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The Himalayan monal is illegally trafficked from the Himalayas. Photo by Koshy Koshy/Wikimedia Commons.

Using citizen science to track illegal wildlife trade in the Himalayas

T. V. Padma 21 Jan 2022
Zamil Ahmed dresses in a black fur costume in absence of bear. Photo by Madhav Sharma

Two sides of the wildlife law: Animals protected but Kalandar tribe trying to make ends meet

Madhav Sharma 17 Jan 2022
Sea snakes caught as bycatch. Photo by Chetan Rao.

Sea snakes along Konkan coast imperilled by bycatch, lack of enforcement of fishery regulations

Rupsy Khurana 14 Jan 2022

Return of the tiger at West Bengal’s Buxa tiger reserve

Nabarun Guha 13 Jan 2022

Artificial nests for barn owls help farmers befriend these natural rodent killers

Kasturi Das 7 Jan 2022

Forests of faith face encroachments and invasive species in Punjab

Jaskaran Singh and Sahana Ghosh 17 Dec 2021
Cormorant from Kole WetLands ,Thrissur, Kerala. Photo by Manoj K/Wikimedia Commons.

Solving multiple challenges while considering biodiversity and human rights

Sahana Ghosh 13 Dec 2021
Forest staff before search operation to track tigers begin. Photo by Saurabh Katkurwar.

Tigers return to Gadchiroli forests after 30 years, human-animal conflict spikes

Saurabh Katkurwar 27 Oct 2021

[Commentary] Balancing trade-offs between biodiversity conservation and livelihoods

Joli Rumi Borah and James Reed 21 Oct 2021
A Waghoba worshipper at Film City in Goregaon, Mumbai. Photo by Ramya Nair/Project Waghoba.

Worshipping Waghoba: Faith meets conservation in Maharashtra where humans and leopards share space

Aathira Perinchery 4 Oct 2021
Psedomelanistic tigers develop broader than average black stripes that look like they have spread or leaked onto the surrounding tawny background. All the black tigers of Similipal carry a single mutation in the gene Transmembrane Aminopeptidase Q (Taqpep) which seems to be the cause of this odd patterning. Photo by Rajesh Kumar Mohapatra/Nandankanan Biological Park.

Why tiger conservation efforts need genetic data

Anusha Krishnan 1 Oct 2021

Assam to destroy nearly 2500 seized rhino horns in anti-poaching message

Nabarun Guha 17 Sep 2021
Road construction in progress in tea plantations in Annamalai hills, southern Western Ghats. Photo by P. Jeganathan/Wikimedia Commons.

Lower species richness in deforested landscapes tied to high Kyasanur forest disease risk: study

Sahana Ghosh 10 Sep 2021
Bonnet macaque at Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Sanctuary, Karnataka, India. Photo by Ullasa Kodandaramaiah/Wikimedia Commons.

Quick solutions for human-monkey conflicts could lead to dangerous results

Mohit M. Rao 7 Sep 2021
Dhriti Banerjee, a forensic entomologist, on the field. Photo from ZSI.

[Interview] The glass ceiling has been shattered, says ZSI’s first woman director

Sahana Ghosh 3 Sep 2021

Blue whale songs recorded off Lakshadweep coast

Sahana Ghosh 20 Aug 2021

All three tiger reserves of Chhattisgarh now in Maoist territory

Alok Prakash Putul 17 Aug 2021

Uncertain future for elephants of northern Andhra Pradesh

Almaas Masood 6 Aug 2021

Impact of armed conflicts on wildlife underestimated: study

Sahana Ghosh 28 Jul 2021

Neglect shrouds Behali Reserve Forest’s biodiversity along Assam-Arunachal border

Nabarun Guha 23 Jul 2021