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.
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.