Mullai festival: Harrier bird counting begins
The Times of India
‘Keetharis’ share traditional knowledge at Mullai fest
The Times of India
Developing Nations Should Be Given Fair Share of Global Carbon Budget: PM Modi at COP28
The Wire
Navigating the Streets
Gautam Aredath, Abi T. Vanak Indian Public Policy Review | November 30, 2023 The Indian government’s approach to dog population management for the last two decades –the animal birth control (ABC) program –has yielded poor results. Aside from its implementation failures, the ABC is scientif ically unsuited to the scale and severityof the harms posed […]
Mapping Invasive Alien Plants Through Citizen Science: Shortlisting Species of Concern for the Nilgiris
Shiny Mariam Rehel, R.S. Reshnu Raj, Samuel Thomas, Milind Bunyan, Anita Varghese & Ankila J. Hiremath Journal of Threatened Taxa | November 26, 2023 Species introduced from elsewhere are known as alien species. They may be introduced as crop plants or ornamental plants, or for timber. A small proportion of introduced species can become invasive thereby spreading […]
Tillage agriculture and afforestation threaten tropical savanna plant communities across a broad rainfall gradient in India
Ashish N. Nerlekar, Avishkar Munje, Pranav Mhaisalkar, Ankila J. Hiremath, Joseph W. Veldman Journal of Ecology | November 23, 2023 Across various land-use types—old-growth savannas, tree plantations, tillage agriculture, and agricultural fallows—consistent declines in native species richness and cover were observed, with tillage agriculture showing the most significant changes. The new study by Ashish Nerlekar […]
Even after backfire, Gambusia fish remain popular to beat mosquitoes | Explained
Nobin Raja, G. Ravikanth The Hindu | November 21, 2023 In the last few months, various government and non-governmental organisations in Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, and Punjab have released mosquitofish into local water bodies to address a mosquito menace that locals have complained about. In fact, officials in Visakhapatnam are set to release an additional six […]
Women biologists take centre stage saving forests and wildlife
Mongabay
A new genus and two new species of Braconinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from the Oriental region
Ranjith AP, Priyadarsanan Dharma Rajan Zootaxa | November 18, 2023 A new genus of Braconinae, Pseudorhadinobracon Ranjith & van Achterberg, is described based on the species (P. luteus (Szépligeti) gen. et. comb. nov.) earlier classified under the genus Rhadinobracon Szépligeti. Additionally, the genus Rhadinobracon is newly reported from the Oriental region with the description of two new species from India, R. levigatus Ranjith and R. nitidus Ranjith. […]
A New Species of Army Ant Genus Aenictus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from India
Sahanashree R, Priyadarsanan Dharma Rajan Journal of the Entomological Research Society | November 17, 2023 A new species, Aenictus kadalarensis sp. nov., belonging to the army ant genus Aenictus Shuckard 1840, is discovered from Kerala, India. The species is described based on the worker caste, and it belongs to the Aenictus pachycerus group. This paper provides a detailed discussion of its […]
