Wildlife News

RSS
509 stories

The largest land mammal in the country

Team Mongabay-India 2 Sep 2026
Amphinomidae sp. bristle worms. Image by Moumita Bhowmik.

A world of bristles beneath the waves

Nikhil Sreekandan 1 Sep 2026
A flock of great hornbills in Valparai, Tamil Nadu. Image by Rohit Jahnavi via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Genetic blueprint of four Asian hornbills offers new tool for hornbill research

Nikhil Sreekandan 31 Aug 2026

Crime content on social media threatens wildlife safety

Vandana K. 27 Aug 2026
A juvenile leatherback turtle. Image by Ken Clifton via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

The largest living sea turtle

Team Mongabay-India 26 Aug 2026
A camera trap image of a wolf and pup. Image courtesy of Jharkhand Forest Department.

Study from India’s first wolf sanctuary reveals when livestock are most at risk

Sneha Mahale 25 Aug 2026

India’s only singing, swinging ape

Team Mongabay-India 19 Aug 2026
A greater hog badger caught on camera trap after dusk. Image courtesy of Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve.

A hidden population of greater hog badgers spotted on camera traps

Deekshita Baruah 19 Aug 2026
Invasive giant African snails spotted in Kerala. Image by Drajay1976 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Invasives impact in Global South needs more attention

Arathi Menon 14 Aug 2026
A Nilgiri pipit, the only grassland specialist species that was part of the study. Image by P. Jeganathan via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Disappearing grasslands impact bird populations, study finds

Simrin Sirur 14 Aug 2026
A male Nagami mithun. Image by Harshit Kumar.

Genetic study of the Arunachali mithun flags declining breeding population

Barasha Das 13 Aug 2026

Nine anchor species could meet India’s biodiversity and climate targets

Shradha Triveni 13 Aug 2026

Free-ranging dogs, changing livelihoods reshape an agro-pastoral landscape

Phalguni Ranjan 13 Aug 2026
An Indian flying fox perches on a banana tree. Image by Praveen P. via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

The world’s only flying mammal

Team Mongabay-India 12 Aug 2026
A tiger walks past a vehicle carrying tourists in Ranthambore National Park in 2010. (AP Photo/ Mustafa Quraishi, File)

Tourism, human disturbance linked to higher stress in tigers

Sneha Mahale 11 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
A pair of bar-headed geese in flight. They migrate from Central Asia to India in large flocks during the winter. Image by Hari K. Patibanda via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

New clues into how animals evolved an internal compass to navigate Earth

Nupur Fangaria 7 Aug 2026
A sloth bear in the Aravallis. Image by Utkarsh Prajapati.

Sloth bears are unlikely seed dispersers shaping forests

Sneha Mahale 6 Aug 2026
The first confirmed photographic evidence of the Eurasian lynx in Sikkim. Image courtesy of Forest & Environment Department, Sikkim, and WWF-India.

Rare lynx photo puts spotlight on high-altitude rangelands

Manish Chandra Mishra 4 Aug 2026

Scientists identify new deep-sea shark species from India’s southwest coast

Ananya Singh 4 Aug 2026