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A tiger walks past a vehicle carrying tourists in Ranthambore National Park in 2010. (AP Photo/ Mustafa Quraishi, File)

Tourism, human disturbance linked to higher stress in tigers

Sneha Mahale 11 Aug 2026
Dasharam Thakre, a grazer from Borghundi village in Balaghat district, Madhya Pradesh. Thakre plays an important role in locating dead cattle and facilitating relief. Image by Ravin Mahle.

As herders quit, the skills that helped human-tiger coexistence, disappear [Commentary]

Varun Sharma 10 Aug 2026
Labourers work at a metro line project in Aarey colony, amid protests against felling of trees in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Representative image. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Supreme court upholds centre’s power to notify post-facto clearance

Kundan Pandey 7 Aug 2026
Dholes feed on a deer in Karnataka. Representative image by T.A. Joseph via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

New DNA analysis reveals what dholes eat

Rajeev Tyagi 24 Jul 2026
A colony of painted storks constructs their homes on the Acacia nilotica (desi babool) tree.

[Commentary] Protecting the tree that branches out for migratory painted storks

Harsh Singhal, Manas Singh, Satya Prakash Mehra 10 Dec 2024

Saving India’s wild ‘unicorns’ 

Arathi Menon 26 Mar 2024
The rufous-necked hornbill (Aceros nipalensis) is found in Namdapha National Park.

Namdapha National Park deforestation causes clash between authorities and Yobin communities

Spoorthy Raman 3 Aug 2022
A Van Gujjar with a herd of buffaloes. Rearing cattle is a part of their traditional nomadic lifestyle. Image credit: Radhika Gupta

Van Gujjars: People of the forest or nowhere?

Radhika Gupta 28 May 2021

Proposed infrastructure through Goa’s protected areas red-flagged by SC-appointed panel

Supriya Vohra 13 May 2021

Latest Kaziranga expansion brings back fear of evictions among residents

Anupam Chakravartty 25 Nov 2020

Save tiger reserves and reap trillions in economic benefits, says report

Mayank Aggarwal 7 Aug 2019

Indo-Nepal Border Road rides roughshod on Uttar Pradesh wildlife habitat

Kanchan Srivastava 7 May 2019

Apps for animals: Conservation tech’s new frontier

Manon Verchot 25 Dec 2018

It takes a village to fight off rhino poaching

Moushumi Basu 28 May 2018

A small village in Jaldapara is reeling under illegal trading of rhino horns

Moushumi Basu 25 May 2018

Kaziranga facing twin threats of rampant mining, erosion: NTCA

Sahana Ghosh 23 May 2018

Novel ‘begging’ behaviour observed in bonnet macaques at Bandipur

Sandhya Sekar 10 May 2018

[Interview] Imagining an alternative future

Darryl D'Monte 1 May 2018

Naraikadu: Where citizens conserved a forest for 100 years

Sibi Arasu 24 Apr 2018

Playing Cupid to conserve the remaining pygmy hogs in Assam

Sahana Ghosh 30 Mar 2018