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Lakshadweep Coral Reefs: India's Only Atoll System and Why Its Marine Species Are Disappearing Fast

What an Atoll Actually Is, and Why Lakshadweep Is the Only One India HasAn atoll is not a beach with coral nearby. It is a coral structure that built the land itself. The 36 islands of Lakshadweep sit on top of ancient reef platforms that grew upward from submerged volcanic…

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Europe is racing to eradicate a crayfish that can reproduce without mating; in the Czech Republic, two newly detected populations are being targeted before they spread

European conservationists are launching a campaign to eradicate new populations of marbled crayfish, notorious for their rapid reproduction and the deadly diseases they carry. Funded by the European Union, these swift action initiatives aim to tackle invasive species promptly, mitigating the risk of extensive environmental and economic harm while safeguarding…

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Irrawaddy Dolphins of Chilika Lake: India's Rarest Cetacean in Brackish Waters

A Dolphin That Defies Easy ClassificationRoughly 150 Irrawaddy dolphins live in Chilika Lake, making this the largest known population of the species in any single enclosed water body on earth. They are not the acrobatic, open-ocean dolphins of wildlife documentaries. Orcaella brevirostris, the Irrawaddy dolphin's scientific name, has a blunt,…

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How Gujarat Fishermen Started Naming Whale Sharks and Changed Coastal Conservation in India

What the sea brought every winterWhale sharks do not have teeth designed for tearing. Their mouths, which can stretch nearly 1.5 metres wide, filter thousands of litres of seawater every hour, catching nothing larger than a shrimp. Rhincodon typus, the largest fish on Earth, is, in the most literal sense,…

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The Rusty-Spotted Cat Is India's Smallest Wild Feline and Almost Nobody Knows It Exists

Smaller Than Your Kitten, Deadlier Than You'd ExpectThe rusty-spotted cat (Prionailurus rubiginosus) weighs between 0.9 and 1.6 kilograms at full adult size. A domestic cat typically weighs three to five kilograms. This wild feline fits in a human hand and would lose a size comparison to most Indian street kittens.…

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India's Fishing Cat Is Losing Its Bengal Wetlands Faster Than Any Other Habitat

A Cat Built for WaterThe fishing cat, Prionailurus viverrinus, is not a cat that occasionally wades in. It is built for water the way a tiger is built for cover. Its forepaws are partially webbed. Its coat has two layers, a dense, water-repelling undercoat beneath longer guard hairs, so it…

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India's Beloved Mahseer Fish Is Vanishing From Its Rivers and Conservation Is Running Out of Time

A Fish That Held Sacred Status for CenturiesThe golden mahseer, Tor putitora, can grow to over 2.5 metres in length and weigh upward of 54 kilograms, numbers that sound implausible until you see one held up in a black-and-white photograph from the Ramganga or the Cauvery, dwarfing the men around…

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India's Fireflies and Vanishing Species: How Artificial Light Is Erasing Bioluminescence

A Signal System 200 Million Years in the MakingFireflies are not flies. They are beetles, members of the family Lampyridae, and their light is one of the most efficient chemical reactions in biology. The bioluminescence is produced when an enzyme called luciferase catalyses the oxidation of a compound called luciferin,…

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India's Rock Python: Ecology, Mythology, and a Habitat That Is Rapidly Disappearing

The Animal ItselfPython molurus can reach six metres in length and weigh over 90 kilograms. That makes it the largest snake in India and, by mass, one of the four heaviest snakes on Earth, behind only the reticulated python, the green anaconda, and the Burmese python. Adults are unmistakable: a…

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The Indian Skimmer Is One of India's Most Endangered River Birds, Only the Chambal Can Save It

A bill built for one thing, and one thing onlyThe Indian Skimmer (Rynchops albicollis) has a lower mandible that is measurably longer than its upper one, a trait so rare among birds globally that only three skimmer species in the world share it. It flies low over calm water, lower…

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Lesser vs Greater Flamingo: Why India's Sewage Ponds Have Become a Pink Sanctuary

