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Sharavathi Lion‑Tailed Macaque Sanctuary
Why in news? The Karnataka High Court has ordered the state government to halt all construction and ground activities within the Sharavathi Lion‑Tai...
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Why in news? The Karnataka High Court has ordered the state government to halt all construction and ground activities within the Sharavathi Lion‑Tai...
Why in news? Birdwatchers in Gujarat recently observed a male blue‑and‑white flycatcher on Pavagadh Hill. This small migratory songbird rarely vis...
Why in news? Two large oarfish, sometimes nicknamed “doomsday fish”, were spotted by divers near Cabo San Lucas on Mexico’s Pacific coast in ear...
Why in news? A comprehensive bird survey conducted in Silent Valley National Park in Kerala in February 2026 recorded 192 species, including several m...
Why in news? Access to Gurudongmar Lake in north Sikkim has reopened after being closed for more than two years following a glacier lake outburst floo...
Why in News? Indian entomologists have identified two new species of fruit flies—Acidoxantha paratotoflava and Hemilea suneriae—in the Solan regio...
Why in News? A new scientific study has found that a koala population in Victoria, Australia has regained much of its lost genetic variation thanks to...
Why in news? Tajikistan and Uzbekistan jointly submitted a proposal to include the striped hyena on Appendices I and II of the Convention on Migratory...
Why in news? Forest officials in Chamba district, Himachal Pradesh, reported camera-trap images of sambar deer at elevations above 2,500 metres in the...
Why in news? A tiger in Dudhwa Tiger Reserve, Uttar Pradesh, killed an adult female rhinoceros in early March 2026. The unusual incident was widely re...
Why in news? The Karnataka High Court has issued notices to the Union and State governments on a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the appr...
Why in news? The Karnataka High Court has directed the State government to issue a new notification adding an estimated 55 square kilometres of reserv...
Why in news? Bird watchers in Uttarakhand recently spotted a pair of dusky eagle owls in the Phato tourism zone of the Terai West forest division. The...
Why in news? Ichthyologists have described two new species of freshwater fish—Glyptothorax sentimereni and Oreichthys elianae—from the tributaries...
Why in news? Scientists have described a new species of Asian grass lizard, Takydromus ultapanensis, from the Ultapani Reserve Forest within Assam’s...
Why in news? For more than two decades, residents of Mudh village in eastern Ladakh have been protecting the ruddy shelduck that visits their high‑a...
Why in news? Researchers at Nagaland University recently highlighted the genetic richness of Musa sikkimensis, a wild banana species, and its value fo...
Why in news? Assam’s Agriculture Minister recently flagged off the first export consignment of Geographical Indication (GI)‑tagged Karbi Anglong g...
Why in news? A research team working in Silent Valley National Park, part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve in the Western Ghats, has discovered two pr...
Why in news? World Wildlife Day is observed each year on 3 March. On this occasion Prime Minister Narendra Modi reaffirmed India’s commitment to wil...