Protected areas News

RSS
242 stories

Impact of armed conflicts on wildlife underestimated: study

Sahana Ghosh 28 Jul 2021

Longest dispersal of a female tiger recorded in Central India

Neha Jain 12 Jul 2021

In rare behaviour, male tiger cares for cubs after mother’s death

Manish Chandra Mishra 5 Jul 2021

Reviving the critically endangered gharials in Odisha

Tazeen Qureshy 22 Jun 2021

[Commentary] Conserving marine ecosystems through the Wild Life Protection Act is not very effective

Shivani Swami 10 Jun 2021

A new tiger reserve holds hope for revival of Vaigai river in Madurai

K.A. Shaji 2 Jun 2021
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

The risks of tree plantation in grassland and non-forest areas

Shreya Dasgupta 25 May 2021

[Interview] Bittu Sahgal: “Young people want to protect the environment, but don’t have their hands on the wheel”

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 21 May 2021
In total, 121 wildlife corridors have been identified across Chhattisgarh for the Strategic Plan for Conservation of Corridors. It is the first state to identify corridors for all kinds of wildlife. Photo from Chhattisgarh Forest department.

Forest department identifies wildlife corridors in Chhattisgarh for conservation

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 18 May 2021

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

Supriya Vohra 13 May 2021
White-bellied heron spotted in Arunachal Pradesh. Photo by Dekbin Yonggam.

Elusive white-bellied heron spotted in the high Himalayas

Ranju Dodum 6 May 2021
A male gharial basks at a nesting site cleared of vegetation. Photo by Gaurav Vashistha

Gharial nesting threatened by woody vegetation on riverbanks

Neha Jain 3 May 2021

Controversial uranium mining project shelved in Telangana

M. Somasekhar 8 Apr 2021
Rucervus eldii eldii

Threatened sangai deer’s habitat likely to shrink due to climate change

Roopak Goswami 2 Apr 2021
The Mandarin duck in northeast India. Photo by Ranjan Kumar Das.

Mandarin duck sighting raises awareness on lesser-known wetlands

Rini Barman 25 Mar 2021
Otters in a bird sanctuary at Uppalapadu near Guntur in Andhra Pradesh. Photo by Ch.Vijay Bhaskar.

Otter sighting in Andhra bird sanctuary raises excitement but also questions

M. Somasekhar 24 Mar 2021

Attappady residents fear more restrictions with eco-sensitive areas and zones

Nimisha S. Pradeep 17 Mar 2021

Great Nicobar’s protected areas to get near-zero eco-sensitive zones for “holistic development”

Mayank Aggarwal 8 Mar 2021
Agriculture in the Western Ghats. Photo by Jenny Mackness/Flickr.

Cropland takes up 6% of global protected areas: study

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 Mar 2021