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 […]

Biodiversity in India

This is a guest post by Geography and You team.  The United Nations’ (UN) Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) defines biodiversity or ‘biological diversity’ as “the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are a part; this includes diversity […]

Desired By The Dunes

“Sukhpali, a thin 30-year old with a long, luscious braid, walks briskly into an arid expanse.  Racing on top a rocky mound, she watches over what shimmers like infinite gold – The Great Indian Desert in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan…” Sukhpali was the first female guard to be recruited on the field in the Sudasari range of Desert National Park (DNP) in […]

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