Western Ghats

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has awarded prominent Indian Environmentalist Madhav Gadgil with the Lifetime Achievement Award. This is the United Nations’ highest environmental honour. Gadgil now joins the …

After severe landslides in Kerala’s Wayanad district, the Centre has released a draft notification proposing to designate 56,825 square kilometres of the Western Ghats as an ecologically sensitive area (ESA). …

It is not necessary that alteration of forests and jungles to other land uses will affect the wildlife it sustains. This came to the fore in the research done by …

It was celebration time at Kerala’s popular Periyar Tiger Reserve as the State Forest Department after a four-day bird survey identified the presence of 231 species of birds of which …

With the aim of protecting its state animal – the Nilgiri Tahr –Tamil Nadu Government has embarked on an ambitious project aiming to restore the original habitat of this stocky …

The discovery of an endemic honey bee in Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot spells well for both the scientific community and livelihood of people in India. Interestingly, the new species has …