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.
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
India is working through a formal extinction-risk check of every bird that turns up in the country year after year, a process that should show which species are slipping towards trouble before they become rarities.
A six-month-old captive-bred Great Indian Bustard released in Desert National Park has been killed by a desert fox, a media report says, the first loss since the programme began releasing birds on 4 October.
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.
A man-made reservoir built 68 years ago for the residents of a planned city has been recognised as a wetland of international importance, even though silt has taken more than half of its water-holding capacity.
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.
Two male Great Indian Bustards raised in captivity were released into the wild at Desert National Park in Jaisalmer on Sunday, the start of a release protocol the environment ministry says it will refine as it learns from these birds.
On Friday, the National Tiger Conservation Authority and the Wildlife Institute of India opened the sixth cycle of a report card they’ve kept on India’s tiger reserves since 2006, and for the first time, reserves will be marked on how they handle their own rubbish.
India’s Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change told delegates from more than 100 countries in Jaipur that India’s Ramsar-listed wetlands have grown from 24 to 101 in a decade.
India announced the launch of Project Rhino on Tuesday, a new scheme of central funding and technical support for the states that shelter India’s greater one-horned rhinos, arriving as Assam — home to roughly four-fifths of the world’s population — closed out 2025 with zero confirmed poaching deaths.