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Bat biologist Kadambari Deshpande and technologist Vedant Barje with the BatEchoMon system installed by them. Image by Vivek Hasyagar.

Automating bat detection for more efficient monitoring and data collection

Aisiri Amin 2 Apr 2025

Trishant Simlai on challenging the exploitative nature of conservation surveillance [Interview]

Nikhil Sreekandan 4 Mar 2025

Leopards are adapting to central India’s urban jungle

Sneha Mahale 18 Feb 2025

Drones take wildlife conservation to new heights

Arathi Menon 3 Feb 2025
Syringodium seagrass

Seagrass mapping helps identify restoration potential

Phalguni Ranjan 24 Jan 2025

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