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An orangutan seized by YOSL-OIC in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Image by Panut Hadisiswoyo.

As exotic primates reach India, welfare concerns grow

Arathi Menon 18 Sep 2026

Climate change shaped primate populations in northeast India

Anusha Krishnan 23 Dec 2025
The brown forest bob (Scobura woolletti) was known in parts of Southeast Asia, and thought to be a rare sight in the Northeast. A 2010 study however revealed that the butterflies recorded in the Northeast was a different species, now named Scobura parawoolletti or Assam forest bob (seen in the photo). Image by Sarangapani Neog.

Sarangapani Neog on documenting butterflies in a sanctuary [Interview]

Barasha Das 12 Sep 2025

Unlocking the secrets of the grooving gibbons

Carolyn Cowan 26 Nov 2024
Western Hoolock gibbons. Photo by Udayan Borthakur/Aaranyak.

Saving India’s only ape, the hoolock gibbon

Ashvita Anand 21 Nov 2023

A bridge of trees reunites gibbons separated by a railway line in Assam

Anuraag Baruah 15 Oct 2021