Fires in India’s protected forests are heading in opposite directions depending on the landscape, with burned area climbing in some reserves and shrinking in others, and each trend is changing what grows back.
Centre for Wildlife Studies
The endangered lion-tailed macaques of the Western Ghats carry roughly twice as many kinds of parasite when they live beside human settlements, many of them species that normally infect cattle, and researchers think the burden may be one reason so few young macaques survive in the region’s shrinking forest patches.