Camera trap census places 34 leopards in Guwahati City

India, March 14 -- A camera-trap survey conducted between November 2025 and January 2026 has recorded 34 leopards living within Guwahati city, one of India's fastest-growing urban centres. Researcher... Read More

Hoolock Gibbon electrocuted on a railway track in Assam

India, Feb. 10 -- Less than two years after the National Board of Wildlife (NBWL) approved electrification of a railway line in Assam passing through India's lone ape habitat, Hollongapar Gibbon Wildl... Read More

As 27 workers die in a Meghalaya rat-hole mine, questions being asked about when the illegal practice will stop

India, Feb. 7 -- Twenty-seven miners have been killed and nine injured in a deadly explosion inside an illegal rat-hole mine of Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district, according to the state governme... Read More

Environmentalists wary as PM Modi inaugurates flyover project in Kaziranga

India, Jan. 20 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Kaziranga Elevated Corridor Project on 18 January 2026. It involves four-laning of the existing National Highway 715 (also a part of the ... Read More

How did the National Board for Wildlife approve the Kaziranga elevated corridors and highway expansion?

India, Jan. 20 -- India's wildlife board cleared the Rs 6,950 crore Kaziranga elevated corridor and highway project with 34 conditions The project passes through a Unesco World Heritage Site and dive... Read More