This Himalayan treasure helped over 200 families earn lakhs while protecting 100 sq km of forestA wild Himalayan spice known as Khagi is transforming lives in Arunachal Pradesh. Indigenous communities are using the native spice to gene...
01 Aug, 2026, 10.42 AM IST
In 1935, the United States began planting 220 million trees from Texas to Canada to stop the Dust Bowl, creating 18,600 miles of living windbreaks by 1942Giant dust storms ravaged the American Great Plains during the 1930s. President Franklin D. Roosevelt initiated a massive tree planting pro...
25 Jul, 2026, 05.26 PM IST
Scientists discover new glow-in-the-dark mushroom species in Mexico's cloud forests: Here's why they glowMexico's cloud forests are home to newly discovered bioluminescent fungi, some species entirely new to science. These glowing mushrooms, be...
04 Jul, 2026, 06.56 PM IST
This legendary jungle hunter stayed hidden for a decade, until one camera captured the impossibleJaguar spotted in Honduras: A hidden camera in Honduras's Sierra del Merendón mountains has captured a remarkable sight: a male jaguar, uns...
26 Jun, 2026, 06.06 PM IST
India’s most secretive big cat, Clouded leopard caught on camera. Viral video of rare animal stuns the internetA rare video of a clouded leopard mother with her cubs went viral. Susanta Nanda, a retired IFS officer, shared the clip. Clouded leopards ...
06 Aug, 2025, 07.54 AM IST
3 new species of 'archaic' snake discovered in Ecuador's graveyards, churchesThese ground snakes are the most species-rich snake genus in the world (there are now 150 species known globally), but few people have seen...
23 Sep, 2022, 10.28 AM IST
Traveller’s Diary: Binsar, A Remote, Sleepy Hill StationBinsar, a remote, sleepy hill station and wild life sanctuary at the top of Jhandi Dhar hills in Uttaranchal is nature lovers' paradise.
04 Sep, 2017, 04.06 PM IST
- Proposal for Mangar Bani forest demarcation
City-based environmentalists have welcomed the forest department’s move to suggest the state government to demarcate 1943 acres of land in ...
04 Feb, 2016, 11.26 AM IST
Kanpur Zoo set to soon welcome new animalsSoon the visitors to the Allen Forest (Kanpur zoo) will get a chance to see fox and clouded leopard.
20 Sep, 2015, 02.45 PM IST
Rarely seen clouded leopard photographedOne of the most elusive cats in the world, the clouded leopard, has been photographed in North Bengal's Buxa Tiger Reserve.
03 Aug, 2014, 05.32 AM IST
- Rare animals sighted in Pakke Tiger Reserve
Four rare melanistic (black) golden cats (Captopuma Temminckii) and rare Chinese pangolins were sighted at Pakke Tiger Reserve in East Kame...
25 Dec, 2013, 03.42 AM IST
Concerted effort for conservation of rainforests urgedoncerted efforts are the needed to conserve the rich contiguous rainforest patch of Dihing-Patkai wildlife Sanctuary and its adjoining Uppe...
21 Nov, 2013, 05.42 PM IST
Plight of animals turn poacher into conservationist in AssamMaheswar Basumatary was forced into poaching animals in the 90s when as a 19-year-old he faced the daunting prospect of supporting his fami...
25 Jul, 2013, 01.36 PM IST
How to arrest forest degradationThe policy process to arrest forest degradation needs to be modernised with up-to-date techniques & civil society participation that is tim...
12 May, 2012, 05.44 AM IST
- Jairam Ramesh’s actions arbitrary?
Environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh’s unfettered run faces a few hurdles as concern mounts that some of the ministry’s decisions.
06 Feb, 2011, 06.42 AM IST
- Declining tiger population, encroachment at Namdhapa Park
Declining tiger population and encroachment at the Namdapha National Park, the only one in the world to have four species of big cats, in A...
20 Aug, 2010, 05.40 PM IST
- Sanctuary breeding endangered clouded leopards
The endangered clouded leopard seems to have got a new lease of life in the Sipaheejala Sanctuary which has witnessed two births annually o...
19 Jan, 2009, 03.47 PM IST