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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

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
A rescued baby Siamang gibbon at YOSL-OIC. Image by Peter Ong.

Abandoning exotic pets raises ecological concerns

Arathi Menon 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
An orangutan seized by YOSL-OIC in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Image by Panut Hadisiswoyo.

As exotic primates reach India, welfare concerns grow

Arathi Menon 18 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

Crime content on social media threatens wildlife safety

Vandana K. 27 Aug 2026
A Sistan sand boa. Image by Vivek Sharma.

New sand boa species calls for attention

Arathi Menon 24 Jun 2026
The entrance to the tiger reintroduction site. Image by Andy Ball/Mongabay.

Bengal tigers from India to be introduced in Cambodia

Arathi Menon, Andy Ball 4 Jun 2026
An Indian pangolin. Image by A.J.T. Johnsingh, WWF-India and NCF via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The mammal wrapped in a shield of scales

Team Mongabay-India 20 May 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
Rhinos bathe in a river at Chitwan National Park in Nepal. Image by Jitendra Raj Bajracharya/ICIMOD.

Rising illegal wildlife trade across Himalayan countries threatens the mountain ecosystem

Vandana K. 29 Apr 2026
One of the nine camera traps (seven of which were placed on the advise of Adi community members) yielded this image of a Chinese pangolin digging a burrow. Image by Chiging Pilia/NCF.

Indigenous knowledge to track and save the Chinese pangolin

Nikhil Sreekandan 17 Dec 2025
An orangutan with offspring in Betung Kerihun National Park, Indonesia. Representative image by Sabar Minsyah via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

CITES withdraws recommendation to suspend trade of endangered species to India

Simrin Sirur 25 Nov 2025
A female bonobo. Representative image by Hans Hillewaert via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

India defends animal imports, calls wildlife governance ‘unmatched’

Simrin Sirur 14 Nov 2025
Representative image of a male chimpanzee at a national park. Image © Giles Laurent, gileslaurent.com via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Global biodiversity assessment counters Supreme Court’s clean chit to Vantara

Simrin Sirur 5 Nov 2025

DNA test cracks the case of mistaken quails

Kartik Chandramouli 31 Jul 2025
A common colour morph of the dwarf gourami (Colisa lalia) in an aquarium. Image by Jvarszegi via Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain).

Global trade in ornamental freshwater fish drives invasion and conservation challenges [Commentary]

R.J. Ranjit Daniels 14 Apr 2025
Small-scale gillnet fishers in Goa. Image by Trisha Gupta.

Understanding India’s shark supply chains to make them sustainable

Neha Jain 3 Mar 2025