Category: Species in news

World Crocodile Day was celebrated on 17th June. Also 2024 marks 50th year of India’s Crocodile Conservation Project.

Conservation planning for Gangetic dolphin in smaller rivers of the Ganga

Bharal and ibex are major prey of snow leopards whose numbers have recently seen a rebound.

A rare hemi-parasitic terrestrial plant (Phtheirospermum lushaiorum) has been found in Phawngpui National Park of Mizoram.

During forest fires in Mussoorie and Landour, one of the pine cones would catch fire up above and come rolling down and start it all over again.

A Red panda was recently sighted in Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary (Arunachal Pradesh).

Kerala has banned oleander (arali) flowers in temple offerings, after a woman died after accidentally chewing leaves of the oleander plant.

New species of deep-sea isopod discovered from Kerala named after ISRO.

Female right whales may never breed after entanglement in fishing gear, says stydy.

Two mammal species, the binturong and small-clawed otter, were newly found in Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve.

Bugun tribe donates land for critically endangered songbird Bugun Liocichla

Recently, IUCN status of Asiatic lion got recategorized to vulnerable from endangered indicating a positive shift in its conservation status.