Canadian Booker-prize winning author Margaret Atwood had once said that “Gardening is not a rational act” because as one immerses into the garden ecosystem, layers of life forms that work…
A 60 percent rise in India’s leopard population has been recorded in 2018, compared to 2014, but there is one area in the country, the northeastern landscape, where its population…
Protected areas in India's Western Ghats prominently feature as top destinations for tiger and elephant ecotourism and in conservation action. But the biodiverse-rich region traversing India's southern and western states…
Satellite imageries of land use and land cover patterns in the corridor complexes around Kaziranga National Park (KNP), a World Heritage Site in Assam, show fragmentation of forests is forcing…
In February this year, an attempt to kill a critically endangered Chinese pangolin in Tamenglong district of Manipur in northeast India, left the animal injured. The injured pangolin was rescued…
While Kerala's contentious Athirapilly dam may be temporarily on hold due to peoples' resistance, a smaller 7.5 megawatt hydropower project in the vicinity has got both environmentalists and indigenous communities…
Coral reefs feature prominently in today's climate change discourse. Studies have shown how warming oceans worldwide cause corals to bleach: they lose the algae that give them their colours, become…
"When there was a famine in the area, people headed to Sendenyu to obtain grains," Gwasinlo Thong recounts an old saying of the Rengma people. This indigenous community inhabits Nagaland's…
Underlying cultural and religious beliefs in serpent deities has played a role in protecting iconic animals such as snakes and other species dwelling inside the Western Ghats’ sacred groves. But…
When she was a young girl, Sarojini Goyal of the Korba district of Chhattisgarh would often accompany her parents to the nearby forest to collect shoots, leaves, flowers, and fruits…
As the Teesta gurgles down its way from its snow-fed origin in North Sikkim (5200 metres) to the plains in the south (300 metres), the river and its swiftly flowing…
Parulben Pawar has to walk through the forest of Dharampur, in Gujarat, to reach her bee boxes. A path of four kilometers crossing a forest of teak (Tectona grandis), tamarind…
Scientists have found close genetic relationships between populations of the golden mahseer, an iconic freshwater fish in Indian rivers Bhagirathi and Ganga, while significant genetic differentiation was observed between Alaknanda…
In 2019, budding ethnobotanist Momang Taram and her friend Ojar Taku were scouting the Siang river valley in Arunachal Pradesh for flowering plants belonging to a specific family. “Then suddenly…
When it comes to taking crucial decisions, J. Innocent Divya, an administrative officer of the mountainous Nilgiris district in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, goes by the mantra…
“I have been working in this area for 14 years as a snake rescuer. I never received calls for pangolins the way I received them in the last five months…
The Sundarbans mangrove ecosystem in India is evaluated as ‘endangered’ by a global team of researchers using the IUCN's Red List of Ecosystems framework. The clearing of mangroves dating back…
Water pipes hugging a building, hostel dorms, intersections of cedar forest and scrub-covered hills, edges of an oak forest in a village, and open streams. The maiden systematic survey of…
A 15-year-old female elephant was found lying sick four kilometers inside the forests in Boluvampatti range in the Coimbatore forest division in Tamil Nadu on August 8. It's tough skin…
Bera in the Pali district of Rajasthan is often nicknamed ‘Leopard Country’. Widely regarded as being home to one of the highest densities of leopards found anywhere, the otherwise shy…