Wildlife

In Bandhavgarh’s fringe villages, where tiger attacks and forest fires are a painful reality, children are emerging as unexpected conservation leaders. Led by conservationist Bhavna Menon through Prakriti Ki Pathshala and the ‘Junior Fire Watchers’, students are counselling families, preventing fires, and spreading awareness door-to-door.

When a story by The Better India met the right reader, it opened a door inside a remote tiger reserve in Chhattisgarh. One call linked DFO Varun Jain with Earth Brigade Foundation, and together they began moving water, light and hope across a landscape that needed all three.

Uttar Pradesh’s sarus crane, once seen as a pest and pushed out by shrinking wetlands, is finding its way back—thanks to farmers who now protect its nests and habitats. Through the Sarus Habitat Securement Project, villages across 10 districts are reviving the bird’s population and restoring crucial wetlands.

This unique conservation programme sees the coming together of the Bishnoi community, forest officials, and wildlife teams to ensure the survival and thriving of the Godawan, the Great Indian Bustard.

Across wells, forests, sanctuaries and even a school storeroom, ordinary people stepped up when wildlife needed them most. These five rescues from 2025 show how calm hands, quick thinking and compassion helped keep India’s wild heart beating.

From Ranthambore National Park to Panna Tiger Reserve, wildlife can’t exist in silos. Co-existence is crucial. And here are homestays that are ensuring travel does not come at the expense of the wild.

With his camera as his voice, Mike Pandey’s 'Shores of Silence' stirred a nation’s conscience and secured the whale shark’s future in Indian waters.

Giraffes drift through the night in short bursts of rest, staying alert in landscapes filled with movement and sound. Their unusual sleep rhythm reveals a side of these gentle giants that most of us never notice.

Step into a place where elephants, lions and penguins stand tall without taking a breath. At Noida’s Jungle Trail, more than 650 metal animals turn discarded waste into a living landscape, inviting families to wander through zones that feel alive in their own gentle way.

This World Wildlife Conservation Day, we explore the story of snow leopards and humans learning to share spaces in the highlands of Sikkim. Behind it is a group of local volunteers who routinely assess and study rangeland health.