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.
A tiger that officials think crossed over from a neighbouring state has been photographed inside an Odisha sanctuary where the government already plans to bring in tigers from central India.
Raids in two states have led to six arrests and the seizure of around 300 pieces of a so-called lucky charm whose trade depends on mutilating protected monitor lizards.
Odisha has begun a seven-month fishing ban to protect the Olive Ridley turtles that arrive on its coast every winter, in a season when the mass nesting that normally defines its beaches failed to appear earlier this year.
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.