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.
A district in Manipur has banned the hunting of Amur falcons as the migratory birds pass through, and has told residents to hand in their airguns.
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.