wildlife

On night patrol in Sri Lanka’s human-elephant conflict zone

Hambantota in Sri Lanka has been on the frontline for human-elephant conflict for years. 2022 was the worst year yet, with a death toll of 433 elephants and 145 people

| Mar 03, 2023

Adventures of a wildlife biologist

Why were lion-tailed monkeys the object of hatred among planners in Tamil Nadu and Kerala?

| Jul 19, 2018

Oiled sanctuary

Why the Sundarban oil spill was a disaster waiting to happen.

Wild frontier: Valmiki-Chitwan-Parsa

Shouldn’t the tigers of a trans-boundary Nepal-Bihar forest area be given dual citizenship, so that they are protected on both sides?

| Nov 01, 2005

Dolphin of the Ganga

Once the susu was found along the entire stretch of the Ganga system in the plains, but now it is limited to pockets where the flow is large and pollutants sufficiently diluted.

| Oct 01, 2002

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