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A tigress carries her cub at a zoological park in the northeastern city of Guwahati October 24, 2007. REUTERS/Utpal Baruah

Study Suggests Habitat Loss Is Leading To Inbreeding of Indian Tigers

The study found that several individual tigers in the...

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After 50 Years, the Dhole Comes to Gujarat

Seema Sharma 28/05/2020

Officials attribute the fortuitous turn of events to the...

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Simple Road Maps Show India’s Cities Are Snaking Towards Ecological, Social Chaos

Vasudevan Mukunth 20/01/2020

New roads in Pune, Kolkata, Vijayawada, Coimbatore, Mumbai and...

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Asian Elephants May Lose up to Half Their Habitats by Century’s End: Study

Lakshmi Supriya 02/04/2019

Elephants could lose 42% of the total land available...

Butterflies, however, beat the trend. Credit: Boris Smokrovic/Unsplash

How Cities Are Literally Keeping Animals From Making It Big

Harini Barath 06/06/2018

Animals in warmer places will benefit from being smaller...

A leopard. Credit: malcolmcerfonteyn/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Not Just Tigers, Our Leopards Are in Trouble As Well – and We’re Ignoring Them

Vasudevan Mukunth 06/05/2016

The animals have altogether disappeared from 63% of the...