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Fishing cat. Image by Kelinahandbasket via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Fishing cats in India struggle to survive outside protected areas

Mongabay.com 4 Apr 2025

Uttarakhand’s extreme weather wreaks havoc on crops, livelihoods & futures

Swati Thapa 3 Apr 2025
An archival image of Satish Bhaskar holding a hawksbill turtle. Image courtesy of Satish Bhaskar.

The Turtle Walker: Satish Bhaskar, sea turtle conservationist

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Mar 2025
A red sand boa. Image by Sagar khunte via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Superstitions fuel trafficking of India’s red sand boa

Mongabay.com 28 Mar 2025
Zeeshan Mirza with one of the new tarantula species from the Western Ghats. Mirza has discovered several species of reptiles in India as well. Photo courtesy of Mirza.

Exploring India, finding new species: Interview with biologist Zeeshan Mirza

Liz Kimbrough 27 Mar 2025
A painting at the Azam Emba restaurant in Ranchi depicting tribal life. Image by Kundan Pandey for Mongabay India.

India’s Indigenous restaurateurs bring tribal cuisines to the city

Mongabay.com 24 Mar 2025
A still from Turtle Walker.

How one researcher walked thousands of miles along India’s shores to conserve sea turtles

Priyanka Shankar 20 Mar 2025
Image of a board at the entrance to Aravalli Biodiversity Park in New Delhi. Image by ccarlstead via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

New Delhi transforms degraded lands into biodiversity parks

Mongabay.com 19 Mar 2025
a solar farm by Vinaykumar8687 via Wikimedia Commons (CCBY-SA4.0).

Solar farm expansion in India brings concerns of reckless herbicide use

Mongabay.com 13 Mar 2025

As Sri Lanka’s rail tracks continue to claim elephant lives, experts suggest solutions

Malaka Rodrigo 7 Mar 2025
Image of two feral horses. Image by Dhruba Jyoti Baruah via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Feral horses find a home in India’s protected areas

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2025
Dr. Ajith Kumar. Photo by Ishwar Narayanan

Indian wildlife biologist Ajith Kumar has died

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Mar 2025
Image of fisherwomen selling fish at a market in Kerala. Image by India Water Portal via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

India’s fisherwomen getting left behind by blue economy policies

Mongabay.com 28 Feb 2025
Image of a Madras hedgehog by Santhosh Krishnan13 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The rarely seen Madras hedgehog in India is also poorly studied

Mongabay.com 26 Feb 2025

Photo series on Himalayan water-saving ice stupas wins global award

Shanna Hanbury 18 Feb 2025

Wild Targets

Mongabay.com 17 Feb 2025

Rice fields of India host valuable, but disappearing, wild edibles

Mongabay.com 17 Feb 2025

Indian villages seek to protect ecosystem by opting out of state’s development push

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2025

Indian town trials virtual solar fences to reduce conflict with elephants

Mongabay.com 4 Feb 2025
Why is this snake one of the most trafficked species in India? | Wild Targets

Why is this snake one of the most trafficked species in the world? | Wild Targets

Shatabdi Chakrabarti 29 Jan 2025
An agile gibbon in Berlin Zoo.

Increase in gibbon trafficking into India has conservationists worried

Spoorthy Raman 29 Jan 2025
Coal miners in Meghalaya, India.

Coal gasification, an old technology, is quietly expanding across Asia

Nithin Coca 21 Jan 2025
Monpura Island. Image courtesy of Ammar Bin Asad.

River culture is the rhythmic pulse of the Bengal Delta (commentary)

Umme Sayeda 17 Jan 2025

Serious groundwater contamination in several parts of India: Report

Mongabay.com 16 Jan 2025
A firefighter in the Xingu Indigenous Territory.

World’s record heat is worsening air pollution and health in Global South

Simrin Sirur (with Orji Sunday and Karla Mendes) 13 Jan 2025

India’s latest forest cover report hints at countrywide degradation

Mongabay.com 7 Jan 2025
Zeeshan Mirza examines a new tarantula species found in India's western Ghats

Four new tarantula species found in India’s Western Ghats mountains

Liz Kimbrough 31 Dec 2024

‘Wild Frequencies’: Podcast miniseries from India explores wild animal sounds

Mongabay.com 30 Dec 2024

Golden jackals thrive in mangroves of Indian megacity Mumbai: Study

Mongabay.com 27 Dec 2024
The 2024 paper proposes Leopardus pardinoides, or the clouded tiger cat, as a new species. This small wildcat is found in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, south to Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Image courtesy of Johanes Pfleiderer. Article title - A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

Photos: Top new species from 2024

Liz Kimbrough 26 Dec 2024

Across continents, Mongabay fellows share insights from reporting in the field

Michael Esquer, Swati Thapa, Tarinipre Francis 23 Dec 2024
Banner image of a Ranthambore tiger by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

‘Missing’ tigers in India: Tracking gaps or oversight?

Mongabay.com 2 Dec 2024

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