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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.…

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

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…

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.

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.

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:

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:

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