India Just Published Its First Guide to Grasslands — Because for Decades, We Called Them “Wasteland”
For most of modern India’s administrative history, if a piece of land had no trees on it, it was written […]
Biodiversity
India Just Got a Conservation Plan for a Cat Most People Have Never Seen
Most of India’s marquee wildlife conservation stories revolve around a small cast of famous, camera-ready species: tigers, elephants, rhinos, snow
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A Buffalo Farmer in Haryana Just Got Paid for India’s Biodiversity — Here’s How That System Works
Somewhere in Haryana, a family that has spent generations breeding Murrah buffalo — one of the country’s most valuable dairy
Why a Quiet Meeting in Delhi Could Decide What India Eats a Century from Now
Somewhere inside a climate-controlled vault at the ICAR–National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources in New Delhi sit roughly half a
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India Just Signed a Deal to Protect Rare Medicinal Plants — And Make Sure Tribal Communities Actually Benefit From It
For decades, the pattern in India’s biodiversity research has been depressingly familiar: scientists document a plant that tribal communities have
India Wants to Replace Aluminium Packaging With Something Grown, Not Mined
Most conversations about sustainable packaging in India centre on plastic — bans, alternatives, extended producer responsibility. A new partnership signed
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440 Animals, 15 kg of Ivory, 33 Arrests: Inside India’s Latest Crackdown on Wildlife Trafficking
On July 10, officers of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence intercepted a group near Sujangarh, Rajasthan, and recovered about 11
India’s New Centre of Excellence on Human-Wildlife Conflict Could Change How We Share Space With Wild Animals
In the forest villages of Uttarakhand, a leopard enters a house at night and injures a child. In Karnataka’s coffee
India Is Spending Rs 3,000 Crore to Save 15,000 Sacred Groves — and Doubling Down on Mangroves
India is about to spend Rs 3,000 crore over five years to restore something most people don’t know the country