India’s Tiger Reserves Just Got a New Global Financing Partner — Here’s What the IBCA-ADB Deal Means
India is home to roughly 75% of the world’s wild tigers — a fact that gets repeated often enough that […]
Biodiversity
India Just Took Its Snow Leopard Science to Moscow — Here’s Why That Matters for 718 Big Cats
On 26 August 2026, a small Indian delegation sat down with counterparts from Russia’s Academy of Sciences in Moscow to
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
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