Top pick of India’s threatened wildlife in photographs this week.
9 November, 2025 – 15 November, 2025
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An Indian Roller seen resting on a dry branch of a tree in the forest of Bandhavgarh National Park, Madhya Pradesh. The bird is the state symbol of three Indian states, and now faces a 30% decline in its population. The IUCN recently marked it as ‘Near Threatened’ due to festival hunting and habitat loss.
Photograph: Pranav GTD / Ecency
A massive wild tusker stands amid the lush undergrowth of Bandipur National Park in Karnataka, its long ivory tusks almost brushing the forest floor. India conducted its first DNA-based elephant population survey recently giving much more accurate numbers of the National Heritage Animal.
Photograph: Manish Babu Srinivas/ Instagram
A Malabar giant squirrel pauses on a high branch in the K Gudi forest, BR Hills in Karnataka, its maroon and ochre coat catching the morning light. One of India’s most striking arboreal mammals, the species relies on intact canopies—now increasingly fragmented across its Western Ghats range.
Photograph: Smacfotography / Instagram
A Nilgiri tahr grazes quietly on a steep, fern-covered slope in the Western Ghats. India’s only mountain ungulate, the species survives in shrinking shola–grassland mosaics where habitat loss and human pressure continue to edge it into higher ground.
Photograph: Appuk.45 / Instagram
The Divisional Forest Officer, Keonjhar in Odisha recently posted about the successful Tranquillisation, treatment and revival of adult Makhana (male without tusk) elephant in Telkoi who was injured in persistent infighting with group of male elephants.
Photograph: DFOKeonjhar / X
A great Indian hornbill tosses a berry into the air before swallowing it whole in the Nelliyampathi hills, Kerala. These iconic forest birds, vital seed dispersers in the Western Ghats, are increasingly threatened by habitat loss and dwindling old-growth trees needed for nesting.
Photograph: Faisalmagnet / Instagram
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