On Friday, the National Tiger Conservation Authority and the Wildlife Institute of India opened the sixth cycle of a report card they’ve kept on India’s tiger reserves since 2006, and for the first time, reserves will be marked on how they handle their own rubbish.
Bhupender Yadav
India announced the launch of Project Rhino on Tuesday, a new scheme of central funding and technical support for the states that shelter India’s greater one-horned rhinos, arriving as Assam — home to roughly four-fifths of the world’s population — closed out 2025 with zero confirmed poaching deaths.
Gaurav, one of the eight Namibian cheetahs that founded India’s cheetah reintroduction programme in 2022, died at Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh on Monday, four days after an India-born cheetah at the same reserve gave birth to a second litter, having lost her first four cubs to suspected predation in May.
A second villager injured in an August jackal attack in Jharkhand’s Bokaro district has died, 36 days after the bite and despite receiving anti-rabies vaccination, leaving ten other injured villagers demanding a fresh medical review before anyone else falls ill.
Gujarat has restored 27,652 hectares of mangrove cover since 2023, edging closer to a 29,250-hectare target set for 2027, according to figures the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change presented this week.
Union Minister Bhupender Yadav travelled to Kachchh, Gujarat this week to launch a fresh rescue effort for one of India’s rarest birds.
India’s tiger reserves have a new financial backer: the Asian Development Bank.
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.
India has published its first dedicated guide to the grasslands, deserts, ravines and scrublands that government paperwork has spent decades filing under “wasteland.”
Arunachal Pradesh has never had a Ramsar site. It has one now.