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A sloth bear mother and cub. Caves on rocky hillocks provide hidden shelters that offer shade, safety and a place for mothers to raise cubs. Image by L. Shyamal via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Sloth bears den between a rock and a safe place

Sneha Mahale 25 Mar 2026
A white-bellied sea eagle nesting on an electric pylon along Odisha’s coast. Such pylons expose raptors to several risks, including nest removal by maintenance crew and possible electrocution. Image by Sakti Prasad Pattnayak.

Artificial nesting structures may act as ecological traps for white-bellied sea eagles

Ananya Singh 16 Feb 2026
A western marsh harrier near Nal Sarovar Lake in Gujarat. Image by Hari K Patibanda via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Migrant harriers emerge as unlikely gardeners of grasslands

Nikhil Sreekandan 13 Feb 2026
One of the nine camera traps (seven of which were placed on the advise of Adi community members) yielded this image of a Chinese pangolin digging a burrow. Image by Chiging Pilia/NCF.

Indigenous knowledge to track and save the Chinese pangolin

Nikhil Sreekandan 17 Dec 2025

Global seabird records guide us where to look next

Kartik Chandramouli 16 Oct 2025
Women from Kibber village set up a camera trap on a steep slope in Spiti Valley during the state-wide snow leopard survey. Image courtesy of the Nature Conservation Foundation and Himachal Pradesh Forest Department.

In the high Himalayas, women and communities build a shared future for the snow leopard

Manish Chandra Mishra 15 Oct 2025
The team aims to expand the Wildlife Watchers programme beyond Pune to other districts and habitats. Image courtesy of The Grasslands Trust.

Local and vocal, community watch bridges the gap between research and wildlife [Commentary]

Mihir Godbole, Prerana Sethiya 25 Jul 2025
A dhole in Kabini. Image by Ranjith Kumar 2016 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The return of the dholes

Nabarun Guha 21 Jul 2025
A camera trap image of a snow leopard marking a rock with its scent. Image by Pankaj Raina et al.

Snow leopard survey finds the elusive cat thriving

Sneha Mahale 3 Jul 2025
Flying squirrels take off from trees and glide down a slope by extending a membrane called the patagium connecting their front and hind limbs. Image by Pavel Kirillov via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Flying squirrel habitats predicted to tailspin under climate change

Bharti Dharapuram 11 Jun 2025
A green warbler (Phylloscopus nitidus) photographed in Chorokhi Delta, Georgia. Image by Wouter van der Ham via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).

Decoding the lives of tiny birds in a changing world

Kartik Chandramouli 15 May 2025
Bat biologist Kadambari Deshpande and technologist Vedant Barje with the BatEchoMon system installed by them. Image by Vivek Hasyagar.

Automating bat detection for more efficient monitoring and data collection

Aisiri Amin 2 Apr 2025

India gears to use eDNA to identify, track wildlife

Sanjeev Kumar 22 Dec 2023