How clean are our forests?

The inordinate focus on cities and towns seems to suggest that garbage doesn’t occur elsewhere. But that is hardly so

Snake slides: Inside Colonel Sher Jung National Park with a herpetologist

Wildlife Institute of India fellow Nidhi Singh chronicles her survey of the park and her first encounters with creatures she fears the most

Simply Put: The Great Escape

Poultry culling in Bhubaneswar amid bird flu fears

Samples of chicken that died at Odisha Agricultural University tested H5N1 positive on January 27

Yellowstone’s solution to its excess bison problem: Capture and send them for slaughter

Park officials will capture 600-900 of the animals this winter and ship them

Distress call

Inching in

A comprehensive study of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park points to government connivance in the destruction of Mumbai's invaluable heritage

Lions, leopards have made a comeback in Africa’s 3rd-largest national park, says report

Rigorous anti-poaching measures including patrolling, effective prosecution and cultural sensitisation led to the rebound in populations, says …

Project Cheetah: Two more cubs die, toll increases to six

Officials say the cubs died of severe dehydration caused due to extreme temperatures

Popocatepetl, Etna, Nyamuragira: Volcanoes erupt on three continents

Ash spewed on towns and cities nearby by the three volcanoes throws normal life out of gear

Challenges galore for Monarch of the Glen: Hangul fawn-hind ratio touches lowest-ever level

The latest census also reveals that the stag-hind ratio is very poor for the embattled cervid species

Kashmir: Why the Hangul’s future still hangs in the balance?

As the state readies itself for results from this year’s census of the critically endangered deer species, Down To Earth looks at the …

Bhitarkanika now has more estuarine crocodiles

Last year, 1,698 individuals had been spotted

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Road through Corbett

Flight to extinction

IUCN lists three species of Indian vultures as critically endangered

Improving human-elephant relations

Climbing the machan: Poverty and animal conflict in Karnataka

Human-wildlife conflict is a monumental issue for farmers living in subsistence, conflict with wild animals disproportionately impacts the poor

Excess rainfall in these Indian protected areas offers no relief from wildfires

Over 50% of fire occurrences were reported from 9 national parks and wildlife sanctuaries, shows DTE analysis

Simply Put: Finding Kuno’s cheetahs

Archaeology shows how hunter-gatherers fitted into southern Africa’s first city, 800 years ago

One of the foundational developments that took place that led to the rise of the Mapungubwe Kingdom was the accumulation of wealth

Saltie census 2023: 1,793 estuarine crocodiles including 20 whitish ones counted in Bhitarkanika

Last year, 1,784 of the reptiles had been sighted

Tiger survey: Census work covers 400 sq km in Chhattisgarh’s Maoist territory

Indravati Tiger Reserve had three tigers in 2018-19

Around 2,500 crocodiles born in Odisha’s Bhitarkanika National Park

The number of hatchlings was fewer than last year due to flood damage during Cyclone Yaas