The pilot release in Jaisalmer moves India’s bustard programme from breeding to rewilding; 97 birds are in care and 11 are earmarked for release.

Satellite tags on 10 turtles have produced 1,748 days of data, showing how males and females move differently once they leave Odisha’s beaches.

Camera-trap surveys across the Similipal-Satkosia landscape show leopards thriving where deer and other large prey remain, and vanishing where they do not.

The second Census of Water Bodies shows a 16.19 per cent drop since 2017-18, with small village ponds the hardest hit and urban counts also lower.

After months in a rewilding tunnel, the birds head to Desert National Park, where scientists will track whether captive breeding can rebuild the wild population.

The World Bank-assisted project targets dried-up lakes in Bengaluru and five other districts, while researchers say real recovery means more than desilting.

A three-year-old tigress from Bihar’s Valmiki reserve now roams Buxa’s core zone, the first step in a phased plan to rebuild a breeding population.

Ten birds trained in a rewilding tunnel are due to be freed in Jaisalmer on 3 and 4 October, as a new assessment puts the wild population near 130.

The government says its Green Legacy drive has passed its 50-billion target, while researchers say long-term survival of the trees is still being established.