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Can Animals Sense Disasters Before We Do? What Science Says About an Old...

In an Indian village, a change in the behaviour of ants can mean more than it appears to. Before heavy rain, people have long watched ants carry eggs and larvae towards higher, drier ground. Frogs...

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‘Vultures Are Ecological Sanitizers’: Why India Is Building ‘Restaurants’ for...

At dawn, a carcass is dragged into a fenced clearing near Assam’s Kulsi landscape. By midday, dark shapes begin gathering overhead. Soon, critically endangered vultures descend in cautious bursts onto...

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A Day with Bear Rewilders: Following a Team in Arunachal Pradesh Giving Cubs...

“Just about 10 more kilometres to go,” someone joked as I paused for breath, peeling off leeches wriggling past my guards. We had started early that morning, accompanying four Asiatic black bear cubs...

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The Fascinating Science of How India’s Fish Survive in Freshwater and the Sea

A rui (rohu) can spend its life in a pond in Bengal without drinking much water. A bangda (Indian mackerel) in the Arabian Sea faces the opposite challenge: surrounded by saltwater, it must prevent too...

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Glaw Lake Became India’s 101st Ramsar Site. Ecologist Explains What That...

In December 2024, a survey team trekked more than 16 km through the Kamlang Tiger Reserve and Wildlife Sanctuary to reach Glaw Lake, tucked 1,168 metres above sea level in the Eastern Himalayas. Fed by...

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Birds, Fish, Frogs & Dragonflies: The Hidden Life Inside India’s Familiar Ponds

If you grew up near a pond, you may remember it by what happened around it: fish breaking the surface, frogs calling after rain, dragonflies hovering over the water, or an egret standing at the edge...

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Why Is Parliament Debating a 'Cat' From South West Bengal?

On the evening of August 7, the phrase that surfaced in Parliament was an unusual one for a national debate: a fishing cat.   The Fishing Cat is protected under Schedule I of India’s Wildlife...

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Birds Are Flying Into Delhi's Offices to Escape the Heat & Rescue Teams Say...

Near India Gate this April, a black kite dropped from the sky. It was an ordinary afternoon when the call reached the rescue desk at Wildlife SOS. When the team arrived, they found the bird lying still...

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Gone for 60 Years, Indian Grey Hornbills Return to Gir — What It Reveals...

For the fourth year in a row, Indian grey hornbills have bred successfully in Gujarat’s Gir landscape. It is a milestone that represents much more than the return of a single bird. The species had...

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One Baby Gibbon's Rescue Is Shining a Light on India's Last 5,000 Apes

Deep inside a forest near Kohora in Assam's Golaghat district, a tiny western hoolock gibbon refused to let go of her mother. The adult had died from electrocution. Barely three to four weeks old, the...

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Trapped, Dehydrated, and Running Out of Time: The Rescue of a Sloth Bear in...

  By the time Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) rescuers reached the dry agricultural well in Odisha’s Similipal landscape, the sloth bear at the bottom was showing clear signs of heat stress. It was...

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Rescued From Haryana's Streets in 2013, Elephant Spends 12 Years Building a...

Every evening, Erika sets the pace. She walks a familiar route through the forested grounds of the Elephant Rehabilitation Centre in Ban Santour, Haryana, and the herd follows — Lilly and Jasmine...

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How This New DNA Tool Could Reveal Where Trafficked Pangolins Were Poached

Scientists tracing a suitcase full of seized pangolin scales may soon be able to tell not just what species the scales came from, but the exact forest where the animal once moved through the...

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How Sniffer Dogs Are Becoming India’s New Frontline Against Illegal Wildlife...

A tiger claw wrapped in cloth. Pangolin scales hidden inside sacks of grain. Parakeets crammed into cages and pushed through railway stations before dawn. Across India, wildlife trafficking networks...

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Once Near Extinction, India’s Elusive Caracal Is Making a Comeback in Rajasthan

Across western India, the caracal, once widespread across its dry landscapes, is now close to local extinction. But the good news is that recent findings in Rajasthan have confirmed the presence of a...

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New Born Lion Cubs In Mumbai Park Raise A Rare Question : Can Lions And...

Three lion cubs were born on the night of January 11 at Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) in Mumbai. Born to lioness Bharati and lion Manas, the cubs are part of a carefully managed conservation...

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How a Tiger Couple in Kheoni Revived a Forgotten Forest

In the dry deciduous belt of the Malwa-Nimar region in western Madhya Pradesh, extending slightly into Rajasthan, a tiger couple has rewritten the fate of a forest. Yuvraj and Meera, now the dominant...

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With 4 New Cubs, India’s Cheetah Count Rises to 57: A First Wild Birth by...

In images that have since gone viral from Kuno National Park, a young cheetah is seen curled around her four newborn cubs, the tiny bodies huddled close as they feed.  The mother, KGP-2,  an...

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Inside a Rajasthan Centre Where Great Indian Bustards Are Raised Carefully...

In a controlled enclosure in Rajasthan, two Great Indian Bustard chicks have just hatched. Small, downy, and still unsteady, they may not look like much at first glance. For a bird hanging on by a...

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How Forest Guardians in Wayanad Are Using Water and Vigilance to Keep the...

When the sun climbs over the Western Ghats, the forests of Wayanad turn from emerald havens into dry and dusty landscapes where every drop of water is precious. In Thariyode, deep within the Ladesmith...

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