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A sloth bear in Daroji Sloth Bear Sanctuary. Image by Bikash Das via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

The bear that evolved to hunt ants

Team Mongabay-India 14 Oct 2026
A pet African grey parrot in Yercaud, Tamil Nadu. More than 40,000 people in India have declared their exotic pets. By law, pet owners must register possession, transfer, birth and death of species listed in the Wild Life (Protection) Act. Representative image by Yercaud-elango via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Legal system fails to keep pace with India’s growing exotic pet industry

Arathi Menon 1 Oct 2026

The visiting grassland gardeners

Team Mongabay-India 30 Sep 2026

From the Wild, For Trade

Team Mongabay-India 25 Sep 2026

NGOs call for permanent moratorium on animal imports to Vantara

Simrin Sirur 25 Sep 2026
Care must be provided to an infant orangutan that is being looked after at a rescue center after losing its mother. Image by Junaidi Hanafiah/Mongabay Indonesia.

Five orangutans found in Odisha forest face long road back home to Indonesia

Junaidi Hanafiah 24 Sep 2026
A snow leopard in Kaza, Himachal Pradesh. Image by Bharath Kumar Venkatesh via Pexels.

The ghost of the mountains

Team Mongabay-India 23 Sep 2026
A Himalayan snowcock. Image courtesy of Himachal Pradesh Forest Department and Nature Conservation Foundation.

High-altitude bird hotspots remain outside protected areas

Kasturi Das 17 Sep 2026
A customer buys caged birds at a pet market in Kolkata, West Bengal. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

Your exotic pet could be putting your health at risk

Arathi Menon 10 Sep 2026
A tiger in Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve, from where tigers disperse to Kawal Tiger Reserve. Image by A.J.T Johnsingh, WWF-India & NCF via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The tiger reserve with abundant prey but no resident tigers

Nivedhika Krishnan 8 Sep 2026

Crime content on social media threatens wildlife safety

Vandana K. 27 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
A herd of elephants captured by camera traps at an altitude of over 3,200 metres, the highest known record of elephant presence. Image courtesy of WWF-India/Arunachal Pradesh Forest Department.

As elephants venture to higher altitudes researchers track possibilities of conflict

Manish Chandra Mishra 3 Jul 2026
A caracal photographed by a camera trap at night in Kuno National Park, Madhya Pradesh. Image courtesy of Kuno National Park.

New camera-trap record confirms caracal presence in Kuno

Manish Chandra Mishra 1 Jul 2026
A Chinese pangolin rescued and released by Wildlife Trust of India in Arunachal Pradesh. Image by Panjit Basumatary/WTI.

A community leads protection of the pangolin in a critical illegal trade corridor

Kasturi Das 7 May 2026
Sambar deer in Maharashtra. The recent paper highlights an increase in herbivore populations, better nutrition from crop foraging, and a waning fear of humans as pull factors of crop damage by herbivores in the state. Image by Revati Sarnaik via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Fear may deter wild animals from damaging crops, study suggests

Arathi Menon 27 Mar 2026
Gadgil visits Yashawantrao Chavan Institute of Science, Satara, Maharashtra, in 2017. Image by Subodh Kulkarni via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Madhav Gadgil – a scientist, mentor and an institution builder [Obituary]

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 8 Jan 2026
M.I. Varghese, a retired Indian Forest Service officer, legal scholar, and author of A Treatise on Forest Laws in Kerala. Image by K.A. Shaji.

Forest ecology cannot be reduced to arithmetic, says M.I. Varghese [Interview]

K.A. Shaji 15 Dec 2025
An Asiatic lion in Gir National Park. While the WLPA has created a legal framework for protectionist conservation, its effectiveness in ensuring species recovery beyond the iconic mega-fauna like the tiger, lion, leopard and elephant has been limited. Image by Tanmay Haldar via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The case for a new legal framework to protect India’s wildlife and livelihoods [Commentary]

Mathen Rajeev Mathew 3 Dec 2025