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Study finds physical barriers restricting blue sheep gene flow

Arathi Menon 20 Dec 2023

No magic bullets to deal with snakebites

Arathi Menon 22 Nov 2023

[Book review] Women biologists take centre stage saving forests and wildlife

Usha Rai 20 Nov 2023

Mistaken identity becomes a major threat for India’s small wild cats

Shailesh Shrivastava 15 Nov 2023
A lynx in a sea buckthorn shrub. Chamba spotted the Eurasian lynx on eight different occasions and captured several photographs. Photo by Stanzin Chamba.

A citizen-led initiative contributes to wildlife conservation in Ladakh

Manish Chandra Mishra 14 Nov 2023
A free-ranging dog on the hunt, capturing a pika. Photo by Neeraj Mahar

Ladakh’s small cats face resource competition, intimidation by free-ranging dogs

Shailesh Shrivastava 13 Nov 2023

[Interview] Wildlife biologist Sumit Dookia on researching the understudied Asiatic wildcat

Shuchita Jha 9 Nov 2023
A common wood pigeon.

Researchers in Nepal still puzzled over the super flock of pigeons last winter

Abhaya Raj Joshi 1 Nov 2023
A sub-adult Bengal tiger on the river bank in Sundarban Tiger Reserve in India.

Bangladesh’s tiger conservation efforts win with rise in population in the Sundarbans

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 25 Oct 2023

Leopard cats may not respond well to global warming 

Arathi Menon 24 Oct 2023
A camera-trap image of a clouded leopard in Manas National Park. Clouded leopards are a largely arboreal, shy animals considered the "smallest big cat" in the world. Photo by Urijit Bhatt.

Clouded leopards develop ways to survive competition

Arathi Menon 19 Oct 2023
A snow leopard photographed at Himalayan Zoological Park Bulbuley near Gangtok. Photo by Nanda Ramesh/ Wikimedia Commons

Study finds climate change causing snow leopards to scale altitudes

Arathi Menon 12 Oct 2023
Pallas's cat captured by a camera trap. Photo by Forest, Ecology & Environment Department, Ladakh

Pallas’s cat’s sightings become more common in Ladakh

Manish Chandra Mishra 9 Oct 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

[Commentary] India needs a scientific response to mitigate the population of free-ranging dogs

Sutirtha Lahiri 3 Oct 2023
Asiatic Wildcat with its kitten in the desert of Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. Photo by Rasdheshyam Bishnoi.

Hybridisation, roadkills are major threats for the Indian desert cat population

Shuchita Jha 28 Sep 2023
Tiger T101 with the leopard kill in Ranthambore National Park, Rajasthan. Photo by Harsha Narasimhamurthy

How animals negotiate shared resources in the wild

Arathi Menon 23 Aug 2023
A male gharial with its distinctive ‘ghara.’

The endangered gharial’s conservation crisis highlighted after death of a male in Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 21 Aug 2023
Photo shows tiger cubs

Improved tiger numbers come with hidden messages on invasives, habitat connectivity

Simrin Sirur 4 Aug 2023
A leopard cat seen by the Kinabatangan River in Myanmar. The unmanned border areas along the Myanmar border and thick forest cover along the river Tiau, which divides Mizoram and Myanmar, have likely contributed to ease of access, trade, and a general increase in poaching in this part of India. Photo by Mike Prince/Wikimedia Commons.

The silent trade of elusive small cats in Mizoram

Nabarun Guha 3 Aug 2023