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26 stories for “Western Ghats”
Clear filtersThe Kerala State Biodiversity Board (KSBB) has begun the Red List Assessment of Ecosystems (RLE) project, the first such State-level exercise in India. Running for one year, it is being carried out jointly by the Kerala...
On 27 July 2026 the Union government issued its seventh draft notification to declare 56,825.7 sq km of the Western Ghats as an Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA) across Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala and Ta...
A new study has cautioned that the rare Myristica swamps of Kerala's Western Ghats are close to disappearing because of habitat loss. These freshwater swamps occur mainly in Kerala, with small patches in the Andaman and...
Scientists have identified a new flowering plant species, Osbeckia ulotricha, belonging to the Melastomataceae family, in the Agasthyamalai Biosphere Reserve of the Western Ghats. The discovery adds to the recorded plant...
The ICAR-National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources (NBAGR) has formally registered the Periyar cow, also called Periyar Kullan, as an indigenous cattle breed. It is the second breed from Kerala to gain national recogni...
Scientists have described a new freshwater crab species, Ghatiana karnataka, from the Mookambika Wildlife Sanctuary in Karnataka. It is the 15th species of the genus Ghatiana recorded from the Western Ghats and is one of...
The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) under MoEFCC completed the National Catalogue of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), with the final volume published in Zootaxa.India has 13,703 Lepidoptera species in 3,705 genera,...
IntroductionIn a deeply structural and highly massive wildlife conservation success, Varayattumudy in Idukki district, Kerala, has strictly and officially emerged as a fierce massive major habitat for the endangered Nilg...
IntroductionIn a deeply structural and highly massive ecological intervention, the Central Government strictly and officially reissued the draft notification for the massive Western Ghats Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA...
In a deeply structural and highly massive environmental policy decision, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) strictly and officially reconfirmed the layout for the massive 56,825.7 sq. km Ecol...
IntroductionIn a deeply structural and highly massive ecological endeavor, researchers from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) strictly and officially compiled INvenTree-meta, forcefully establishing it a...
Scientists have discovered Lestes paloti, a new species of spreadwing damselfly, in the Western Ghats of Kerala. It belongs to the family Lestidae of the order Odonata and is named after Dr. Muhamed Jafer Palot of the Zo...
