A new and rare species of climber has been discovered in the Western Ghats in Idukki district of Kerala. The discovery was made by a team of scientists from the Jawahar Lal Nehru Tropical Botanical Garden and Research Institute. The climber belongs to the same family as Colocasia, the popular indoor plants with broad heart-shaped […]
Video: New Diatom Species Discovered in Meghalaya Cave
Researcher Dr. Karthick Balasubramanian and the team from the Agharkar Research Institute (ARI), Pune have discovered a new diatom species named Diploneis mawsmaii after the Mawsmai caves of Cherrapunji, where it was found.
Studying Human-Animal Interaction During the Lockdown ‘Anthropause’
From the moment the lockdown began in India in March 2020, social media was abuzz with animal sightings across the country in urban areas. From the civet seen in Kerala to the leopards visiting colonies in Chandigarh and flamingoes in Mumbai, it seemed the lack of people on roads made animals bolder to venture beyond […]
Endangered Star Tortoises Rescued and Released with Satellite Tags
In a first, conservation organization Wildlife SOS and Karnataka Forest Department have rescued over 50 Endangered Star Tortoises from smugglers and released them back in their natural habitat after fitting satellite tags on the animals to track their survival. This is the first time that a satellite telemetry study of Indian Star tortoises rescued from […]
News Short From the Wild
21.07.2019 – 27.07.2019 20 million-year-old species of Vine Snake Found in Western Ghats A team of researchers from Indian Institute of Science (IIS), Bengaluru trying to study snakes present in the Western Ghats of India. During this research, researchers found a new species of vine snake belonging to an ancient ancestry dating back to between […]
News Shorts from the Wild
8 July 2019 – 14 July 2019 Assam Floods Submerge 90% of Kaziranga National Park The water level in Kaziranga National Park has increased and over 70 percent to 90 percent of the park is under water following the incessant rainfall in Assam. The government had deployed special rhino protection force this year as these animals […]
News Shorts from the Wild
30 June 2019 – 07 July 2019 Impressed Tortoise Seen for the First Time in India Bunty Tao, a ranger under the Hapoli forest division in Arunachal Pradesh’s Kamle district, saw the tortoise in the hands of one of the villagers. He rescued it and thought this one was different. “I’ve seen turtles and tortoises […]
Infographic: Why Vultures are Important
In a very sad incident last week, poachers in Botswana killed more than 500 vultures by poisoning the elephant carcass they were eating. While this happened in Africa, the vultures of India are not safe either. Since the 1980s their population has only seen a downward trend with most of the species found in India […]
Quiz: Endangered or Not
A quick and fun way to test your knowledge about endangered species of India. Play now!
In Pics: An Elephant’s Long Walk to Freedom
It was morning of 18th May when Deepa Mathur a professor at Government Polytechnic College in Kota was taking a morning safari at the famed Kabini region of Nagarhole National Park when she spotted a bull elephant. The elephant was trying to crossover to another part of the forest when he got stuck in the […]
India Gets A New Species of Venomous Pit Viper Snake
When Rohan Pandit and Wangchu Phiang accidentally stumbled upon a brown snake on a steep slope of a forest in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh in India, little did they know that the reptile had never been formally described before. Now, in a new paper, researchers have described this snake as a new-to-science species of […]