The Western Ghats, also known as the Sahyadri, meaning benevolent mountains, stretches along the western coast of the Indian peninsula, spanning six States: Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka ...

within the Eastern Ghats, starting this fiscal year 2024-25. This expansion aims to replicate the success of the programme in the Western Ghats by promoting holistic development and biodiversity ...

In the Western Ghats, 124 (41 per cent) of the 301 freshwater species assessed face an extinction ... Freshwater species' richness is highest in the tropics, with concentrations in the Amazon basin in ...

Cilantica agasthyaensisis one of the new species included in a new genus of tarantulas from the Western Ghats. | Zeeshan Mirza via Mongabay A researcher described four new species of tarantulas ...

Red Pandas are a rare and endangered species of India. These animals with reddish brown fur and bushy tail are found in the ...

Ecologist Madhav Gadgil warns Western Ghats deterioration has reached a critical point, with landslides increasing tenfold. He blames continued mining and construction, despite his 2011 report ...

Mangaluru: An environmental activist expressed shock over the early onset of forest fires in Western Ghats, despite the region receiving heavy rainfall last year. Instances of forest fires were ...

The first-ever multi-taxon global freshwater fauna assessment for The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has identified Western Ghats as a key location with greatest abundance of threatened ...