India Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (Apr 1-7)

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of Indian ecology, botany and zoology

Researchers quantify damage caused by peafowl to farmers

They selected two plots. Peafowl were allowed in one and not in the other. After four years of repeated estimates, the researchers have concluded …

A tiger’s tale

Avni, the Yavatmal tigress, died because she was caught in the crossfire of people's expectations from the government and the pretence …

A historic judgement by the Supreme Court on elephant corridors

By ordering the shutdown of illegal resorts built on the Sigur Plateau corridor in the Nilgiris, the apex court has set a precedent for more …

Refugees in their own home

In Kanyakumari Wildlife Sanctuary, thousands of hectares of land leased to private contractors is threatening wildlife in the region 

How solar-powered fences mitigated human-elephant conflict in Assam

A biologist employed with a non-profit in the North East describes her organisation’s efforts at reducing negative encounters between …

What’s on the menu for India’s most endangered canid?

Decrease in natural prey is a primary reason for decline in dhole population

Tranquilised wild elephant dies after falling off lorry; autopsy indicates cardiac arrest cause of death

Wildlife activist alleges negligence by forest department during capture operation  

NGT direction to notify Odisha elephant corridors welcome, but more needs to be done

Survival, free movement of pachyderm population possible only if connecting corridors are revived, restored

Animal group urges PM Modi: Raise wildlife trade ban issue in G20 meet

The organisation also floated a petition, which, it claims, has received over one million signatures globally

Can’t do without support: Wildlife Institute chief writes to environment ministry

The Union finance ministry on September 30, 2020 recommended that MoEF&CC ‘disengage’ from five autonomous institutions, including&…

New marine amphipod species found in Chillika Lake, Odisha

Shrimp-like crustacea named Demaorchestia alanensis

Simply Put: Life cycle of a cheetah

Simply Put: Net trouble for Gangetic dolphins

Similipal fires enter core areas, firefighters struggle in inaccessible forests

Fires spreading to the forest core is a sign of danger, say experts

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No food in forests: Artificial greening of jungles equivalent to farming in wilderness for herbivores, says expert

India needs a single comprehensive law, nodal agency to deal with invasive species

Four more cheetah cubs born in Kuno; but experts point out captive breeding not conservation

Namibian female cheetah Jwala becomes mother for the second time, but never released in the wild

Ban on more drugs harmful for vultures welcome move, but more stringent steps needed: Experts

Nimesulide drug continues to possess a threat and should also be banned soon, conservationsists say

Project Cheetah: Now cub dies in Kuno within 2 months of birth

Forest officials said the cause of the cub’s death is yet to be ascertained. At present, the number of adult cheetahs stands at 17 and cubs at 3

Road to COP15: DTE’s coverage in the run-up to Montreal

The 15th Conference of Parties to the Convention of Biological Diversity will be held from December 7-19, 2022

We’ve been tracking birds in a small Nigerian forest for 18 years: What we found & why it matters

Population changes locally for both migrant and resident bird species were similar, being reasonably stable or increasing

Kuno: Locals await arrival of African cheetahs, hope to benefit from tourist influx

Staff and authorities of Kuno National Park are struggling to keep leopards out of the 500-hectare enclosure made for the cheetahs

Reviving ourselves is the only way to revive our rivers

New disturbance to river ecology is the proliferation of riverside development projects that aim to beautify a dying river as it passes through …