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Why in News? Botanists from the University of Calicut and the Botanical Survey of India have described a new species of flowering plant from the Weste...
Why in News? A study by the Wildlife Institute of India has documented a breeding population of barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) living year‑round in...
Why in News? Herpetologists from the Zoological Survey of India and collaborating institutions have described a new species of leopard gecko from the ...
Why in News? The United Nations convened its 21st session of the Forum on Forests in New York, during which it released the Global Forest Goals Report...
Why in News? For the first time, a male Western Hoolock Gibbon was documented crossing specially constructed canopy bridges over a railway line in the...
Why in News? Chaprala Wildlife Sanctuary in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district has attracted attention for two reasons: plans to ensure that the prop...
Why in News? On Endangered Species Day 2026, conservationists released the first satellite‑tagged Ganges soft‑shell turtle in Kaziranga National P...
Why in News? A rare sighting of the Common bronzeback tree snake (Dendrelaphis tristis) occurred in the Belrayan range of Uttar Pradesh’s Dudhwa Tig...
Why in news? During a biodiversity survey on 9 May 2026, researchers photographed a Himalayan brown bear sow with two cubs in the Rakchham‑Chitkul W...
Why in news? Scientists have found that cacti, despite being slow‑growing desert plants, diversify remarkably fast. A study of their evolution shows...
Why in news? The Jharkhand government has prepared a proposal to set up India’s first dedicated human–elephant conflict research centre in the Pal...
Why in news? Zoologists from the Zoological Survey of India have discovered two new species of spiders in Nagaland. Named Psechrus ntu and Psechrus ph...
