India’s environment minister used a visit to a Haryana vulture breeding centre this week to make a national case for more Vulture Safe Zones.
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Hotels and safari operators around Jawai can no longer sell a stay on the promise of a leopard sighting.
A crocodile that wandered into a labourers’ camp on the outskirts of Tiruchi has been caught and released back into the wild by the Tamil Nadu Forest Department and Tamil Nadu Fire and Rescue Services.
Scientists have named a newly discovered frog species from Tripura’s Jampui Hills after Padmini Varkey, a Kerala woman known to generations of Thiruvananthapuram students and activists simply as Ammachi.
Four of Asia’s hornbill species have a genome to call their own for the first time.
A domesticated elephant in Assam whose tusks were sawed off by poachers in April has finally undergone the surgery his injuries required.
Wolves in Jharkhand’s Mahuadanr Wolf Sanctuary keep a surprisingly tight attack schedule.
The Guwahati-based conservation group Aaranyak has weighed in on the fight over how large a protective buffer should surround Kaziranga National Park, as Assam moves to shrink the zone from its current 10 kilometres down to as little as one.
A tiger has killed a second person within a fortnight near Gudalur, in Tamil Nadu’s Nilgiris district, and the state forest department has put three thermal drones, six cages and around fifty camera traps into the search for it.
India has published its first dedicated guide to the grasslands, deserts, ravines and scrublands that government paperwork has spent decades filing under “wasteland.”