Young gharials appear to take their cue to start basking each morning from the light in the sky, a finding that raises questions about what artificial light along riverbanks does to a species with a recovery score of just 19 per cent.
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Sloth bears, which live mostly on ants, termites and fruit, appear to have been digging snakes out of the forest floor, in what may be the first record of the species hunting that prey.
Wildlife SOS says its co-founder and CEO Kartick Satyanarayan has now spent roughly 34 hours under questioning by […]
A hyena has been sighted in Uttarakhand’s Corbett Tiger Reserve for the first time in recent years, an animal that had been feared lost from the reserve altogether.
The first scientific survey of snow leopards in Jammu and Kashmir has found at least 21 adults, giving conservationists a count to monitor the cat against in future.
A cheetah cub has died in Madhya Pradesh, the seventh cheetah death in India this year, and a request for the post-mortem reports on every cheetah lost since the reintroduction began has just been turned down on grounds of national security.
An ancient shadow-puppet tradition that usually retells the epics has been handed a fish as its hero, in an effort to get schoolchildren thinking about how to protect the largest fish on Earth.
Ganges river dolphins in a tidal West Bengal river are detected at noticeably different rates depending on the hour and the height of the tide, and researchers say that should change how the species is counted.
Seed companies that profit from India’s crop varieties have paid ₹2.02 crore towards protecting the biodiversity those varieties came from, and the money is now reaching state-level bodies that can spend it on conservation in local communities.
Wild animal populations monitored around the world have shrunk by an average of 73 per cent since 1970, and a new global assessment says tigers are among the few species showing that the slide can be reversed.