More than 25,000 mature teak trees have died in the forests of Madhya Pradesh’s Betul district over about three years, and forest officials suspect drought and heat stress.
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A young cheetah has died of gunshot wounds in India’s Madhya Pradesh state, raising questions about how an animal that officials say is tracked around the clock came to be shot.
A cheetah that killed a calf in a village on the edge of India’s only wild cheetah population was beaten by residents and left seriously wounded, according to an activist’s account that has not been confirmed.
Young gharials appear to take their cue to start basking each morning from the light in the sky, a finding that raises questions about what artificial light along riverbanks does to a species with a recovery score of just 19 per cent.
Wildlife SOS says its co-founder and CEO Kartick Satyanarayan has now spent roughly 34 hours under questioning by […]
A cheetah cub has died in Madhya Pradesh, the seventh cheetah death in India this year, and a request for the post-mortem reports on every cheetah lost since the reintroduction began has just been turned down on grounds of national security.
Seed companies that profit from India’s crop varieties have paid ₹2.02 crore towards protecting the biodiversity those varieties came from, and the money is now reaching state-level bodies that can spend it on conservation in local communities.
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.
India’s first high-altitude wildlife safari has begun in Ladakh, with the Union Territory’s Lieutenant Governor flagging off six vehicles on Wednesday for trips built around snow leopards.
An Indian-born cheetah at Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh’s Sheopur district has given birth to five cubs, taking India’s cheetah count to 60 and starting a Botswana lineage in the population.