first records uncovered in the Western Himalayas

Nikhil Sreekandan 22 Aug 2025
The marbled cat, classified as near threatened in the IUCN Red List, receives protection under Schedule I of the Wild Life Protection Act, 1972. It is a small semi-arboreal cat that is similar in size to a large domestic cat, though with a longer, bushy tail. Representative image by James Eaton via Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).

Camera traps confirm marbled cat’s presence in Assam forests

Nabarun Guha 20 Aug 2025

World’s smallest wild cat recorded in West Bengal

Nabarun Guha 19 Aug 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
A dhole in Kabini. Image by Ranjith Kumar 2016 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The return of the dholes

Nabarun Guha 21 Jul 2025
A rise in tiger numbers along with expanding human settlements is bringing people and livestock in contact with these large carnivores, resulting in conflict around protected areas. Image by Himanshu Chattani.

Tracing a tiger from its kill

Bharti Dharapuram 16 Jul 2025
The recent deaths of a female tiger and her four cubs in the Malai Mahadeshwara Wildlife Sanctuary comes as a blow to tiger conservation. It reveals lapses in forest protection, unchecked livestock grazing, and brewing human-animal conflict in the landscape. Representative image of tiger cubs by Gurdeep Singh via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Tiger deaths reveal conservation challenges

Bharti Dharapuram 15 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 camera trap image of a snow leopard marking a rock with its scent. Image by Pankaj Raina et al.

Snow leopard survey finds the elusive cat thriving

Sneha Mahale 3 Jul 2025
Lions in Gir. Image by Bijit Sarkar via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Asiatic lion population has grown 172% in 25 years

Manish Chandra Mishra 13 Jun 2025
Flying squirrels take off from trees and glide down a slope by extending a membrane called the patagium connecting their front and hind limbs. Image by Pavel Kirillov via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Flying squirrel habitats predicted to tailspin under climate change

Bharti Dharapuram 11 Jun 2025

As a treaty breaks, the Indus dolphin faces a different kind of battle [Commentary]

Ajay Sawant 5 Jun 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