The Brahmaputra’s dolphin survey: counting the river’s rarest resident
The Gangetic river dolphin, the blind cetacean that navigates by sound, survives in the Brahmaputra in…
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Assam’s rhino corridor: how a railway is learning to share the park
The railway line that threads through Kaziranga National Park kills animals every year — and the…
The Great Indian Hornbill count: Nagaland’s biggest bird census
The great hornbill — the bird whose silhouette crowns Nagaland’s biggest festival — is the subject…
The Meghalaya state bird rescue: hornbills, power lines and a rehabilitation wing
Meghalaya’s hornbills, the state’s emblem, are dying on power lines at a rate that alarmed even…
The Sikkim butterfly survey: a tiny state’s enormous biodiversity census
Sikkim, the second-smallest state in India, has logged 700 butterfly species — more than any state…
The Manipur sangai’s new hope: a second population in a fenced sanctuary
The sangai — the brow-antlered deer found only on the phumdi of Loktak Lake — has…