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Nilgiri Pipit_Prasenjeet Yadav

Conserving high elevation shola-grasslands crucial for the endemic Nilgiri pipit

Aathira Perinchery 15 Sep 2020

Mapping human-elephant conflict hotspots from compensation records

Sahana Ghosh 21 Jul 2020

Linear infrastructure severely affects large forest patches in India, finds study

Neha Jain 30 Jun 2020

Controversy returns to Athirappilly as Kerala government reactivates the hydel project proposal

K.A. Shaji 16 Jun 2020

Conserving the Toda buffalo before it is too late

Catherine Gilon 26 May 2020

Natural, biodiverse forests more reliable at fighting climate change than plantations

Neha Jain 25 May 2020

Logging poses a threat to the arboreal Travancore flying squirrel

Visvajit Sriramrajan 12 May 2020

Karnataka government okays rail line in the Western Ghats

Kapil Kajal 6 May 2020

A new species of wood snake emerges in the Western Ghats, mottled in grey-brown

Aathira Perinchery 20 Apr 2020

Could tribal honey hunters help save the bees and improve our food security?

Catherine Gilon 23 Mar 2020

A new addition to the Walkerana genus

Mike Gaworecki 13 Mar 2020

A community rallies around hornbill habitat to aid conservation

K.A. Shaji 16 Dec 2019

New species remain hidden in the myristica swamps of the Western Ghats

Neha Jain 4 Nov 2019

Hills of peril: Southwest monsoon inflicts severe damage in the Nilgiris

K.A. Shaji 23 Oct 2019
Coonoor stream after it was cleaned up. Photo by Clean Coonoor.

Coonoor citizens and officials clean the streams and river in the hill town

Nina Varghese 2 Oct 2019

Elephants in the estate: Humans and elephants tussle for space in Kodagu

Arathi Menon 24 Sep 2019

What shola sky islands say about diseases in wild birds

T. V. Padma 12 Sep 2019

An agroforestry scientist’s notes on Kodagu, coffee and climate change

Nandita Jayaraj 4 Sep 2019

In the Western Ghats ridges it is ice that keeps the shola-grasslands intact

Bhanu Sridharan 28 Aug 2019

[Commentary] Is climate change the only reason for flooding in the Western Ghats?

Mrunmayee and D.V. Girish 27 Aug 2019