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10 stories for “Indian” · October 2026
Clear filtersThe Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun, is preparing the country's first national-level assessment of the population, distribution and range of all four bear species in India, which belong to the family Ursidae....
India has begun evaluating all 1,211 regularly occurring bird species, under the IUCN framework. The work is led by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), the IUCN SSC Center for Species Survival India–Wildlife Trust of I...
A 2026 survey puts the number of Aldabra giant tortoises (Aldabrachelys gigantea) on Aldabra Atoll at 180,000–183,000, exceeding the human population of Seychelles. The Seychelles Islands Foundation and the University of...
Two more Indian wetlands — Chandigarh's Sukhna Wetland and Uttar Pradesh's Sauj Jheel — have been designated Ramsar sites, raising the country's count to 103. Sukhna lies at the foothills of the Outer Himalayas, while Sa...
At Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh, the Indian-born female cheetah KJP21 has delivered five cubs. Their father is a male brought in from Botswana, so these are the first cheetahs of Botswana lineage to be born on In...
In a first, two male Great Indian Bustards (GIBs) bred in captivity were released into the wild at Desert National Park in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. The release forms part of the Bustard Recovery Programme for this criticall...
Scientists of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have confirmed the discovery of a new species of marine eel from the Bay of Bengal. The species has been given the scientific name Bathymyrus perplexus. The finding adds...
For the first time, captive-bred Great Indian Bustard (GIB) chicks are to be released into the wild at Desert National Park, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. The GIB (Ardeotis nigriceps) is Critically Endangered on the IUCN list an...
The Union Environment Minister presented India's first PRAMAAN certificates under the Indian Forest and Wood Certification Scheme (IFWCS). Recipients were the Andhra Pradesh Forest Development Corporation, for 33,000 hec...
The Indian Peafowl (Pavo cristatus) has been recorded for the first time in Orang National Park and Tiger Reserve in Assam. The Indian Peafowl is the national bird of India and belongs to the pheasant family, Phasianidae...
