India holds 84 endemic bird species. Some are flourishing. Some are whispers. All of them have something to say about what this country still is and has yet to lose. India has 1,396 species of birds – around 12.4% of…
The Himalayan Forest Thrush is a medium-sized thrush, and Turdidae is the family name for thrushes in general-our familiar Indian robin is a member, as are the orange-headed thrush and the North American bluebirds. Globally, thrushes are among the most…
Wolfs in a factory zone. An unknown cat in the highest peaks of the Himalayas. Leopards found within the concrete sprawl of Delhi. India’s forests are hiding wilder, larger surprises. In India, something like 35 million photos of wildlife lie…
As big as a large squirrel. As agile as a leopard. And virtually nobody knew it was there. Highlights at a Glance: There is a cat in India which most people confuse with a kitten. The animal, which possesses a…
In India lives an animal that virtually no Indians have ever seen, virtually the rest of the world has never heard of, that is being wiped out at a rate that most people tasked with preserving it cannot adequately track.…
Somewhere in the lowland rainforests of northeastern India–in the green maze of Namdapha, or in the rain-swept remoteness of Mizoram, or in a bit of border forest that flows from Manipur to Myanmar–there is a creature, most Indians have never…
The marten, the sole marten of South India, is out there, alive, somewhere in the shola mist. We know so little about it, and that’s another part of the problem. Some animals have loud deaths: their decline noted, debated, televised.…
The Hangul Deer Kashmir’s last red stag is running out of time – and out of forest. There is a valley in the Himalayas, where if you get up before the sun, and steal up into the tree line above…