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Artist Bhajju Shyam paints himself immersed in nature, playing the Bana and singing traditional songs. Photo by Manish Chandra Mishra/Mongabay

Converting folklores to fine art

Manish Chandra Mishra 12 Mar 2024
Image of a man with a gun captured by a camera trap.

Privacy concerns rise as wildlife surveillance tech ‘watches’ people

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Aug 2023

Nepal comes next in line to Sri Lanka to debate exporting ‘problematic’ monkeys

Abhaya Raj Joshi 16 May 2023

Environmentalists denounce Sri Lanka’s talks of exporting 100,000 crop-raiding macaques

Malaka Rodrigo 4 May 2023

Experts call for coexistence, sustainable development as tiger population is close to saturation

Saurabh Katkurwar 14 Apr 2023
Conducting fieldwork in Fakim Community Reserve with a local resident Alemba. Photo from Joli Rumi Borah.

[Interview] Conservation scientist Joli Rumi Borah on integrating traditional knowledge in research

Sahana Ghosh 13 Apr 2023

[Interview] Scientist Ruth DeFries on deforestation: There isn’t one driver, there’s a different context in different places

Sahana Ghosh and Kartik Chandramouli 7 Apr 2023
A hummingbird moth.

Decline in pollinators linked to half a million premature human deaths every year, shows study

Jeremy Hance 4 Apr 2023

[Photos] Old homes of Kashmir’s cold valley

Amir Bin Rafi 14 Mar 2023
Lower Dibang Valley. The Etalin project has been controversial because it is planned in a biodiversity-rich area.

Denial of clearance to Etalin hydel project offers relief to some; may impact Arunachal’s hydropower development plan

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya 21 Feb 2023
A family moving to a safe place in Joshmanth. As of January 18,849 houses were damaged and 838 people shifted to safer places. Photo by Manish Kumar/Mongabay

46 years on, there is mountain of studies but Joshimath is still sinking

Shailesh Shrivastava 19 Jan 2023
A fisher harvesting seaweed in the Philippines.

Biodiversity, human rights safeguards are crucial to nature-based solutions, say critics

Sahana Ghosh 19 Jan 2023

Passive restoration of Kashmir’s forests has improved soil structure and carbon sink

Amir Bin Rafi 13 Jan 2023

Helping wildlife navigate road and railway infrastructure

Sahana Ghosh 3 Jan 2023
Shankar, a farmer.

What protecting the slender loris could mean for forest communities in Tamil Nadu

Catherine Gilon 13 Dec 2022
A woman returns from collecting the wood of the dead mangroves from the forest. Photo by Subhrajit Sen/ Mongabay.

Lack of resources slow embankment construction in the Sundarbans

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya 11 Nov 2022
Image shows an aerial shot of a boat in a mangrove

How ecotourism in Konkan promotes climate-friendly tourism

Vinaya Kurtkoti 28 Sep 2022
People walking on a road adjacent to the MSW dump

Untreated legacy waste is polluting the sensitive wetland ecosystem of Deepor Beel

Barasha Das 24 Aug 2022
A Sherpa with a yak at the base camp of Sagarmatha.

[Interview] “There are many Sherpas, not known to the outside world, who regularly summit the mountains”

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Aug 2022
Avicennia marina, more commonly known as grey mangroves or white mangroves. Photo by Dinesh Valke/ Wikimedia Commons.

Successful model of development in tandem with mangrove restoration

T. V. Padma 21 Jul 2022