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A siamang gibbon seized in Chennai, India in August 2024, along with turtles and pythons. It was being carried in the baggage of a passenger travelling from Bangkok.

Illegal trafficking of siamang gibbons is a concerning and underreported crisis (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 18 Apr 2025
Daripalli Ramaiah. Image courtesy of Ministry of Jal Shakti, India

Daripalli Ramaiah, India’s tree man, died April 12, aged 87

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Apr 2025
A lesser woolly horseshoe bat in Maharashtra. Image by Everestsh via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

New bat detection system in India promises more efficient data collection

Mongabay.com 11 Apr 2025
Banner image of a mother and a child protecting themselves from the heat during the 2024 heatwave in New Delhi. Image by Sanshey Biswas/In Old News via Flickr (CCBY2.0)

Heat wave scorches parts of India with record temperatures

Kristine Sabillo 11 Apr 2025
Great Indian bustard chicks born at captive-breeding centers in Rajasthan, India. Image courtesy of the Bustard Recovery Program, WII.

Captive-raised chicks offer hope for extremely rare great Indian bustard

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Apr 2025
Elephant Solar Fence, India.

Can solar fences stop human-elephant conflict in India?

Gowthami Subramaniam 9 Apr 2025
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

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