Stories

Across Gujarat's forests, a village pond is more than open water. It stores monsoon runoff, can recharge shallow groundwater and supplies livestock. Ponds may…

The status of the spotted eagle-owl in Gujarat's scrublands is not captured by a reliable statewide population figure. This large owl, Bubo nipalensis, is…

Elephant health checks in Gujarat combine veterinary medicine, daily observation and close supervision of the facilities where the animals are housed. The…

Kutch, the vast salt-encrusted peninsula that curves into the Arabian Sea, has long been celebrated for its stark beauty: the white shimmer of the Rann, the…

For more than a decade, leopards in Gujarat have been showing up in places that used to feel safe and predictable. A neighbourhood bus stop, a sugarcane field…

The ecology of the Indian Giant Squirrel in the Dang Forests is shaped by one dominant feature: a multilayered living roof. This endangered, diurnal, arboreal…

Camera trapping has quietly become one of the most reliable windows into the private lives of animals that refuse to be seen. Across rugged terrain where…

Across the rugged peninsular landscape of Saurashtra in western Gujarat, clusters of ancient woodland have survived for centuries not because of formal…

Barda Wildlife Sanctuary sits in the rugged Saurashtra peninsula of Gujarat, a mosaic of dry deciduous forests, rocky outcrops, and rolling grasslands that…

A shy, sandy-coloured bird the size of a small wallaby roams the thorn scrub of western India every winter. The Houbara Bustard has long puzzled ornithologists…