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Government eyes recognising non-protected conservation areas to meet biodiversity goals

Simrin Sirur 6 Jan 2025
Mahouts and their elephants at Kaziranga National Park. Image by SeethaG via Wikimedia Commons [CC BY-SA 4.0].

The courage and legacy of mahouts in Kaziranga

Nabarun Guha 7 Oct 2024

More wild water buffaloes in central India to fix population decline and ecological degradation

Arathi Menon 9 Feb 2024

[Interview] Former forest officer Rajiv Bhartari on zoning in Corbett Tiger Reserve and its impacts

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Oct 2023

Including indigenous perspectives for equitable forest management

Arathi Menon 27 Oct 2023

Megaherbivores could be a potential solution to manage invasive plants, finds study

Simrin Sirur 25 Sep 2023
A male cheetah introduced in Kuno National Park. Photo from Cheetah Conservation Fund.

Cheetahs introduced in Kuno National Park struggle with humidity and weather conditions

Shuchita Jha 24 Aug 2023
A female cheetah from Namibia. As part of Project Cheetah, aimed at reintroducing cheetahs in India, 20 cheetahs were brought from Namibia and South Africa. Image- CCF

Questions arise about Project Cheetah as three cheetahs die in 45 days

Manish Chandra Mishra 17 May 2023

[Commentary] Mobilising resources for biodiversity conservation in the far eastern Himalayas

Kripa Shrestha 21 Sep 2022
Community members of Chug CCA discuss on the issues of human-animal negative interactions. Photo by Manisha Kumari.

[Commentary] Solar fencing to combat human-animal negative interaction in Arunachal

Manisha Kumari 23 Aug 2022

Poachers saw off horn, but leave rhino alive in a unique case in Assam

Nabarun Guha and Sahana Ghosh 3 Jun 2022
The Suraha Tal Lake is the largest floodplain lake in the Ballia district. Jananayak Chandrashekhar University is situated within the Jai Prakash Narayan (Suraha Tal) Bird Sanctuary. Photo- Ballia district administration

A bird sanctuary’s survival is being threatened in Uttar Pradesh

Mayank Aggarwal 20 May 2022
Jim Corbett National Park. Sekhsaria speaks up for wildlife not just inside PAs, but for the wildlife outside PAs. He talks about involving people living inside PAs in their management, and on sensitising people outside PAs. Photo by Shashwat Jha/ Wikimedia Commons.

[Book review] A rough draft of conservation history

T R Shankar Raman 19 Apr 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

Return of the tiger at West Bengal’s Buxa tiger reserve

Nabarun Guha 13 Jan 2022

In Arunachal’s Sessa Orchid Sanctuary communities collaborate with forest officials to conserve orchids

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya, Jyotirmoy Saharia 22 Dec 2021
Agriculture is one of the major sources of livelihood for the farmers of Saratchandrapur village in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district. Photo by Tazeen Qureshy.

Tackling agrobiodiversity loss in Odisha’s Similipal protected area

Tazeen Qureshy 6 Dec 2021

The birth of Raimona, Assam’s sixth national park

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya, Jyotirmoy Saharia 18 Nov 2021

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

Nabarun Guha 17 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