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Pangolins are one of the most trafficked mammals globally. All eight pangolin species are threatened and poorly studied. India holds the Critically Endangered Chinese Pangolin, Manis pentadactyla and Endangered Indian Pangolin, Manis crassicaudata. Our ongoing study addresses knowledge gaps on pangolin ecology in protected areas of West Bengal. Thi...
In theory, the mandate of The Biological Diversity Act, 2002 of India for the preparation of People Biodiversity Registers (PBRs) by the Biodiversity Management Committees is a participatory process that involves local communities. In practice, the PBR documentation is a hasty process of meeting deadlines where local communities are restricted to h...
Information on the behavioral activities of the critically endangered Chinese Pangolin,
Manispentadactyla is scarce with most of the existing information on activities and life
history coming from captive studies on the species. M. pentadactyla is severely threatened
by illegal trade and habitat loss. Knowledge of its ecology and behavioral activit...
Beyond Protected Areas: A perspective for conservation of mammals in Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya
Northeast India, Eastern Himalaya, has 68% of the total 127 bat species found in India. Of these, over 70 species have taxonomic affinity to Southeast Asian bat species, providing important clues to bat distribution in India. Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya landscape (henceforth DSHL), a component of the Eastern Himalaya, form a significant bat fauna ra...
We report the first camera trap records of two threatened cats, clouded leopard Neofelis
nebulosa and marbled cat Pardofelis marmorata from the socio-ecological landscape
of Sikkim Himalaya. The clouded leopard was photo-captured at 1,263 m on 26
February 2020 and the marbled cat at 2,069 m on 26 April 2020 in Dzongu, North Sikkim,
India. Their occ...
There is now a growing consensus that issues, problems and management of high altitude Indian zoos are seminally different from the low land zoos in India. However, dearth of documented information on various aspects, including that of parasitic infection in animals of high altitude zoos was observed. The present report is a simple attempt to respo...
A region-specific species checklist is an important resource for biodiversity documentation and conservation. This review provides an updated mammal species checklist for the biodiversity hotspots of the Darjeeling-Sikkim landscape in Eastern Himalaya. The list was compiled by systematically reviewing 94 available publications spanning 178 years fr...
Mountains make up 24% of the world’s land area, are home to 20% of the world’s population, provide 60–80% of the world’s fresh water, and harbour 50% of the world’s biodiversity hotspots (well-established). The United Nations recognized the importance of mountain ecosystems, both for conserving biological diversity and for sustaining humanity, in C...
The elusive Red panda, a species that has walked our forests for aeons and captured global imagination, is desperately losing hold of its habitat and endangering its already declining population. Its endearing features and shy curiosity only add to this predicament.
Red panda, Ailurus fulgens is a poorly known Himalayan member of Carnivora which has adapted to a herbivorous diet. The present study conducted in the Singhalila National Park in the eastern Himalayas was initiated to gain information on the ecology and conservation problems of the red panda. Indirect and direct evidence was used to assess its dist...
