A very early record for Punjab came on May 24, 2025, when birder Manish Ahuja spotted a cuckoo on a power transmission wire ...

A Desert Survivor: Habitat and Distribution The Sanda Lizard thrives in the arid regions of South Asia, specifically the Thar Desert and Kutch in India, and parts of Pakistan, including Sindh's ...

“Sometimes, during the peak season, we report eight-10 cases of poaching in the Thar Desert region per month.” Poaching of the spiny-tailed lizard is not rare in western Rajasthan, especially ...

As a flagship species of the desert ecosystem, the GIB plays a crucial role in its fragile habitat. This herbivorous lizard, found in the Thar Desert, has a distinctive spiky tail and a ...

Located in the Thar Desert, 40 km from Jaisalmer ... saw scaled viper, monitor lizard, krait, etc. There are over 40 species of reptiles in the park. The fauna cover is limited to thorny shrubs ...

Persian gecko; (right) house lizard with a beauteous mosaic ... lives at the rolling edge of the Thar desert. Meena’s boundless empathy for the forgotten, and often despised as “ugly ...

Radheshyam Bishnoi, a 28-year-old conservationist from Rajasthan, rescued wildlife, fought poaching, and built water ponds — ...

Startling best describes his sudden appearance. I had been trudging up and down sand dunes in India’s Thar Desert for nearly two hours and had not seen a soul. Where had the boy come from?

Agama in full colours, Amar Sagar, Jaisalmer (Thar desert). (Shyam Meena) This is precisely the time, as the wise lizard knows, the avian hunters such as falcons, hawks and eagles will have beaten ...