Twenty-five young people from a forested stretch of north-eastern India have been trained as nature guides, a job that conservationists hope will give local communities a stake in protecting one of the country’s rarest ducks.
Assam
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.
Nearly every form of the goddess worshipped through Navratri comes with an animal, from lions and a tiger to a bull and a donkey, and several of those animals still live in India’s forests, wetlands and deserts.
Wildlife SOS says its co-founder and CEO Kartick Satyanarayan has now spent roughly 34 hours under questioning by […]
The Wildlife Conservation Trust has retold how two British artists sketched a wild male rhinoceros at Kotdwar on 20 April 1789, evidence that the Great Indian Rhinoceros once lived in what is now Uttarakhand.
Aaranyak has published the account of a Class 9 student from Sivasagar district who took part in its elephant outreach between 2022 and 2025, a programme running in three villages around Panidehing.
Almost every temple elephant carries a spray of pale freckles on its trunk and ears. The patches are natural depigmentation, seen in wild herds too, and the myths we attach to elephants say a great deal about how we treat them.
Twenty-seven mahouts and ghasis from Manas National Park have finished a week of training in elephant biology, health and handling, and the reserve’s field director used the opening to call again for a dedicated mahout school in Assam.
Several of India’s best-known tiger reserves reopen their core zones on 1 October after the monsoon. Expect tall grass, full waterholes and a greener forest, and don’t count on a wave of new cubs just because the rains are over.
The last four of five young elephants sent from Assam to temples in Tamil Nadu this month reached their new homes late last week, completing a transfer the Gauhati High Court declined to stop but has asked Assam to account for, in a detailed affidavit on the animals’ welfare, before it hears the case again on 15 October.