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An orangutan with offspring in Betung Kerihun National Park, Indonesia. Representative image by Sabar Minsyah via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

CITES withdraws recommendation to suspend trade of endangered species to India

Simrin Sirur 25 Nov 2025
The recent deaths of a female tiger and her four cubs in the Malai Mahadeshwara Wildlife Sanctuary comes as a blow to tiger conservation. It reveals lapses in forest protection, unchecked livestock grazing, and brewing human-animal conflict in the landscape. Representative image of tiger cubs by Gurdeep Singh via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Tiger deaths reveal conservation challenges

Bharti Dharapuram 15 Jul 2025
Small-scale gillnet fishers in Goa. Image by Trisha Gupta.

Understanding India’s shark supply chains to make them sustainable

Neha Jain 3 Mar 2025
captive civets seized

Thousands of live animals seized in global wildlife trafficking crackdown

Mongabay.com 17 Feb 2025

Intercepting the illegal capture of migratory birds in south-central West Bengal

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya 2 Nov 2023