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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 Union Environment Ministry (MoEFCC) has urged the National Green Tribunal to direct Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to submit annual conservation plans for Neelakurinji (Strobilanthes kunthiana), a Western Ghats end...
The Madras High Court barred authorities from permitting the felling or removal of rosewood trees on private lands until the pending writ petition is decided. It kept in abeyance G.O. No. 88, which had accepted a proposa...
Indian scientists from the Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology (IASST) and IIT-Guwahati have created RK-251, a “smart” anticancer drug meant to switch on mainly inside cancer cells, which could reduce h...
A new Himalayan flowering plant has been named Impatiens nimspurjai in honour of Nepali mountaineer Nirmal 'Nimsdai' Purja. First spotted in 2011 in Nepal's western Myagdi district, it was formally described after more t...
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...
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...
IntroductionTo galvanize high-altitude wetland conservation and celebrate its iconic avian state symbol, the Union Territory of Ladakh on 18 August 2026 inaugurated the first-ever Black-Necked Crane Festival across the p...
IntroductionIn a major victory for biodiversity conservation and sovereign genetic rights, the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) on 18 August 2026 disbursed statutory funds generated through the Access and Benefit Sh...
IntroductionIn an exciting entomological breakthrough for Indian biodiversity, entomologists documented the presence of the extremely rare solitary plasterer bee species, Colletes bhutanicus, in India for the very first...
IntroductionFollowing more than 15 years of rigorous taxonomic and genetic research, an international team of herpetologists announced on 15 August 2026 the discovery of three brand-new species of cascade frogs belonging...
IntroductionIn an extraordinary wildlife conservation triumph, the results of the 16th Asiatic Lion Population Estimation (2026) revealed that the population of the endangered Asiatic Lion (Panthera leo persica) has surg...
