5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (184+ words) “A flagship species of Himalayan conservation, snow leopards are key to preserving an austere, delicate ecosystem,” the book says. It has taken Suryawanshi 20 years to study the ‘ghost of the mountains,’ distributed in mountainous terrain of 12 countries that straddle the…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (673+ words) A 12-year study conducted between 2010 and 2022 confirmed that no tigers live permanently in Kawal. Using systematically placed line transects to monitor prey numbers, researchers found that spotted deer populations grew over the decade, while sambar, nilgai, and chousingha populations remained…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (290+ words) “Predation is a fundamental ecological process that shapes community structure and ecosystem functioning,” says Gopika Viswan, a researcher at the Ecology Lab, Central University of Kerala and the study’s co-author, adding that “Changes in predation can trigger strong ecological consequences,…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (642+ words) The authors also examined the economic value of individual services and found that India’s forests provide provisioning, regulating and cultural services worth about $9.64, $12.15 and $17.17 billion, respectively, every year. Supporting services were not analysed in the study. While there is a…...