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How tigers in Uttarakhand’s Thano range are under threat from an airport project

A WWF-Uttarakhand Forest Department study found new evidence of a breeding, thriving population of tigers at the Shivalik Elephant Reserve.
Rishika Pardikar
Photo Essay

Click, click, hoot, hoot: How one man photographed all species of owls in India

The Indian subcontinent is home to about 38 species of owls. One fine day, Dhiraj Singh set out to click them all. Here’s what happened.
Dhiraj Singh
Tamil Nadu

Listing of Koonthankulam Bird Sanctuary as Ramsar site means little

The conservation exercise will be in vain if the place’s dynamic ecology is sought to be controlled.
T. Ganesh,M. Mathivanan
White Space

Where the wild things are...

There are innumerable parallel universes in each plant, bush, and tree.
Subash Jeyan

More stories from Wildlife

When the night comes alive

Come monsoon, head to Amboli in the Western Ghats.
Emmanual Yogini
Naturalists and enthusiasts on a night trek in Amboli.

Trek to Amboli: When the night comes alive

Come monsoon, head to the Western Ghats, if amphibians and reptiles are the stuff of your dreams.
Emmanual Yogini

Nature’s early warning system

Butterfly species need to be conserved in real landscapes, not only because they deserve it in their own right but also because of their usefulness as
Vaithianathan Kannan
A kaleidoscope of blue tiger butterflies.

Butterflies as nature’s early warning system

Butterfly species need to be conserved in real landscapes, not only because they deserve it in their own right but also because of their usefulness as
Vaithianathan Kannan

Monarchs of the mountains

While one side of the Kajinag National Park is home to the markhor, the elusive wild goat with spiralling horns, the other side boasts a variety of bi
Text by G. Shaheed , Photographs by Dr Jainy Maria Kuriakose

The monarchs of Kashmir's mountains

While one side of the Kajinag National Park is home to the markhor, the elusive wild goat with spiralling horns, the other side boasts a variety of bi
Text by G. Shaheed , Photographs by Dr Jainy Maria Kuriakose

Amazing ants

Omnipresent, with a unique social organisation and the ability to adapt to different environments, ants have often been compared to human society. An
Dr Vaithianathan Kannan
Army ants (Aenictus artipus) are highly effective predators, armed as they are with large mandibles and a painful sting.

Amazing ants

Omnipresent, with a unique social organisation and the ability to adapt to different environments, ants have often been compared to human society. An
Dr Vaithianathan Kannan
The tiger’s survival depends on a healthy, balanced and biodiverse habitat.

Saving the tiger in Sathyamangalam

The unique location of the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve, straddling the valley where the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats meet, holds great potenti
Dr Vaithianathan Kannan
A biodiversity class conducted by the Hargila army for the local community of women.

Saving the greater adjutant stork from extinction

Once loathed as a social menace and a bird of ill omen, the greater adjutant stork has changed the fortunes of a few villages in Assam and Bihar, than
G. Shaheed

Different storks

Once loathed as a social menace and a bird of ill omen, the greater adjutant stork has changed the fortunes of a few villages in Assam and Bihar, than
G. Shaheed
Brown-headed gull (Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus).

Wings of hope: How India’s coasts and estuaries sustain shorebird and seabird populations

While climate change has already affected both shorebird and seabird species the world over, the legal protection of the ecosystem holds out hope that
Dr Vaithianathan Kannan,Photographs by Abhishek Mimani
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