New Species of Parachute Gecko Recorded in Mizoram
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Comparative Analysis of Ethno Medicinal Plants Among Some Communities of Manipur, North East India.
Chandrima Ningombam and Siddappa Setty European Chemical Bulletin | June 25, 2023 The term ethnobotany means the study of the plants in a particular region and their uses based on indigenous cultural beliefs and practices by the local population. And such treatment is not related with modern physician drug. During the study it was observed […]
Impact of Alien Plants on Western Ghats Causes Concern
Anoop N.R., T. Ganesh Frontline | June 15, 2023 A 2020 study showed that the Lantana camara, a tropical American shrub, has invaded more than 40 per cent of India’s tiger habitats, threatening them through a causal chain that ultimately depletes the tiger’s prey base. The shrub’s presence was most prominent in the Shivalik hills, central India, […]
Diet of Montagu’s Harriers Circus pygargus Wintering in India: Analysing Seasonal, Regional and Sex Differences Using Web-Sourced Photographs and Pellet Contents
Arjun Kannan, Subbaiah Thalavaipandi, Deven Mehta, A. Saravanan, M. B. Prashanth, Thyagarajan Ganesh Acta Ornithologica | June 14, 2023 Studies on the diet composition of bird species provide valuable insights on their habitat use, trophic interactions and prey selection. Prey abundance can drive movements of raptors in their wintering grounds. But such links have been […]
Indian BIRDS
Rajkamal Goswami Vol. 18 No. 6 | June 2, 2023 Meghalaya is part of the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot (Myers et al. 2000), and is one of the Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas in India (Rahmani et al. 2016). The state has nine Important Bird Areas (IBAs) including Narpuh Reserve Forests and Saipung in Jaintia Hills. […]
Why are migratory birds giving India a miss?
Arjun Kannan, Prashanth M.B, T. Ganesh Frontline | June 2, 2023 It was a late winter evening in the early 1980s. One of us (T. Ganesh) was in a small patch of grassland near Hyderabad, counting harriers, a hawk-like bird that migrates to India in winter. There were hundreds of them, all flocking down to […]
Snails on the Plate: Edible Freshwater Molluscs of Northeast India
Anushree Jadhava,b, Nipu Kumar Dasa,b, Maitreya Sila & N A Aravind Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge | May 29, 2023 In many parts of the world, freshwater molluscs are extensively harvested for food and medicine. Northeast India is one such region where freshwater molluscs are consumed by the tribal and economically impoverished communities. These molluscs […]
Roof of the World: Home and Border in the Genomic Era
Wa Da, Suresh K. Rana, Kamal Bawa, Krushnamegh Kunte, Zhengyang Wang Molecular Ecology Resource | May 26, 2023 Himalaya and the Tibetan Plateau, known as the ‘land of snow’ and the ‘roof of the world’, is home to tens of millions of indigenous people who live with a staggering amount of biological diversity. In the […]
A Daytime Observation of a Spotted Linsang Prionodon Pardicolor in Namdapha Tiger Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh, India
Yumlam Benjamin Bida & Aditya Pradhan Small Carnivore Conservation | vol. 61, 2023 A Spotted Linsang Prionodon pardicolor was sighted and photographed at an elevation of 533 m asl along the Namdapha River in Namdapha Tiger Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh, India. This is the first verifiable record of the species utilising an open space along riverine […]
A Sneak Peek Into the Bird’s Beak
Seshadri K S Deccan Herald | April 28, 2023 Beaks are an appendage diverse in shape, size and function. Bird beaks are technically referred to as bills composite structures that lack teeth. Beaks are bony extensions of the upper and lower mandibles (jaw) covered by a layer of keratinised tissue called ‘rhamphotheca’. The keratinised tissue […]
