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How the Hoolock Gibbon's Morning Duet Maps Every Inch of Its Forest Territory in India

India's only ape, and most people have never heard of itThe hoolock gibbon holds a distinction no other animal in India shares: it is the country's only ape. Not a monkey, an ape, which means no tail, a larger brain-to-body ratio, and a level of cognitive and social complexity that…

India's Fishing Communities and Dolphins: A Coastal Coexistence Passed Down Through Generations

India's Fishing Communities and Dolphins: A Coastal Coexistence Passed Down Through Generations

The Dolphins That Follow the NetsIn Chilika Lake, Odisha's vast brackish lagoon, Irrawaddy dolphins and fishermen have developed a working rhythm that marine biologists have studied for decades. The dolphins herd fish toward the shore and toward the nets. The fishermen, reading the dolphins' movement, cast at the right moment.…

Assam: HaatiApp to help communities coexist with elephants, reduce conflicts

Assam: HaatiApp to help communities coexist with elephants, reduce conflicts

Elephant deaths highlight struggle between wildlife conservation and development : Read further on Dynamite News:

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Assam: Students, community members collect fodder plant seeds to restore elephant habitats

Aaranyak, a leading research-driven biodiversity conservation organisation, has partnered with local schools and community groups to launch a seed collection drive throughout the Udalguri and Baksa districts of Assam as part of its larger goal of restoration of degraded elephant habitats in the region. Read further on Dynamite News:

Elephant alert! Human-jumbo conflict zones in Assam sport signboards

Human-elephant conflict zones beyond areas adjoining the national parks and wildlife sanctuaries are sporting warning signboards for the first time in Assam. Aaranyak, an Assam-based biodiversity conservation group has put up 12 signboards at strategic locations in the Udalguri, Tamulpur, and Baksa districts to ensure the safe passage of wildlife…

Missing for 42 years, flying squirrel resurfaces in Arunachal

A nocturnal flying squirrel has resurfaced in Arunachal Pradesh after going missing for 42 years.

In Assam, blinking LEDs being used as jumbo deterrents

Efforts to keep wild elephants off human settlements in Assam are riding on a flash of hope - light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs blinking to a rhythmic pattern.

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Reroute railway track running through Assam gibbon sanctuary, suggest scientists

Reroute railway track running through Assam gibbon sanctuary, suggest scientists

Primatologists have suggested rerouting a 1.65-km-long railway track that has divided an eastern Assam Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary dedicated to the western hoolock gibbon into two unequal parts. “The sanctuary has become a ‘forest island’, having lost connectivity with surrounding forest patches. Since gibbons are exclusively arboreal animals inhabiting the forest’s upper…

Catering to an elephant’s diet to prevent conflicts with humans in Assam

Catering to an elephant’s diet to prevent conflicts with humans in Assam

Among the 25,000 saplings of native species of trees planted between June and August in an effort to improve the 100-hectare elephant habitat are some 2,000 sprouts of Alpinia allughus, a ginger-like rhizome locally called ‘tora’. It is an important source of fodder for elephants in the region.

China event raises concern over India’s only ape

China event raises concern over India’s only ape

Global Gibbon Network (GGN) held 1st meet in China to discuss conservation of India’s only ape, hoolock gibbon. Population estimated at 12,000. Threats include felling of trees for infrastructure projects.

Assam: Doloni Beel bird survey records 47 wetland species, 1847 individual birds

Assam: Doloni Beel bird survey records 47 wetland species, 1847 individual birds

The premier research-based biodiversity conservation organisation Aaranyak conducted a bird survey at the Doloni Beel in the Bongaigaon district of Assam in association with the Botany and Zoology Departments, Abhayapuri College and the Aie Valley Forest Division. Read further on Dynamite News:

Elephant Conservation Networks help in human, elephant coexistence in Assam

Elephant Conservation Networks help in human, elephant coexistence in Assam

A novel approach has been adopted to ease the surging human-elephant conflict (HEC) in Assam, the state which harbours the world's second-largest Asian elephant population. Read further on Dynamite News:

Security forces personnel cannot ignore wildlife crime while on security job: judge

Security forces personnel cannot ignore wildlife crime while on security job: judge

Police, border guards, paramilitary forces and Army require coordinated efforts with other stakeholders to check such crime, says Gauhati High Court’s acting Chief Justice

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