Forest officials in Telangana have opened a wildlife-law case after a caged state bird was shown to a festival crowd and then released, in a Dussehra custom that activists say breaks wildlife law.
Young gibbons are being flown towards India in pet carriers and plastic baskets, and a new analysis finds that Indian airports accounted for most of the seizures when the trade peaked last year.
Migratory freshwater fish have declined by 81 per cent worldwide since the 1970s, and a commentary from India’s Himalayan headwaters argues that dams and village rules there will decide whether the survivors still have a river to travel.
Saket Badola, field director of Corbett Tiger Reserve, has announced he is retiring voluntarily from the Indian Forest Service at mid-career, citing personal grounds.
Fires in India’s protected forests are heading in opposite directions depending on the landscape, with burned area climbing in some reserves and shrinking in others, and each trend is changing what grows back.
A spiny seahorse that scientists long treated as a single widespread species has turned out to be three, including one new to science in the Indian Ocean, which means the conservation status of the original species will need another look.
India is working through a formal extinction-risk check of every bird that turns up in the country year after year, a process that should show which species are slipping towards trouble before they become rarities.
Arignar Anna Zoological Park in Vandalur, Chennai, will turn visitors away on 22 and 23 October 2026 while it carries out sanitation and safety measures following reports of H5N1 bird flu, the zoo has said.
A six-month-old captive-bred Great Indian Bustard released in Desert National Park has been killed by a desert fox, a media report says, the first loss since the programme began releasing birds on 4 October.
Fishing boats on the Tamil Nadu coast are landing fewer adult devil rays than they did in the early 2010s, which matters because these animals produce roughly one pup every two to three years.