Barkhera, a modest wetland about 30 km from Jaipur near Shivdaspura, has long been a quiet favourite among birders, but this winter encroachment has become visible to the naked eye.
Twenty-four people, from Forest Department staff and local fishers to the Teesta Barrage gateman, received Gaja Mitra Awards in Siliguri on 7 October for helping rescue an elephant calf swept away by the Teesta River.
India’s first high-altitude wildlife safari has begun in Ladakh, with the Union Territory’s Lieutenant Governor flagging off six vehicles on Wednesday for trips built around snow leopards.
Himalayan monals at the busy tourist spot of Chopta call at a higher pitch than those in the quieter Madmaheshwar Valley, according to research from Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University that BBC News highlighted on Tuesday.
Aaranyak has published the account of a Class 9 student from Sivasagar district who took part in its elephant outreach between 2022 and 2025, a programme running in three villages around Panidehing.
Researchers at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology have produced the first detailed climate-based assessment of the ibisbill in the north-western Himalayas, finding that warming could widen the area with suitable climate for the bird while boulder mining eats away at its breeding rivers.
Three orphaned Asiatic black bear cubs left the Centre for Bear Rehabilitation and Conservation on 24 September for a pre-release site inside Pakke Tiger Reserve in Arunachal Pradesh, a 26-kilometre journey on foot and elephant back.
The Wildlife Trust of India says 35 wetlands across ten districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh were legally notified in April 2026, putting 1,243.8 hectares under statutory protection.
An Indian-born cheetah at Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh’s Sheopur district has given birth to five cubs, taking India’s cheetah count to 60 and starting a Botswana lineage in the population.
Polish wildlife photographer Hubert Mielnik camped out in a soaked hide, tucked his batteries into his underwear to keep them warm, and came away with the best photographs of his life.