Jaipur’s pink elephant and the internet storm that wouldn’t let it go.

India’s wild doesn’t follow a single calendar. Knowing when to go — and where — is the difference between a frustrating trip and a magnificent one.

From the forests of Arunachal Pradesh to the jetties of Goa, two recent stories from the Wildlife Trust of India speak to the breadth of what conservation work looks like on the ground.

A bonobo holds an imaginary tea party, chimpanzees are technically drinking, a 52-year-old elephant breaks out for breakfast, and cockroaches turn out to be surprisingly romantic.

Once reduced to a relic of their former numbers by a veterinary drug, India’s critically endangered vultures are finally edging back — but a landmark new survey reveals how far the recovery still has to go.