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Deadlier than guns: Explosive bait haunts Sri Lanka’s elephants

Malaka Rodrigo 20 Jun 2019

All that glitters: Cameras spot Asian golden cat in more than one shade

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Jun 2019

Homestay programs in Nepal’s rhino hub hold promise and pitfalls for locals

Abhaya Raj Joshi 12 Jun 2019

New rainforest gecko joins growing list of reptiles unique to Sri Lanka

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 11 Jun 2019

Microplastics a key factor in Sri Lanka’s plunging fish stocks, survey shows

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 7 Jun 2019

For Sri Lanka villagers, monkey business feeds off human actions

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 31 May 2019

A new gecko emerges from Sri Lanka’s Nilgala savanna forest

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 23 May 2019

For India’s imperiled apes, thinking locally matters

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 23 May 2019

Extreme weather puts traditional livelihoods in peril in Sri Lanka, studies warn

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 17 May 2019

An urban ‘butterfly experience’ in Sri Lanka

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 15 May 2019

Meet the new species of venomous pit viper described from India

Shreya Dasgupta 9 May 2019
Sri Lanka Green Pit Viper

Study documents how Sri Lanka’s protected reptiles are traded as pets

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 22 Apr 2019

Sri Lanka calls for increased protection for endemic lizards

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 18 Apr 2019

A fishy translocation highlights dangers of ‘taxonomic inflation’

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 16 Apr 2019

No rhino census this year as Nepal runs short of funds for survey

Abhaya Raj Joshi 11 Apr 2019

Environmental issues among top priorities of urban Indian voters: Report

Mayank Aggarwal 2 Apr 2019

Putting policy into practice to clean up South Asia’s dirty air (commentary)

Nalaka Gunawardene 26 Mar 2019

Nepal reckons with the dark side of its rhino conservation success

Abhaya Raj Joshi 25 Mar 2019

West Bengal’s rhino population hits a record high

Gurvinder Singh 22 Mar 2019

Invasive plants a fast-growing threat to India’s rhinos

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 18 Mar 2019

Seahorse trade continues despite export bans, study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Mar 2019

Reducing human-elephant encounters with calls, texts, and digital signs

Vasudevan Sridharan 6 Mar 2019

Abandoned plantations in forested areas may not recover fully: Study

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Feb 2019

Nepal, in a bid to create a new rhino population, pauses to take stock

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Feb 2019

India-Nepal agreement to boost transborder conservation of rhinos, tigers

Mayank Aggarwal 19 Feb 2019

Nepal court blocks road construction in rhino stronghold of Chitwan Park

Abhaya Raj Joshi 15 Feb 2019

Sri Lanka gets its first data-based elephant distribution map

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Feb 2019
rhino and car

Rhinos or roads? Nepal deals with a tricky balancing act

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Jan 2019
Saravanan points to a large salt pan, part of Ennore Creek in the city of Chennai. The nearby port’s plan to convert the area into industrial real estate sparked protests among fishing communities in 2016. Image by Mahima Jain.

Protecting India’s fishing villages: Q&A with ‘maptivist’ Saravanan

Mahima Jain 10 Jan 2019
Topher White of Rainforest Connection installing a bioacoustic device in the forest canopy. Image by Ben Von Wong.

Eavesdrop on forest sounds to effectively monitor biodiversity, researchers say

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Jan 2019

In India, indigenous youths are filming their own forests and communities

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Dec 2018

Two Indian tribes help reconstruct a forest’s history, in war and in peace

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Dec 2018

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