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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...
Sikkim has flagged 40 high-hazard glacial lakes, 16 of them in the top-risk Category A for possible Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs). Such lakes form from glacier meltwater and can burst suddenly due to excess water...
Maharashtra's Melghat and Pench Tiger Reserves have become India's most successful sites for releasing captive-bred vultures. Of 29 vultures freed in the two reserves between December 2025 and January 2026, survival rate...
International Vulture Awareness Day 2026 was observed on September 5, the first Saturday of September, to highlight the ecological importance of vultures and promote their conservation. The 2026 theme is "Strengthen the...
The Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) in Assam has marked 25 years of rescue and rehabilitation work. Set up at Panbari near Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve, it is India's first dedicat...
At the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, countries could not agree on a global drought framework. The proposal sought better drought p...
Pune-based scientists have found two new species of microscopic marine organisms, Psammophaga holzmannae and Psammophaga sinhai, in intertidal sediments along Maharashtra's Konkan coast. They are single-celled protists o...
A survey has recorded 165 butterfly species, 37 of them endangered, in Dehing Patkai National Park, Assam. The park spreads over 234.26 sq km in Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts and is one of the surviving stretches of A...
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...
The 17th Conference of Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) began in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Countries are negotiating a global drought framework after COP16 in Riyadh ended w...
Twenty blackbucks, 15 females and 5 males, were released into the Banni Grasslands of Kutch, Gujarat, after being shifted from Vantara in Jamnagar. The blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) is a South Asian grassland antelope...
IntroductionIn a major boost to wildlife tourism and arid-zone ecological education, the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) on 18 August 2026 officially approved the Master Plan for the Desert Zoological Park and Night Safari a...
