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Forest team patrolling with the help of captive elephants in Madhya Pradesh. Photo by Satyendra Kumar Tiwari

Spirits are low this mahua season as fear and grief take over these MP villages

Manish Chandra Mishra 26 Apr 2022
Shandongs, traditional trapping pits, near herder camps were neutralised by removing a few stones to let the trapped wolves escape, and building a stupa near it. Photo by Karma Sonam.

From shandong to stupa: the story of conservation of wolves in Ladakh

Nabarun Guha 25 Mar 2022
A view of Deepor Beel Wildlife Sanctuary. Photo by Sanskrita Bharadwaj.

Saving elephants from train hits near Deepor beel in Assam

Sanskrita Bharadwaj 17 Mar 2022
A baby elephant in Lataguri Forest, West Bengal

[Book Review] An ecologist’s ode to his field assistant, elephants and Buxa

Renuka Kulkarni 16 Feb 2022
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
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
Camp elephants carrying forest staff in tourism zone of Kanha Tiger Reserve. Photo by T. R. Shankar Raman/Wikimedia commons 

The absence of captive elephants in Madhya Pradesh is impacting tiger conservation

Manish Chandra Mishra 28 Sep 2021
Indian elephant bull in musth in Bandipur National Park. Image by Yathin S Krishnappa/Wikimedia Commons

Excess paddy kept for elephants in Chhattisgarh may not have the intended impact

Alok Prakash Putul 22 Sep 2021

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

Nabarun Guha 17 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

Incentivising landowners around Pench to engage in agroforestry for conservation

Priyanka Shankar 2 Aug 2021
Wild buffalos, Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India. Photo by Gregoire Dubois/Flickr

Wild buffalo, Chhattisgarh’s state animal, is on the verge of extinction

Alok Prakash Putul 17 Jun 2021

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

Madhav Sharma 6 Apr 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

The woman who breaks stereotypes while rescuing wildlife in Kashmir

Athar Parvaiz 3 Mar 2021

The missing chapter in wildlife rescue: crowd control

Sahana Ghosh and Kartik Chandramouli 29 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

Life and struggles of the sloth bear in human-dominated areas

Aathira Perinchery 27 Nov 2020

Elephants in north Bengal more likely to raid crops near fragmented forested patches

Ashvita Anand 18 Aug 2020