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.
Author: IWN
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.
India has no sloths at all, yet one of its best-known forest animals carries the name of one, thanks to a zoologist who guessed wrong more than two centuries ago.
Two blind fishes living in village wells in Assam have been described as new to science, offering a look at a groundwater world that pollution and over-pumping could erase before anyone has catalogued it.
The world’s first progress report on its 2030 promise to halt and reverse the loss of nature finds that fewer than half of the national targets assessed so far are on track.
Forest officials have vaccinated two female leopards against pregnancy and released them back into the wild, in a trial meant to ease conflict with people without killing or removing any animals.
Numbers of the Kashmir markhor, a wild goat of the north Kashmir mountains, have risen about 71 per cent since 2005, although the latest count adds only a handful of animals to the 2023 figure, which keeps the focus on grazing pressure in its habitat.