the Western Ghats are a mountain range, spread over 1600 km in western India. Stretching north to south along the western edge of the Deccan plateau it is also called the ‘Great Escarpment of ...

The first-ever multi-taxon global freshwater fauna assessment for The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has identified Western Ghats ... says Rajeev Raghavan, South Asia Chair, IUCN Freshwater ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thailand also has the advantage of occupying a key zoogeographical position with a snail fauna ranging from Indo-Himalayan to the north and west to Malaysian in the south ... the western margins of ...

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 ...

Four new species of tarantulas, including one new genus, have been described from India’s Western Ghats mountains. A concerning trend shows that 25% of newly described tarantula species since ...

For their project ‘Ears to the ground’, musicians Krishna Jhaveri and Sanaya Ardeshir travelled through the Western Ghats recording natural sounds from the wild and interviewing people living ...