Two birds, one glance, and where the differences actually areStand at the edge of Thane Creek on a winter morning and you will see tens of thousands of flamingos turning the water pink. What you almost certainly won't do, without a field guide and some patience, is correctly sort them…

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Beneath the ocean lie 8,500 forgotten WWII shipwrecks. Many are still filled with oil

Scattered across the ocean floor worldwide are more than 8,500 shipwrecks classified as potentially polluting, most dating back to World War I and World War II, still carrying an estimated 6 billion gallons of heavy fuel oil within their corroding hulls. As these vessels approach or pass the century mark…

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Jim Corbett National Park's Wildlife Goes Far Beyond Tigers: Biodiversity, Birds, and Mammals

The Forest That Existed Before the Tiger Became a SymbolJim Corbett National Park was established in 1936 as Hailey National Park, making it India's first national park. The tigers came with it, but they were never the only reason the Ramganga river valley mattered. The park sits at the foothills…

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India's Largest Wild Bovine Is the Gaur, and Almost Nobody Knows This Massive Forest Giant Exists

The size nobody talks aboutA fully grown male gaur can stand 220 centimetres at the shoulder and weigh up to 1,500 kilograms. That is not a misprint. The gaur, classified as Bos gaurus, is the largest wild bovine on earth, heavier than the American bison, taller than the African buffalo,…

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The Guardian - UK

Shovels for feet and blotting paper skin: the ‘little fat froggy’ facing a fight for survival

The desert rain frog, native to a narrow coastal strip of south-west Africa, has been classified as vulnerable on the IUCN red list, as its habitat is threatened by mining

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Species’ ingenious survival strategies no match for human destruction, red list reveals

Newly endangered animals include desert frogs and snails in extreme ocean depths, both threatened by mining

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The Great Hornbill's Nesting Ritual Is Unlike Anything Else in India's Bird World

A Bird That Walls Itself InThe female great hornbill (Buceros bicornis) does something no other bird in India does during breeding season: she enters a hollow tree, and the pair plasters the entrance shut with mud, droppings, and fruit pulp until only a narrow vertical slit remains. She stays inside…

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Why Vultures Are Irreplaceable Scavengers and What Their Extinction Means for India's Ecosystem

A stomach that kills anthraxVultures have gastric acid with a pH close to 1, among the most corrosive digestive environments measured in any vertebrate. A carcass infected with anthrax, botulinum toxin, or rabies virus passes through that acid and exits neutralised. No other scavenger in India's food web does this.…

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The Economic Times

India restores 21.76 million hectares of deforested land, nears 84 per cent of Bonn Challenge target

India has made significant strides in land restoration. Between 2011 and 2020, over 21 million hectares of degraded land were restored, as reported by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). This achievement brings India close to its 2030 target under the Bonn Challenge. Telangana leads the states in…

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Giving guitarfish a chance: one man’s mission to persuade fishers to farm giant snails instead

Marine biologist Issah Seidu has found a way for Ghana’s fishing communities to earn a living – and help protect the ancient and critically endangered fish species

The Guardian - UK

For sale: one cute baby gibbon – mother probably killed by poachers

Rising demand for exotic pets is pushing many gibbon species to extinction, with their strong family bonds making them especially vulnerable to the brutal trade

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The beloved emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal are now officially endangered. Here’s what can be done

In 1902, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott spotted a large group of large black and white birds at Ross Island, Antarctica. This was among the many milestones of Scott’s famous Discovery expedition: the first breeding colony of emperor penguins.

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Drowned chicks and food scarcity: Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal now endangered

The primary drivers are shrinking sea ice and warming oceans driven by climate change.

International Business Times UK

We Need a 'Wake-up Call': Emperor Penguins Declared Endangered as Sea Ice Loss Turns Deadly

Emperor penguins have been officially declared endangered as Antarctic sea ice loss triggers breeding failures and rising chick deaths. Here's what scientists are warning now.

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Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction

Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice are having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers

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