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Morus alba or white mulberry plant. Photo by Lazaregagnidze/Wikimedia Commons.

Asia’s first mulberry fossil unearthed in Rajasthan’s lignite mines

T. V. Padma 9 Dec 2021
Forest man of India' Jadav Payeng in his Molai Kathoni forest. Photo by Anudip Gogoi.

Planted forests can tackle flood and erosion impacts along the Brahmaputra

Nabarun Guha 29 Nov 2021

Two decades of a city lake conservation shows results but work remains

Shuchita Jha 19 Nov 2021
Remnant forests in large tea monocultures in Darjeeling, Eastern Himalayas. Photo by Annesha Chowdhury.

Tea plantations support biodiversity when managed agroecologically

Roopak Goswami 1 Nov 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, James Reed 21 Oct 2021
Forest fires. Photo by by Anoushka Trivedi/ Wikimedia Commons

India’s draft on REDD+ safeguards needs a relook

Sahana Ghosh 15 Oct 2021

[Commentary] Mapping the potential of Community Forest Resource Rights in central India

Sharachchandra Lele, Shruti Mokashi 11 Oct 2021

When conservation efforts collide with tribal rights in Maharashtra

Prachi Pinglay-Plumber 6 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
Theophilus Khojol gets ready to harvest pineapples in his agroforestry land in Assam. Photo by Animekh Hazarika.

Sweet pineapples and a variety of trees nurture each other in this patchwork plantation

Sahana Ghosh 23 Sep 2021

Yes, No or Maybe: Fate of Hasdeo Arand forest back in limbo

Mayank Aggarwal 23 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
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
A plantation of Eucalyptus sp. in a protected area in Kerala, India. Photo by Anand Osuri/Wikimedia Commons.

Soil in Kerala’s monoculture plantations less healthy, productive than natural forests: study

Arathi Menon 2 Sep 2021
Croton gibsonianus male flowers. Photo by Maniruddin Dhabak.

Maharashtra’s first endemic tree rediscovered after 180 years at Harishchandragad hill

Vinaya Kurtkoti 31 Aug 2021

Kerala’s homegardens are a natural solution for climate change mitigation

Arathi Menon 27 Aug 2021

To escape floodwaters, Kaziranga’s large herbivores risk moving through human-dominated spaces: study

Sahana Ghosh 27 Aug 2021
Teak plantations in Kerala. Photo by Anand.osuri/Wikimedia Commons.

Compensatory afforestation unlikely to make up for the loss of carbon stocks

Supriya Vohra 23 Aug 2021

All three tiger reserves of Chhattisgarh now in Maoist territory

Alok Prakash Putul 17 Aug 2021