Maharashtra’s GR No. SAVVI-2025/PR.KR.11/VANE-11, issued on 7 May 2026, explicitly prohibits tree planting in grasslands and wetlands — the first time a government resolution has put this in writing at scale. The same order that launched a 300-crore plantation drive also protects the ecosystems most at risk from it.
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Kanha’s meadows did not maintain themselves. Four wild buffaloes from Kaziranga may be the beginning of a different answer.
A Great Indian Bustard chick hatched in Kutch, Gujarat using the jumpstart method — the first in Gujarat in over a decade. It learned to fly. Then it vanished. The story of a bird on the edge, and the science trying to pull it back.
Clocked at 80 km/h across open grassland, the blackbuck is India’s fastest land animal. It was once nearly extinct. Now it’s running again in Chhattisgarh — after 50 years of absence.