Wildlife Week Celebrated, Focusing on Bird-watching
The Wildlife Week 2025 was celebrated at Seram village in East Siang district on Sunday, focusing on bird watching and plastic-free initiative. This year’s theme, ‘Human-Wildlife Coexistence’, emphasized a shift from the colonial-era protectionist approach to a more inclusive and community-led conservation effort that can support both biodiversity and local livelihoods.
Buffering Karnataka’s Waterbodies
SCIENCE India’s Invasive Species Present a Dilemma: Document or Conserve
Conservation scientists are sounding warning bells over “stealth invader” species that they say are destroying local biodiversity and changing land scapes. This has in turn posed a chickenand egg dilemma for researchers: should they wait to document the effects of all invasive alien species in India and then prepare a conservation plan or should they […]
Discovering New Species and Saving Existing Ones: An Interview with Sahanashree Ramakrishnaiah
Sahanashree Ramakrishnaiah, Junior Research Fellow at the Insect iosystematics and Conservation Lab, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), tells us about her work at ATREE, which focuses on the systematics, diversity, and conservation of ants
Blackbucks Thrive Outside a Fragmented Protected Reserve
Mongabay
Are Insects Disappearing?
Frontline
Lake Revive: Nature-based solutions tool to restore and sustain urban lakes
Priyanka Jamwal talks about a science-based tool that integrates ecology, benchmarks, and nature-based solutions to guide sustainable restoration of India’s polluted urban lakes.
18th Edition of Vembanad Fish Count in Kerala Records 61 Species
The Hindu
Bengal Forest Department Rolls Out App To Profile Elephants, Track Location
The West Bengal forest department, in collaboration with voluntary organisations, has launched a special app to get locations of elephants straying into localities. As the number of poaching incidents is on the rise in the Indo-Nepal border, leading to the death of many elephants, the initiative aims to stop that. Two organisations — Ashoka Trust […]
Urgent Policy Protection Needed for Rajasthan’s Deserts, Grasslands: Experts
Press Trust of India
