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Why the Same Railway Tracks Keep Killing Elephants in India

India has roughly 30,000 wild Asian elephants, the largest population outside Africa, and each year trains kill between 20 and 30 of them. The deaths are not spread evenly across the 68,000-kilometre rail network. A handful of track sections, some no longer than a few kilometres, account for a disproportionate…

Times Life · 3h ago

Wildlife Underpasses on Indian Highways: What They Are and Who Uses Them

A camera trap set inside a concrete culvert beneath NH-44 in Madhya Pradesh once captured a tiger padding through at 2 a.m., unhurried, following a scent trail that predated the road above it by centuries. The underpass had been there for three years before the tiger showed up. That gap,…

Times Life · 3h ago

What Dead Animals on Indian Highways Tell Scientists About the Wild

The Carcass as a Data PointA mongoose on NH-48. A star tortoise on the Mysuru-Bengaluru expressway. A wolf spider the size of a palm on a rural district road in Vidarbha. None of these deaths made news. Each one, if recorded with GPS coordinates, a timestamp, and a species ID,…

Times Life · Oct 21

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…

Times Life · Aug 6

World Tiger Day: India now home to 75% of global population

India\'s wild tiger population is estimated to now exceed 3,600, according to the latest government data released on International Tiger Day on Saturday.

The Times of India · Jul 29, 2023

7 days prior to exam, WII nixes 63 percent of job applications on ‘absurd reasons’

A week before the written examination for seven group-A vacancies for scientists at premier Wildlife Institute of India in Dehradun, Bharti Arora’s application was rejected by the institute for lack of “supporting documents” for her experience after PhD. Arora, a staffer at the WII for the past 15 months, then…

Newslaundry · Jul 8, 2023

South African cheetahs arrive to start new lives in India

Continuing New Delhi's efforts to reestablish the variety of the feline population, a group of 12 cheetahs was brought from South Africa last week and put into quarantine enclosures in the Kuno National Park in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.

Radio France Internationale · Feb 26, 2023

Uttarakhand: White landscapes of Gangotri turning green

DEHRADUN: Over 50,000 different types of bacteria found in the deglaciated area of the Gangotri glacier, 92% of which are "unknown" to mankind, have been turning it from white to green, discovered scientists at the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) in a first-of-its-kind study of the Indian side of the…

The Times of India · Jul 24, 2022

India set to be home of cheetahs after 70 years at Madhya Pradesh park

The fastest land animal in the world, declared extinct in the country in 1952, will find a new home in the Kuno-Palpur National Park (KNP) in Sheopur district, said senior forest department official

The Hindu · Jul 17, 2022

Dugong poaching along Tamil Nadu coast a big concern

Researchers from the Dehradun-based Wildlife Institute of India recorded five dugong deaths in the Gulf of Mannar areas in the last 15 days, causing serious concern on the poaching of this highly-endangered marine mammal.

The Times of India · Jun 9, 2022