Migratory freshwater fish have declined by 81 per cent worldwide since the 1970s, and a commentary from India’s Himalayan headwaters argues that dams and village rules there will decide whether the survivors still have a river to travel.
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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.
India’s biodiversity does not sort itself neatly by species. It sorts itself by landscape.
In the most thrilling news for conservationists, a snow leopard has been sighted in Kumaon in Himalayas, proving […]