A leopard deity worshipped in hilltop shrines may help explain how people in Mumbai live alongside one of the world’s densest populations of wild leopards.
India has published guidelines for recognising conservation that happens outside its national parks and sanctuaries, a category the global goal to protect 30 per cent of land and sea by 2030 counts alongside formal protected areas.
More than 25,000 mature teak trees have died in the forests of Madhya Pradesh’s Betul district over about three years, and forest officials suspect drought and heat stress.
A forest sanctuary in eastern Rajasthan is turning out to hold tigers with cubs alongside nearly 30 identified leopards, a combination that conservationists say makes it a key site for helping the state’s tigers recover.
Twenty-five young people from a forested stretch of north-eastern India have been trained as nature guides, a job that conservationists hope will give local communities a stake in protecting one of the country’s rarest ducks.
A young cheetah has died of gunshot wounds in India’s Madhya Pradesh state, raising questions about how an animal that officials say is tracked around the clock came to be shot.
Thousands of small falcons stop in north-east India every autumn to feast on termite swarms before flying across the Arabian Sea to Africa, which ties the survival of a migration spanning two continents to the villages and forests where they refuel.
Villages in north-eastern India are spending six days on the football pitch to persuade young people that the pangolin, one of the most heavily trafficked mammals on earth, is worth protecting.
Maharashtra has widened the legal protection around its forests in a single board meeting, upgrading two areas to wildlife sanctuaries and approving 14 more as conservation reserves across seven districts.
A cheetah that killed a calf in a village on the edge of India’s only wild cheetah population was beaten by residents and left seriously wounded, according to an activist’s account that has not been confirmed.