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Asiatic Lion Population 2025
Why in news? The 16th census of the Asiatic lion population, released in 2025, reports an increase in the number of lions in and around Gujarat’s Gi...
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Why in news? The 16th census of the Asiatic lion population, released in 2025, reports an increase in the number of lions in and around Gujarat’s Gi...
Why in News? The Great Barrier Reef has experienced its largest decline in coral cover in nearly four decades, largely due to severe coral bleaching, ...
Why in News? The Maharashtra Chief Minister held talks with the team running the Vantara wildlife centre after public controversy over the relocation ...
Why in news? Marine biologists recently identified Vibrio pectenicida, a bacterium, as the agent causing sea star wasting disease (SSWD), which has de...
Why in news? A synchronised survey conducted in early 2025 across Tamil Nadu and Kerala found that the population of the Nilgiri tahr, Tamil Nadu’s ...
Why in news? New data released in August 2025 show significant shifts in India’s pesticide sector. Insecticides, herbicides and fungicides dominate ...
Why in news? On 5 August 2025, Haryana launched the 750‑acre Matri Van project in Gurugram’s Aravalli hills to restore degraded forest and create ...
Why in news? Ten critically endangered Asian giant tortoises were released into the Zeliang Community Reserve in Nagaland in August 2025 as part of a ...
Why in news? In August 2025, the Supreme Court ruled that Pollution Control Boards (PCBs) can impose restitutionary damages on polluters under the Wat...
Why in news? A study by the Wildlife Institute of India reported exceptionally high bird mortality rates around wind farms in Rajasthan’s Thar Deser...
Why in news? In July 2025 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an advisory opinion in response to a request from several small island state...
Why in news? Growing climate pressures, geopolitical uncertainties and India’s ambition for energy self‑reliance have intensified calls for next�...
Why in news? The Organisation for Economic Co‑operation and Development (OECD) released a forecast warning that plastic use and waste in the ASEAN P...
Why in news? The silver‑backed chevrotain, a species of mouse deer thought to be extinct for more than three decades, was sighted again in southern ...
Why in news? India has launched large‑scale mangrove restoration projects in Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Mumbai as part of its efforts to build natural...
Why in news? Reports from Gujarat in late July 2025 indicated that three Asiatic lion cubs had died in Amreli district, and several others were under...
Why in news? On Global Tiger Day 2025, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change released a report titled “Status of Small Cats in Tige...
Why in news? At the 15th Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, held in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, on 30 July 2025...
Why in news? Researchers reported that glaciers on Mount Cilo in southeastern Turkey have lost nearly 50% of their ice cover over the past four decade...
Why in news? Kaziranga Tiger Reserve in Assam was reported to have the third‑highest tiger density in India in 2024, following Bandipur in Karnataka...