20 articles in this issue
Francesco Nardelli
The Sumatran Rhinoceros is approaching extinction. A few dozen animals remain, dispersed in dwindling Indonesian rainforest with only a few years of likely survival time. Eight rhinos belonging to two subspecies are in controlled breeding cent... see more
Ram C. Kandel, Ram C. Poudel, Amir Sadaula, Prakriti Kandel, Kamal P. Gairhe, Chiranjibi P. Pokheral, Siddhartha B. Bajracharya, Mukesh K. Chalise, Ghan Shyam Solanki
Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve (KTWR) has the last remaining Nepalese population of the Endangered Asiatic Wild Buffalo (Bubalus arnee Kerr, 1792). Individual animals protected inside KTWR may be of purely wild, domestic or hybrid origin, and the wild... see more
Adrian Wansaindor Lyngdoh, Honnavalli Nagaraj Kumara, P.V. Karunakaran, Santhanakrishnan Babu
In this paper we present an updated checklist of mammals found in Meghalaya. Using online databases and search engines for available literature, we provide the scientific names, accepted English names, conservation status as per IUCN Red List, India... see more
Bipin S. Phal Desai, Avelyno H. D'costa, S.K. Shyama
Guard hairs were collected from four live domesticated ungulate species and shed guard hairs of six wild ungulate species from zoo captive animals from five individuals each. Photographic reference was prepared showing analytic features of hair char... see more
Amir Sohail Choudhury, Rofik Ahmed Barbhuiya, Parthankar Choudhury
A concise interpretation of people’s perception and attitude towards wildlife helps in formulating better long-term conservation policies. In an attempt to understand people’s perception, we considered one of the threatened and least known ecosystem... see more
Shraddha Prabhakar Karikar, Subhash Vitthal Mali, Kulkarni Prasad, Aphale Priti
Ujjani wetland is a potential Ramsar site in Maharashtra, India with several satellite wetlands associated with it. The present study contributes to single large or several small habitat conservation theories by assessing wetland... see more
Bed Bahadur Khadka, Ashish Bashyal
Gharials Gavialis gangeticus have been reared in ex situ facilities in the Gharial Conservation and Breeding Center (GCBC) in Chitwan National Park of Nepal since the 1980s. There remains a paucity of detailed information concerning their growth rat... see more
G.K.V.P.T. Silva, W.A.D. Mahaulpatha, Anslem de Silva
Amphibian abnormalities are caused by numerous etiologies prevailing in the environment. Since amphibians are good bio indicators of the environment, amphibian abnormalities are popularly known as a veritable ecological screening tool to assess ecos... see more
Jeewan Singh Jalal
The Botanical Survey of India launched a pilot project during 2015–2017 on exploration of orchids of Goa State covering all the protected areas. A total of 68 orchid species belonging to 28 genera were documented of which 42 are epiphytic and 26 are... see more
Dhareppa Ganager, Gotakanapura Sanjeevamurthy Mamatha, Asoor Muralidhara, Nagappa Lakkundi Jaya, Beechagondahalli Papanna Shivashankar
A study was carried out to determine the efficacy of anthelmintics on gastrointestinal parasites in lions under captivity at Bannerghatta Biological Park (Bengaluru), Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Garden (Mysuru) and Tiger-Lion Safari Tyavarekoppa (Shivamo... see more
Anirban Mahata, Sudheer Kumar Jena, Sharat Kumar Palita
The first record of a butterfly species, the Tamil Treebrown Lethe drypetis todara Moore, 1881 (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) is described from Deomali Hill range of southern Odisha, in Eastern Ghats of India, collected by fruit-baiting. This is the first... see more
Hassan Naveed, Kamran Sohail, Waqar Islam, Zhang Yalin
The tribe Agalliini is reviewed from Pakistan with additional description and illustration of a new record Anaceratagallia pararobusta (Pruthi) 1936. An updated checklist and keys are given to distinguish all the genera and species of the tribe Agal... see more
Rocktim Ramen Das, Vijay Kumar Deepak Samuel, Gautham Sampath, Pandian Krishnan, Purvaja Ramachandran, Ramesh Ramachandran
The Bivalvia family Placunidae Rafinesque, 1815 in India is reviewed in this paper based on previous literature and records. Additionally, the species Placuna quadrangula is described from the Indian sub-continent. Being an economically import... see more
Arun Pratap Singh, Tribhuwan Singh
The present study reports the occurence of Mountain Tortoiseshell, Nymphalis rizana (Moore,1872) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) from the upper Garhwal region of the Western Himalaya after a gap of over 100 years. Earlier records of specimens collec... see more
Ashirwad Tripathy
Collembola are soil builders and they decide the soil health. There are about 9023 species of collembola decribed worldwide and 342 species of 113 genera of 20 families are present in India. Here, the first report of the species Dicranocentroides indica&n... see more
Vishwanath Dattatray Hegde
The paper contains the report of 37 species from Meghalaya under 20 genera belonging to nine tribes of four sub families and taxonomic details, distribution record of the species. Among the reported species, four species, viz: Gonocephalum depressum... see more
Samiran Panday; Vikash Kumar; Sudhansu Sekhar Dash; Bipin Kumar Sinha, Paramjit singh
Codonopsis bhutanica Ludlow, a lesser-known endemic species to central and eastern Himalaya, collected for the first time from Arunachal Pradesh, India. The species was previously known only from Bhutan and Nepal. The species is reported here ... see more
Khilendra Singh Kanwal, Umeshkumar Lalchand Tiwari, Lod Yama, Mahendra Singh Lodhi
Gentiana urnula Harry Sm. (Gentianaceae) was collected from Nagula wetland area of Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh. This species is now considered as new distributional records for the flora of Arunachal Pradesh of India. Detailed description, occurr... see more
E.S.K. Udupa, H.U. Abhijit, K.G. Bhat
Carex phacota, Spreng. Is an least concern species, it is distributed in south and east Asia, Indo-China and Japan. In India it is found in Assam, Meghalaya, Sikkim, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Kerala and Tamilnadu, is reported as a new record for Karnatak... see more
Reviewed by A. Rajasekaran
Compendium of Traded Indian Medicinal PlantsISBN: 978-81-908965-4-2Published by Foundation for Revitalization of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT), Bengaluru, Karnataka 560064, India@ FRLHT 2018 <http://www.frlht.org>