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.

India is counting its tigers again — but even as field surveyors fan out across 58 reserves for the sixth All India Tiger Estimation, the numbers coming in from another source are harder to celebrate.

Later this year, New Delhi will host an event that has never happened before: a global summit devoted entirely to the conservation of the world’s big cats, with heads of state from 95 countries expected to attend.

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Across India, farmers are losing Rs 10,000–40,000 crore a year to wildlife raids. Also: India’s tigers are thriving — but the 2026 State of India’s Environment report warns that success is generating its own dangers.

Maharashtra is in the grip of a leopard crisis of its own making — one born not from failure, but from success. Twenty-five big cats have already been transferred to Vantara. Conservationists are alarmed.