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.
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Forest officials in Telangana have opened a wildlife-law case after a caged state bird was shown to a festival crowd and then released, in a Dussehra custom that activists say breaks wildlife law.
India is working through a formal extinction-risk check of every bird that turns up in the country year after year, a process that should show which species are slipping towards trouble before they become rarities.
A man-made reservoir built 68 years ago for the residents of a planned city has been recognised as a wetland of international importance, even though silt has taken more than half of its water-holding capacity.
Birdwatchers, farmers and forest staff across India are being asked to count the world’s tallest flying bird this weekend, in a survey meant to set a national baseline for a species that has been in decline.
Barkhera, a modest wetland about 30 km from Jaipur near Shivdaspura, has long been a quiet favourite among birders, but this winter encroachment has become visible to the naked eye.
Researchers at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology have produced the first detailed climate-based assessment of the ibisbill in the north-western Himalayas, finding that warming could widen the area with suitable climate for the bird while boulder mining eats away at its breeding rivers.
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.
A herd of nine elephants, including two calves, wandered out of Bhimgad Wildlife Sanctuary and into the paddy fields around Khanapur taluk this week, in what officials say is the first elephant movement ever recorded in the Belagavi Forest Division.
Four of Asia’s hornbill species have a genome to call their own for the first time.