India has published guidelines for recognising conservation that happens outside its national parks and sanctuaries, a category the global goal to protect 30 per cent of land and sea by 2030 counts alongside formal protected areas.
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Villages in north-eastern India are spending six days on the football pitch to persuade young people that the pangolin, one of the most heavily trafficked mammals on earth, is worth protecting.
The world’s first progress report on its 2030 promise to halt and reverse the loss of nature finds that fewer than half of the national targets assessed so far are on track.
Wild animal populations monitored around the world have shrunk by an average of 73 per cent since 1970, and a new global assessment says tigers are among the few species showing that the slide can be reversed.
India’s relationship between storytelling and animals is older than almost anything else in the literary record. Part 8 of 8: animation, the Panchatantra, the Jataka Tales, and the wildlife film India has not yet made for its children.
IWN has been covering India’s tigers since 2015. On International Tiger Day 2026, a curated roundup of the pieces that matter most — organised by theme.
On 14 June 2026, forest officials in North Sikkim filmed a herd of eight Mishmi takins — the first video evidence of the species in the state, and one of the most significant confirmed records in over two decades.
Regional Indian films about wildlife carry a specificity that mainstream Bollywood struggles to match. From Tamil Nadu’s forest rangers to Kerala’s contested buffer zones and the streaming era’s new ambitions.
India’s eastern coastline and its island territories are, in documentary terms, some of the most ecologically significant and most overlooked landscapes in the country.
Northeast India is one of the world’s great biodiversity frontiers. The change in how it has been documented arrived from an unexpected direction.