As forests disappear in India, leopards have learnt to live and prey among human habitats

Researchers are tracking leopard attacks on livestock to map sites of man-animal conflict.

Sahana Ghosh

· Aug 04, 2020 · 01:30 pm

Rare yellow turtle spotted in Odisha’s Balasore district

A wildlife warden said he had never seen anything like it before.

Scroll Staff

· Jul 20, 2020 · 11:48 am

Karnataka: Black panther spotted in Nagarhole National Park

This came after two photographs of a black panther went viral on social media.

Scroll Staff

· Jul 07, 2020 · 12:35 pm

Kerala could have avoided the deaths of two elephants if it learnt to kill wild boar scientifically

Farmers often use cable wires, neem cakes, bamboo fencings, fish nets and firecrackers to illegally fight the porcine menace.

KA Shaji

· Jun 14, 2020 · 01:30 pm

Goa’s tiger deaths must be understood through its local politics and anti-conservation history

Last month, the death of four tigers at Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary was met with nationwide uproar.

Pamela D’Mello

· Feb 14, 2020 · 08:30 pm

‘We must realise that man-animal conflict threatens our existence’: Meet Assam’s Elephant Doctor

Kushal Konwar Sarma was recently awarded the Padma Shri for his services over the past three decades.

Nabarun Guha

· Feb 10, 2020 · 07:30 pm

Smiling chimpanzees on Instagram are not cute – they are under stress and often mistreated

What happened to the chimpanzee from The Wolf of Wall Street? He is now in a roadside zoo, forced to perform circus tricks.

Zara Bending, The Conversation

· Jan 12, 2020 · 11:30 pm

What Australia’s bushfires mean for the country’s most enduring tourism icon – the Koala

A study suggests that koala tourism is worth at least AUD 3.2 billion to the Australian economy and accounts for 30,000 jobs.

Kevin Markwell, The Conversation

· Jan 07, 2020 · 09:30 pm

For the first time, a new frog has been discovered in Jharkhand and Bihar region

The tiny Magadha Burrowing Frog has been observed in farm fields, which proves that previously ignored agroecosystems are also hubs of scientific interest.

GBSNP Varma

· Sep 16, 2019 · 08:30 pm

In Assam, a beloved wandering rhino was killed and the forest department tried to ‘hush it up’

Eight months after a rhino wandered out of its sanctuary, forest officials lost track of it. Then it was found dead.

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya

· Sep 16, 2019 · 01:30 pm

A forest in the Western Ghats is helping scientists understand how malaria spreads in birds

The spread of the infection disease has been hastened by climate change.

TV Padma

· Sep 13, 2019 · 08:30 pm

Grey, cinnamon, black: The many colours of the Asiatic golden cat in Arunachal Pradesh

Hidden cameras placed in Dibang Valley recorded six coat colours of the Asiatic golden cat.

Shreya Dasgupta

· Jun 26, 2019 · 08:30 pm