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Conservation drones need to overcome some takeoff troubles

Laasya Shekhar 19 Aug 2024

Innovative air-to-water tech using liquid desiccant makes affordable, renewable water

Arathi Menon 13 Aug 2024

A Ladakhi podcast spurs conversations about wildlife and conservation

Kasturi Das 17 Jul 2024
One of the four saltwater crocodiles in Bangladesh with a newly installed satellite transmitter, released into the wild. Image by Md Mofizur Rahaman Chowdury.

Tagging crocodiles with satellite transmitters

Rafiqul Islam 14 May 2024
A lion in Gir National Park.

A new web tool offers ways to trace where illegal lion parts come from

Malavika Vyawahare 15 Jan 2024

India gears to use eDNA to identify, track wildlife

Sanjeev Kumar 22 Dec 2023

Pythons return home, slowly but surely, finds a new study

Arathi Menon 6 Dec 2023
An elephant with a radio collar walks through a coffee estate on May 18, 2023, near Sakleshpur, Hassan district, Karnataka. Photo by Abhishek N. Chinnappa

There is more to radio collaring than cheetah deaths

Arathi Menon 6 Oct 2023
A male cheetah introduced in Kuno National Park. Photo from Cheetah Conservation Fund.

Cheetahs introduced in Kuno National Park struggle with humidity and weather conditions

Shuchita Jha 24 Aug 2023
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
Fish kill in a temple pond Iranikkulam near Mala, Thrissur district on April 10, 2019. 

Warming water and pollution amplify fish mortality in Kerala during summer

Reema Abraham 15 May 2023
Loco Pilots allege negligence on implementation of safety measures around important elephant corridors. Photo from Northeast Frontier Railway.

Assam loco pilots on the need for effective communication to prevent elephant-rail collision

Barasha Das 9 Jan 2023

Identifying individual mugger crocodiles using drone technology to minimise conflicts

Anusha Krishnan 24 Nov 2022
Dahisar in north Mumbai. Photo by Saumitra Shinde/Mongabay.

Mumbai activists demand that the tree geo-tagging information be made public

Hepzi Anthony 20 Oct 2022

A dose of eco-optimism: Stories of hope and inspiration in 2019

Aditi Tandon 31 Dec 2019

Keeping the Mahatma’s light shining

Kanchan Srivastava 30 Sep 2019
(L to R) Ranjitha (radio jockey), Durga (volunteer) and Aparna (station director) inside the recording room at Kalanjiam Samuga Vanoli, a community radio station based in Nagapattinam district, Tamil Nadu. Photo by Kartik Chandramouli/Mongabay.

How a community radio gives voice to the climate-vulnerable in Tamil Nadu

Kartik Chandramouli 23 Sep 2019

A social venture on the road to improve lives, reduce emissions with electric rickshaws

Kartik Chandramouli 5 Aug 2019

Turning agro-waste into environment-friendly plastics

Sahana Ghosh 30 Jul 2019

Community farming in Goa emerges as a tool against land conversion

Pamela D'Mello 24 Jul 2019