How ‘Guptaji’ aka Ashok Kumar helped pull off India’s largest seizure of tiger and leopard skins

Remembering the tireless conservationist on his 84th birth anniversary.

Vivek Menon

· Aug 17, 2019 · 11:30 am

Tamilian Warrior: The butterfly that has been elevated to a state symbol

Butterflies are great bio-indicators: their presence, patterns and migration assist in mapping the climatic health of a region.

Vasudevan Sridharan

· Aug 13, 2019 · 09:30 pm

As tiger numbers rise in India, here are five critically endangered species that need protection

The country is home to 682 animal species categorised as critically endangered, endangered and vulnerable.

Vijayta Lalwani

· Jul 31, 2019 · 06:30 am

Assam: Tiger takes refuge in house near Kaziranga, stranded by floods

Wildlife experts said the tiger has to traverse a road to reach the forest again.

Scroll Staff

· Jul 18, 2019 · 11:23 pm

How should the world respond as Japan resumes commercial whaling after 30 years?

Tokyo claims it had never intended to stop but to simply wait until whale populations recuperated.

Sui Phang and Peter Bridgewater, The Conversation

· Jul 08, 2019 · 11:30 pm

Mumbai: Two men arrested for possession of ‘whale vomit’ worth Rs 1.7 crore, say police

Ambergris or ‘whale vomit’ is a wax that is produced in the digestive system of sperm whales and is used to make perfumes.

Scroll Staff

· Jun 19, 2019 · 12:42 pm

Binny, India’s only orangutan, dies at 41 in Odisha’s Nandankanan Zoological Park

The ape was brought to the Odisha zoo in November 2003, when she was 25 years old, from the Rajiv Gandhi Zoological Park in Pune.

Scroll Staff

· May 31, 2019 · 10:34 am

Malaysia’s last male Sumatran rhinoceros dies at 30

The Sumatran rhino was declared extinct in the wild in Malaysia in 2015.

Scroll Staff

· May 28, 2019 · 12:14 pm

Why wildlife scientists want to transport wild buffaloes from Assam to Chhattisgarh

After the monsoon this year, five wild buffaloes will be transported from Manas National Park to Udanti Wildlife Sanctuary, 1500 km away.

Arunabh Saikia

· May 08, 2019 · 07:30 am

As India’s dholes face decline, scientists say more research is needed to frame conservation plans

New study finds that distribution of the Asiatic wild dog in the Western Ghats is shrinking.

Garima Prasher

· Apr 29, 2019 · 01:30 pm

India’s little-studied sea snakes are under threat. New research hopes to change that

An inventory of marine snakes reported a total of 26 species in India.

Manupriya

· Mar 25, 2019 · 01:30 pm

With love and some cardboard, villages in Assam are helping save the house sparrow

After a 2009 survey showed rapid decline of the sparrow population, a scientist came up with a low-cost solution.

Kasturi Das

· Mar 19, 2019 · 01:30 pm