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John Goodrich serves as the Chief Scientist for Panthera. He talks about his experiences with tiger conservation. Having spent 27 years as a wild cat scientist, I have been fortunate to run my fingers through the coarse fur of a 170 kg tiger while wrapping a GPS collar around its neck. Even better luck, I’ve lived

As the world searches for solutions to global climate change, tree planting has become increasingly popular, with ambitious reforestation campaigns aiming to plant billions or trillions of trees. These projects often have other environmental goals, too, like regulating water cycles, halting soil erosion and restoring wildlife habitat. They also often have socioeconomic goals, like alleviating

Mangrove forests are a group of woody halophytic floral communities (Hussain & Badola 2003) having the ability to adapt to the extreme transitional zone. They embody divergent habitats between marine and terrestrial environments. Mangroves form one of the most productive ecosystems in the world and are major carbon sinks. (Ribeiro et al. 2019) These ecosystems

In Coimbatore District of Tamil Nadue lies Valparai Shola National Park. Its undulating terrain, filled with the shola grasslands and temperate forests trees, forms the ideal habitat for several animals endemic species. One of them is the Nilgiri marten (Martes gwatkinsii), a member of the taxa which includes badgers and weasels. The Biology of Nilgiri

The information/data conservationists and wildlife scientists produce does have the potential to change the face of conservation and so does effective communication. Having incredible data but no proper way of communication could damage the conservation action plans and indeed perishing wildlife and natural habitats. Communicating conservation research followed by action plans is important to achieve

A poem by Charu Sharma The author Anthony Williams has rightly quoted, “some of the greatest minds on earth live in seas”. And we all are well aware of the cute and cuddly, genius creatures on this planet, the Dolphins!! And when it comes to our national aquatic animal, it is indeed the Gangetic River