india.mongabay.comadded August 2026
Mongabay Indiaby Aditi Tandon14d ago
India and Cambodia have postponed a plan to reintroduce Bengal tigers into Cambodia, moving the target from 2025 to 2028 after a review found that the available prey base in the proposed release...
Mongabay Indiaby Mongabay Editor14d ago
- On September 8, five infant orangutans were found in Odisha thousands of kilometres from their native range in Indonesia, raising questions about where they came from, how they got there, and who...
Mongabay Indiaby Priyanka Shankar14d ago
- A new study tested whether the chemical compounds in tiger and leopard urine and scat can reveal information about the animals without capturing them.
Mongabay Indiaby Divya Kilikar15d ago
Ladakh is planning to introduce guided wildlife safaris along snow-leopard trails. Conservationists warn that opening fragile high-altitude wilderness routes to tourists could disturb the species...
Mongabay Indiaby Aditi Tandon15d ago
- Concretisation and repeated excavation are damaging tree roots, weakening their ability to withstand strong winds and heavy rain.
Mongabay Indiaby Aditi Tandon16d ago
Mandvi taluka in Kutch district, Gujarat, received around 177 mm of rain in just eight hours on September 15, causing widespread waterlogging and disrupting normal life.
Mongabay Indiaby Priyanka Shankar16d ago
- Tamil Nadu has emerged as one of India’s most ambitious states for mangrove restoration, amid large-scale plantation drives, growing public investment, and coastal resilience funding.
Mongabay Indiaby Aditi Tandon17d ago
- Bindal Rao and Rispana, two heavily polluted rivers in Dehradun, show a surge in antibiotic resistance genes in the monsoon when heavy rainfall intensifies river pollution by flushing in more...
Mongabay Indiaby Mongabay Editor17d ago
- A study of “giant” trees in India’s Western Ghats finds that sacred groves, forest patches that communities protect, because they believe the trees belong to their gods, hold nearly twice the...
Mongabay Indiaby Kundan Pandey20d ago
- Floods have affected around 5 million people across 15 districts of Bihar, even as the state records a 35% rainfall deficit.
Mongabay Indiaby Mongabay Editor20d ago
- As tiger populations in India grow and disperse beyond protected areas, encounters with people are increasing, prompting repeated capture and relocation operations by the forest department.
Mongabay Indiaby Aditi Tandon20d ago
- Five baby orangutans found abandoned in Odisha’s forest have opened a window into a growing trade in primates, raising questions about India’s role in the international wildlife trade.
Mongabay Indiaby Aditi Tandon21d ago
- The Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled India cannot unilaterally suspend the Indus Waters Treaty, which it had placed in “abeyance” over cross-border terrorism concerns; India rejected the...
Mongabay Indiaby Aditi Tandon21d ago
- A study in Himachal Pradesh mapped the distribution of Galliformes, a group of ground-dwelling birds, and found that a majority of the species fall outside the existing protected areas.
Mongabay Indiaby Aditi Tandon22d ago
A new study of sarus cranes across the agricultural landscapes of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Gujarat found that the birds follow a three-part structure in their duets, loud, coordinated calls...
Mongabay Indiaby Shailesh Shrivastava22d ago
- Many families being displaced by the Ken-Betwa link project in Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh, callege that their names are not included in the compensation list.
Mongabay Indiaby Renuka Kulkarni23d ago
- In 2019, researchers projected that Assam would remain highly vulnerable to parthenium even as its suitable habitat shrank across much of India, a threat now increasingly visible on the ground.
Mongabay Indiaby Aditi Tandon23d ago
Amid increasing climate impacts and a fractured geopolitical order, the BRICS Summit in India underlined the importance of climate resilience in the New Delhi Declaration, along with energy...
Mongabay Indiaby Aditi Tandon24d ago
- Nepal has approached the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage for quick relief following the August 26 floods.
Mongabay Indiaby Priyanka Shankar24d ago
- Researchers rediscovered an endemic plant species Rungia mastersii, in Assam, after 180 years. - British botanist J W Masters had discovered the plant in 1845 and it was named Rungia mastersii...
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