India’s wild doesn’t follow a single calendar. Knowing when to go — and where — is the difference between a frustrating trip and a magnificent one.
From the forests of Arunachal Pradesh to the jetties of Goa, two recent stories from the Wildlife Trust of India speak to the breadth of what conservation work looks like on the ground.
A bonobo holds an imaginary tea party, chimpanzees are technically drinking, a 52-year-old elephant breaks out for breakfast, and cockroaches turn out to be surprisingly romantic.
Once reduced to a relic of their former numbers by a veterinary drug, India’s critically endangered vultures are finally edging back — but a landmark new survey reveals how far the recovery still has to go.
India’s tiger conservation success story is entering a more difficult chapter — and a damning new environment report reveals just how much pressure the system is under.
India is counting its tigers again — but even as field surveyors fan out across 58 reserves for the sixth All India Tiger Estimation, the numbers coming in from another source are harder to celebrate.
If you go slowly through the jungle, the jungle will reveal itself to you. — Jim Corbett
Later this year, New Delhi will host an event that has never happened before: a global summit devoted entirely to the conservation of the world’s big cats, with heads of state from 95 countries expected to attend.
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