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Mohd Shahnawaz Khan releases a juvenile gharial in Murshidabad, West Bengal. Image courtesy of Mohd Shahnawaz Khan/WWF-India.

Experts divided over reintroducing captive-bred gharials in rivers

Rajeev Tyagi 4 Feb 2026
Young milk sharks caught by fishers at a wharf in Mangalore, Karnataka. Image by Karunakar Rayker via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Study explores social media as a tool to track shark and ray consumption

Divya Kilikar 3 Feb 2026
A catch of squaretail groupers (Plectropomus areolatus). Image by Rucha Karkarey.

A Lakshadweep island’s strategic value worries conservationists and fishers

Max Martin 27 Jan 2026
A shore seine net is hauled ashore at Valinokam, Tamil Nadu, while people gather along the beach to watch. Image by Vinod Kumar.

Traditional fishers turn rescuers in a win for declining marine wildlife [Commentary]

M. Fathima Hanna, Teresa Scholastica Thomas, I. Santhanamari, Vinod M. Kumar, Maria Antony P., M. Soubadra Devy 26 Jan 2026
Hemidactylus kalinga sp. nov. Image by Pratyush P. Mohapatra.

New-to-science gecko sheds light on Eastern Ghats’ biodiversity

Arathi Menon 22 Jan 2026
A marmalade hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus). Image by Thejavikho Gwizantsu Chase.

How hoverflies quietly sustain ecosystems [Commentary]

Amritha Jaiprekash Kurup 21 Jan 2026

Celebrating the life and work of Madhav Gadgil

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 13 Jan 2026
An adult female fishing spider. Image by Umesh Pavukandy.

Scientists describe a new fishing spider species

Rohini Karandikar 13 Jan 2026
Mahouts ready a captive elephant for safaris in Kaziranga National Park. Image by SeethaG via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Elephant’s death spotlights conditions in safari tourism

Nabarun Guha 13 Jan 2026
Himalayan brown bears are elusive, largely nocturnal and occur at very low densities, making direct sightings rare. Image by WII camera-trap.

Study identifies prime brown bear habitats beyond protected areas

Sneha Mahale 9 Jan 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
An Asiatic lion in Gir National Park. Image by Bernard Gagnon via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0),

Majority of Asiatic lions are found outside Gir protected areas

Simrin Sirur 7 Jan 2026
Mountain peaks in Pin Valley National Park, which is part of the recently recognised Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve in Himachal Pradesh. Image by Timothy Gonsalves via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Biosphere reserves are pockets of hope for a changing planet [Commentary]

Benno Böer, Neha Midha, Srishti Kumar 2 Jan 2026
Galaxy frogs in the Western Ghats. Image by K.P. Rajkumar/ZSL.

Photo tourism threatens rare galaxy frog population

Liz Kimbrough 2 Jan 2026
A train station in Assam. Experts say that elephant–train collisions are not new to people in the Kampur subdivision in Nagaon. In 2016, four elephants were mowed down by a train, close to the spot of the recent accident. Representative image by Himanshum14 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Jumbo deaths on tracks expose gaps in wildlife safety

Nabarun Guha 31 Dec 2025

New species from the deep oceans and high mountains

Team Mongabay-India 31 Dec 2025
Young gharials at the Gharial Rehabilitation Centre at Kukrail. Image by Azma Khan.

A proposed night safari threatens the ecosystem of an urban forest [Commentary]

Shravya Shruti 29 Dec 2025
Ana Sagar lake in Ajmer, Rajasthan, flanked by the Aravalli hills. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

With a new identity, the Aravalli hills stare at an uncertain future

Simrin Sirur 26 Dec 2025
Journalists Aishwarya Mohanty and Divya Vilvaraj on the set of Walking Against the Heat, a film produced as part of the Video Reporting Opportunity by All Living Things Environment Film Festival and Mongabay-India. Image courtesy of Aishwarya Mohanty and Divya Vilvaraj.

Taking environmental storytelling beyond the screen in 2025

Sandhya Sekar 26 Dec 2025
A woman carries water collected from a public tap during the summer on the outskirts of Jammu. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)

Climate action cooled as heat surged in 2025 [Editor’s Review]

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 25 Dec 2025