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Shark & ray meat consumption no longer restricted to India’s tribal & coastal peoples: Paper

Tourists and middle- & upper-class domestic consumers emerging consumption classes for elasmobranch meat

Three cheetah cubs born at Kuno National Park, second litter since arrival

Cubs were likely born around a week ago

Simply Put: Broken Covenant

Book Excerpt: The Peepal, a tree sacred to Hindus, Buddhists and Jains of the Subcontinent

The peepal is native to India and other countries of south and southeast Asia; its cultural importance is immense in these areas, writes V Sundararaju

Cautious cats: Africa’s lions changing behaviour, skipping high density human areas to avoid conflict

Human-lion conflicts may increase due to shrinking lion habitat, lack of food availability, warns study

Elephant teeth: How they evolved to cope with climate change-driven dietary shifts

20 million years ago, proboscidean teeth looked completely different

The secret world of rhododendrons: A plant more ancient than the Himalayas

Rhododendrons have a history intertwined with poison, medicine and folklore.

Can animals give birth to twins?

Twins are defined as two offspring from the same pregnancy

They sense electric fields, tolerate snow and have ‘mating trains’: 4 reasons echidnas really are remarkable

Echidnas are even more mysterious and unusual than commonly assumed.

How robust is India’s tiger census?

Government officials and independent experts help decode the riddle of tiger estimation

Simply Put: Biological Diversity (Amendment) Bill

Penguin paradise and geological freak: Why Macquarie Island deserves a bigger marine park

The island is a subantarctic environment crucial for seabirds marine mammals

Extinction threat: Vaquita porpoise global population down to only 10

The species saw a 98% decline in population in 2 decades

Geneva meet concludes with progress on ‘Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework’ for CoP15

CoP15 was to be held in Kunming, China in 2020 but will now be held in August this year

Facebook posts lead to leopard skin seizure, arrests near Similipal

Fifteen leopards have died in Odisha in the last 3 years; 5 were poached

Sharp decline in India’s donkey population might be due to Chinese demand: Brooke Hospital for Animals

The number of donkeys in India decreased by over 60% in a decade