The latest census puts India’s wild lion population at 891 lions, a 32% increase from 2020. But is it all good news?

By Rhett Ayers Butler Dr. Ajith Kumar, a leading Indian wildlife biologist and educator, passed away on March 1, 2025, in Pachmarhi, Satpura Tiger Reserve while accompanying students on a field trip.

BENGALURU, India — India doubled its tiger population in a little over a decade by protecting the big cats from poaching and habitat loss, ensuring they have enough prey, reducing human-wildlife ...

Dr. Ajith Kumar, a leading Indian wildlife biologist and educator, passed away on March 1, 2025, in Pachmarhi, Satpura Tiger Reserve while accompanying students on a field trip. He was 72.

This is what led her to edit a just-released title, Women In The Wild: Stories of India’s Most Brilliant Women Wildlife Biologists (Juggernaut Books), which documents the work of 13 wildlife ...

Indian wildlife biologist Dr Purnima Devi Barman is among the honourees of this year's Champions of the Earth award, the UN's highest environmental honour, accorded for their transformative action ...

Aran Johnson, a wildlife biologist for the Southern Ute Indian Tribe in the southwestern part of Colorado, walked up a bank to a newly constructed overpass crossing Route 160. He’d been trying ...

Over 60 wildlife biologists have appealed to the Centre to ensure the highest level of legal protection to the rhesus macaques under Schedule 1 of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972.

Nature interviewed 12 female wildlife researchers who say they were harassed while working at conservation organizations in India. Why does the country’s sexual-harassment law sometimes fail to ...

Wildlife biologist Ravi Chellam, who wasn't part of the study, said that while tiger conservation efforts are promising, they need to be extended to other species to better maintain the entire ...

Ravi Chellam, a veteran wildlife biologist involved with lion conservation since 1985, questioned the logic of a methodology that required field staff to stay alert for 24 hours on two full days ...