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.
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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 […]