Indiatimes

Repository with 10k fauna of Western Ghats for students, scientists next yr

Pune: A Western Ghats’ faunal repository housing over 10,000 species like the Bengal monitor lizard and the lion-tailed macaque will come up in Akurdi on the campus of the Zoological Survey of India, ...
Indiatimes

Rare new butterfly species identified in Kodagu’s western ghats hotspot

The newly discovered and described species, Conjoined Silverline (Cigaritisconjucta), from the Western Ghats. Image courtesy: Rohit Girotra/NCBS The team surveyed the Brahmagiri Wildlife Sanctuary ...
The Hindu

Tamil Nadu’s Valparai tops Western Ghats villages for richness of threatened fauna

With 98 species, Tamil Nadu’s Valparai is at the top of the list of 7,630 villages in the Western Ghats in terms richness of threatened species, as per a GIS-based study conducted by biologists of the ...
Deccan Herald

Karnataka’s forest researchers look beyond familiar trails, tail diverse flora, fauna

Karnataka’s forest researchers look beyond familiar trails, tail diverse flora, fauna While more than 85 per cent of the scientific studies are conducted in tiger reserves and the Western Ghats, the ...
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IUCN report flags western ghats as an area of significant concern

In its latest ‘World Heritage Outlook’ report released on October 11, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) – an international organisation working in the field of Nature ...