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[Photos] New book presents the rich biodiversity of Thar desert and threats to the landscape

Madhav Sharma 6 Apr 2021

Odisha plans to satellite-tag pangolins to study them better

Manish Kumar 6 Apr 2021
Women in a rice field in India (Tamil Nadu). Achievements of global goals on health, water, sanitation and matters of gender equality and their anticipated impacts on forests remain poorly researched. Photo by Deepak Kumar/Unsplash.

Study finds some UN SDGs could damage forests, some others may be beneficial

Sahana Ghosh 31 Mar 2021
Otters in a bird sanctuary at Uppalapadu near Guntur in Andhra Pradesh. Photo by Ch.Vijay Bhaskar.

Otter sighting in Andhra bird sanctuary raises excitement but also questions

M. Somasekhar 24 Mar 2021

Radio telemetry signals new ways to study snakes

Arathi Menon 15 Mar 2021
Indian Porcupine in the Haryana Aravallis. Photo by Sunil Harsana.

Delhi and Haryana’s Aravallis support rich biodiversity and need protection

Neha Jain 11 Mar 2021

Genomics offer clues to how forest trees responded to the last Ice Age

Sahana Ghosh 5 Mar 2021

Land use changes are driving Himalayan forest bird loss

T. V. Padma 1 Mar 2021

Beasts that once roamed the Indian subcontinent could hold clues to evolution and extinction

Sahana Ghosh 24 Feb 2021

Grassland burning, clearing imperils birds of Brahmaputra’s river islands

Chandrani Sinha 22 Feb 2021
Lashar in Lachen valley, Sikkim. Photo by Tenzing Ingty.

Livestock grazing in eastern Himalayan pastures enhances biodiversity and productivity: Study

Neha Jain 19 Feb 2021

Odisha forest officer gets UN Award for environment enforcement, gender leadership

Sahana Ghosh 18 Feb 2021

[Commentary] Conserving orchids through community participation in a Manipur village

Ng Ngashangva 18 Feb 2021

Perils of the Phayre’s leaf monkey

Shatabdi Chakrabarti 8 Feb 2021
First time since it was built 20 years ago, work for de-silting was started in 2020 at the Pushkar Sarovar lake formed by the second of the first five barriers restricting the ecological flow of Narmada. The infant river is no more than a thin stream. The district administration carried out repair work for the barrage structure as a result of which the pond was empty for most of the time post monsoon and showcased silt deposits mixed with municipal solid waste. Photo by Nivedita Khandekar.

Ecological degradation at Narmada’s origin in Amarkantak spells more trouble

Nivedita Khandekar 3 Feb 2021

The missing chapter in wildlife rescue: crowd control

Sahana Ghosh, Kartik Chandramouli 29 Jan 2021
A blackbuck takes a jump on the open land of Bhetnoi in Ganjam. Photo by Rakesh Roul.

A cluster of villages conserve shy blackbucks in Odisha’s Ganjam

Manish Kumar 26 Jan 2021
Baya weaver with nest male and female birds. Photo by Fareedz/Wikimedia Commons.

Precarious lives of the wild inside home gardens in northeast India

Rini Barman, Sahana Ghosh 25 Jan 2021

Saving the last remaining grassland habitat in Bengaluru region

Arathi Menon 6 Jan 2021
Leopard in BR_Hills

India records increase in leopard population but real number could be much more

Manish Chandra Mishra, Mayank Aggarwal 30 Dec 2020