India’s Endangered Wild Shots (IEWS) is are new segment that asks you to contribute photos related to nature and wildlife on a given topic each month. At the end of each month, we select a photographer as our IEWS Photographer Of The Month. You can find more details about Wild Shots Here. The topic for […]
#FridayFrogFact – Are There Any Poisonous Frogs In India?
This is a guest post by Madhushri Mudke from GirlGoneBirdzz.com The Poison Dart Frogs are the deadliest frogs in the world. When the poison from a Golden Poison Dart Frog (Phyllobates terribilis) is rubbed on an arrow head and shot at a monkey high up in the canopy – the monkey falls straight down. Natives living […]
Reviving The Natural Coast Guards Of Karnataka
The biodiversity of Karnataka is often represented by depicting the Western Ghats and the tigers. While the importance of both cannot be undermined, there is also the 320-km-long coastline that the state boasts of, with its magnificent rivers, lagoons, bay areas, creeks, and beaches. It is amidst this habitable conglomeration of saline waters from the […]
Rhino Killed In Orang National Park, Assam
The rhino count in Assam has gone down yet again as a full grown male one-horned rhino succumbed to the attack of poachers in Orang National Park in Assam. Authorities at the park found the carcass near Pichola anti-poaching camp in the park. The missing horn was tell-tale evidence of the incidence of poaching. There […]
Tracing The Evolutionary History Of Asian Horned Frogs, Without Fossil Records
If you are in Nagaland, the next time you put frogs in the cooking pot, beware – you might be an unsuspecting contributor to wiping out evolutionary history. A culinary delight to many Southeast Asian communities, frogs are no stranger to Nagaland’s food menu. Held in high gastronomic regard, aficionados here claim that frogs taste […]
Turtle Thought To Be Extinct In The Wild, Discovered In Nagaland
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists the black soft shell turtle as Extinct in the Wild (EW) which means wild population of the species are no more present in the world though they could be present in captivity. It comes as a huge surprise therefore when this freshwater turtle was discovered recently […]
Primate Fossil Discovered From Jammu & Kashmir, Shows A Lemur Like Primate Once Lived Here
A fossil of a new primate species discovered in Kashmir has been found to be a distant relative of the lemurs and might help change the known evolutionary history of primates of India and the world. Fossil hunters have found the jawbone fossil of a new primate species from Kashmir that lived 11 to 14 […]
Rescued – Wild Boar And Lioness Trapped In A Well
The residents of Vijayanagar village, about 10km from Savarkundla and forest department staff were witness to this rare spectacle of a wild boar and a lioness sitting quietly for hours inside a well filled with sand. Though the two were trapped inside the 15-feet deep well for hours, the boar was absolutely not harmed by […]
Rare Dhole Home Range Studied Using Camera Traps For The First Time
A new study led by scientists from Wildlife Conservation Society-India Program, Centre for Wildlife Studies (Bangalore), and University of Florida, USA, presents the first home-range size estimate of Asiatic wild dogs or ‘dholes’ based on camera trap surveys. Image via wikimedia The study, based on intensive camera-trap surveys conducted in Nagarahole and Wayanad wildlife reserves […]
Image Of The Day: Root Bridge Of Meghalaya
This photograph of the famous root bridge of Meghalaya was taken by Nityananda Mukherjee. This is what he had to say about this unique bridge, These bridges are not built, they are grown. And it takes almost a decade or more to become strong and sturdy. The original architects of this natural bridge building technology are […]
Eco Travel: Singalila National Park, West Bengal
Located 7000 feet above sea level in the northwestern extremity of West Bengal, Singalila is a high altitude national park which is a haven for trekkers, birdwatchers and nature lovers. It is home to an incredible diversity of Himalayan flora and fauna. SPECIES TO WATCH Red Panda Ailurus fulgens Endangered Clouded Leopard Neofelis Nebulosa Vulnerable […]