Fires in India’s protected forests are heading in opposite directions depending on the landscape, with burned area climbing in some reserves and shrinking in others, and each trend is changing what grows back.
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The endangered lion-tailed macaques of the Western Ghats carry roughly twice as many kinds of parasite when they live beside human settlements, many of them species that normally infect cattle, and researchers think the burden may be one reason so few young macaques survive in the region’s shrinking forest patches.
Scientists have named a newly discovered frog species from Tripura’s Jampui Hills after Padmini Varkey, a Kerala woman known to generations of Thiruvananthapuram students and activists simply as Ammachi.
Four of Asia’s hornbill species have a genome to call their own for the first time.
Hundreds of residents and environmentalists gathered on Madayippara, a laterite plateau in Kerala’s Kannur district, on Saturday evening.
India’s Western Ghats draw thousands of photographers each monsoon season in search of pit vipers, cobras and endemic frogs. A King Cobra trafficking arrest in Kodagu and a peer-reviewed study documenting the disappearance of galaxy frogs from a research site suggest the cost to the animals is real and rising.
Every year before the monsoon, the Western Ghats glow with synchronous fireflies — and this March, scientists published India’s first-ever firefly checklist: 92 species, more than 60% found nowhere else on Earth.
India’s biodiversity does not sort itself neatly by species. It sorts itself by landscape.
Forest officials in Karnataka’s Shivamogga seized 45 country-made explosive devices from a habitual poacher on 19 April 2026. Here’s what handi bombs are, how they work, and why they’re one of the most dangerous threats to Indian wildlife.
The Ministry of Environment’s Regional Empowered Committee has raised fresh concerns about the Wildlife Institute of India’s impact […]