In Assam, a centuries-old temple practice is helping attempts to revive an endangered turtle species

The conservationists hope the black softshell turtle’s classification will move to ‘critically endangered’ from ‘extinct in the wild’.

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi

· May 17, 2020 · 01:30 pm

Lakshadweep gets world’s first sea cucumber conservation reserve to curb smuggling into China

Sea cucumbers are crucial to the marine ecosystem, performing similar functions to earthworms in the land ecosystem.

KA Shaji

· May 13, 2020 · 09:30 pm

In India, jackals are being poached for their ‘magical’, non-existent horns

Belief in its powers is driving sales on platforms like Amazon, eBay and Facebook.

Rishika Pardikar

· Apr 26, 2020 · 01:30 pm

A sloth bear rescued from torture is now caught in a tug-of-war between Nepal and Indian activists

Activists’ requests to send the animal from Kathmandu to India has been turned down on grounds that it is Nepali property.

Diwakar Pyakurel, The Third Pole

· Apr 25, 2020 · 01:30 pm

In Rajasthan, unchecked tourism and poaching are threatening leopard habitats

Half of the state’s leopard deaths in 2019 were due to unnatural causes, including man-animal conflict.

Sneha Mahale

· Apr 14, 2020 · 09:30 pm

India is pushing a plan to protect elephants in the wild – but is ignoring animals in captivity

When the Wildlife Protection Act was passed in 1972, an exception was created for elephants in captivity at the time. That’s why 1,687 remain in private hands.

Alok Hisarwala

· Feb 25, 2020 · 09:00 am

Why India’s plan to introduce the African cheetah into its forests is a case of misplaced priorities

The Asiatic cheetah is the only large mammal to go extinct in the country since Independence.

Mayank Aggarwal

· Feb 03, 2020 · 09:30 pm

Bushfire crisis: Australia may list Koalas as ‘endangered’, pledges $50 million for wildlife

Environment Minister Sussan Ley said the koala population has taken an ‘extraordinary hit’ in the ongoing bushfires.

Scroll Staff

· Jan 13, 2020 · 01:51 pm

The Assam State Zoo can teach the rest of India (and the world) a lot about rhino conservation

Decades of experience has led to great success in increasing populations.

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya

· Nov 17, 2019 · 09:30 pm

A Briton chasing moths comes to India: It’s as ‘exciting as watching Tendulkar score a century’

Hailing from a family of entomologists, retired lawyer Mark Sterling is back to his childhood hobby.

Sahana Ghosh

· Oct 13, 2019 · 01:30 pm

Could the upper Himalayas be a new, stable home for tigers in South Asia?

A Global Tiger Forum study has identified two zones of the cool, gentle, sparsely populated Himalayan slopes across Bhutan, India and Nepal for conservation.

Mayank Aggarwal

· Sep 10, 2019 · 09:30 pm

Studying the wild yak droppings may help understand why woolly mammoths and woolly rhinos died out

The modern yak’s dietary diversity in a changing climate, as well as low densities of humans in its Himalayan home, may have helped it survive.

Sahana Ghosh

· Aug 25, 2019 · 09:30 pm