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India's Most Common Wild Cat Is the Jungle Cat, and You've Probably Mistaken It for a Stray

The cat nobody recognisesThe jungle cat has no spots, no dramatic rosettes, and no interest in being noticed. It is a plain, tawny-grey animal with a short tail, faint striping on the legs, and small tufts on the tips of its ears. That description sounds, to most people, exactly like…

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India's Terai Grasslands Are Vanishing, And Taking Species Found Nowhere Else With Them

A Strip of Land That Shouldn't ExistThe terai is a geographical accident. Where the Himalayan rivers slow down and drop their sediment load onto the plains, they created a belt of waterlogged grasslands, sal forests, and oxbow lakes stretching from Uttarakhand through Bihar and into the lowlands of Nepal. It…

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India's Last Gharial Stronghold: Why the Chambal River Saved a Crocodilian No Other River Could

A Crocodilian Built for One Thing, Destroyed by Everything ElseThe gharial's jaw is so narrow it cannot eat anything larger than a fish. Gavialis gangeticus evolved that way over millions of years, a specialist so refined it cannot pivot. That specialisation is also why it collapsed so fast when India's…

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Project Crocodile: How India Saved Three Species From Extinction Through Conservation

Three Species, One CrisisBy the early 1970s, India had hunted and farmed its crocodilians to the edge of disappearance. The mugger (Crocodylus palustris), found across freshwater lakes and rivers from Rajasthan to Odisha, had been slaughtered for its skin. The saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), the largest living reptile on Earth,…

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Rohu: India's Most Beloved Freshwater Fish Has a Surprisingly Complex Role in River Ecosystems

The fish everyone eats, almost nobody studiesLabeo rohita, rohu, is the single most cultured freshwater fish in India by volume, accounting for a significant share of inland aquaculture production alongside catla and mrigal in the IMC (Indian Major Carp) system. It grows fast, tolerates crowded ponds, and takes to supplementary…

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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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Why Bharatpur's Keoladeo Wetland Is the Heartbeat of India's Painted Storks Nesting Colony

What the Painted Stork Actually IsMycteria leucocephala, the painted stork, carries one of the more misleading common names in Indian ornithology. It is not a true stork in the classical Ciconia sense but belongs to the genus Mycteria, a group of wading birds whose feeding technique sets them apart from…

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The Dalit revolutionaries from Chambal’s ravine

“Beehad mein baaghi hote hain, dakait milte hain parliament mein (The ravines have rebels; the bandits are in parliament).”

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Madhya Pradesh: Malkhan’s wife elected sarpanch unopposed, hails ‘woman power’

BHOPAL: Lalita Rajput, wife of former dreaded dacoit of the Chambal ravines Malkhan Singh, has been elected sarpanch unopposed by villagers in Guna district of Madhya Pradesh.

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Rajasthan: ‘World’s largest bell’ riverfront project on Chambal draws flak from public

JAIPUR: A temporary unit set up to cast an 84,000kg swinging bell on the banks of Chambal river as part of the riverfront project in Kota has drawn flak from environmentalists, residents and politicians.

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