DECEMBER 2025 -
* ATYOPSIS SPINIPES, The BAMBOO Shrimp Has Been Re Discovered In Karnataka And Odisha After 72 Years.
* a Horn Eyed Ghost Crab In News in Vishakapatnam.
* RESEARCHERS FROM ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA (ZSI) HAVE DISCOVERED TWO NEW SPECIES OF JUMPING SPIDER IN MEGHALAYA.
* ASEMONEA DENTIS
* COLYTTUS NONGWAR ( NAMED AFTER NONGWAR VILLAGE IN MEGHALAYA)
* FAMILY BELONGS TO SALTI IDAE
* THIS IS THE HOST ONLY THIRD SPECIES UNDER THIS GENUS (ASEMONEA)
* * A NEW ROCK GECKO SPECIES HAS BEEN DISCOVERED BY ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA (ZSI) TEAM AT EASTERN GHAT ( KA DHAMAL), ODISHA.
* SPECIES NAME - KALINGA ROCK GECKO ( HEMIDACTYLUS KALINGA)
* GENUS - HEMIDACTYLUS
* SCIENTISTS SAID THIS IS 2ND ENDEMIC HEMIDACTYLUS SPECIES IN ODISHA
* THIS SPECIES HAS OLIVE BROWN BODY
* THREE New Moth Has Been Discovered At Himalaya
- SPECIES Name - GELECHIA ADI
- GELECHIA BILOBUNCUSA
- ISTRIANIS IADAKHENSIS
- NAMED AFTER - Adi Tribe Of Himalaya
* Indian RESERCHERS Have REDISCOVERED RANUNCULUS TRICHOPHYLLUS, a Rare Cold Water Aquatic Herb At Wetland Of Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh.
* RESEARCHERS HAVE FOUND A NEW SNAKE HEAD FISH SPECIES IN THE RI - BHOI DISTRICT IN MEGHALAYA
* SPECIES NAME - CHANNA BHOI
* IT IS DISTINGUISHED BY IT'S UNIQUE COLOURATION ( A BLUSIH GREY BODY)
* 8-9 BROKEN HORIZONTAL LINES
* THE SPECIES EPITHET BHOI HONOURS THE INDIGENOUS BHOI COMMUNITY ( OF MEGHALYA HILL)
* SCIENTISTS FROM ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA ( ZSI) HAVE DISCOVERED A NEW SPECIES OF COLLEMBOLA COMMONLY KNOWN AS SPRINGTAILS.
* IN EASTERN HIMALAYA, SIKKIM
* SPECIES NAMED - NEELUS SIKKIMENSIS
ENVIRONMENT -
* 70 Butterfly Species Recorded In Last Two Years
* Praveen Shaikh Has Win The WILDLIFE Service Award 2025
* Anant Ambani Recived The Global Humane Society ANIMAL Welfare Award
* SUPRIYA SAHU, ADDITIONAL CHIEF SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT OF TAMILNADU HAS RECEIVED THE UN CHAMPION OF THE EARTH AWARD 2025
* FOR HER CONTRIBUTION IN SUSTAINABLE COOLING & ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION.
* Farasan Islands Of Saudi Arabia Became The First RAMSAR Sites Notified.
* LAIN DOUGLAS HAMILTON PASSED AWAY
BORN IN - 16TH AUGUST 1942
DIED ON - 08TH DECEMBER 2025
* HE WAS A SCOTTISH ZOOLOGIST, FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY,
* IN 1993 HE FOUNDED SAVE THE ELEPHANT
* HIS FIRST' SCIENTIFIC STUDY ON ELEPHANT AT THE AGE OF 23 IN TANZANIA, LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK,
AWARD -
* 1988 - THE ORDER OF THE GOLDEN ARK ( For ELEPHANT CONSERVATION)
* 1992 - THE ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
* 2015 - COMMANDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
* 2010 - INDIANPOLIS PRIZE
* 2006 - DISNEY WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FUND AWARD
* LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD BY SAN DIEGO
* HE WAS THE GRANDSON OF ALFRED DOUGLAS HAMILTON (13th DUKE OF HAMILTON)
* SILISERH LAKE IN ALWAR, RAJASTHAN
* KOPRA JALASHYA IN CHHATTISGARH
* TWO NEW RAMSAR SITES HAVE BEEN ADDED BY GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
* INDIA HAS NOW 96 RAMSAR SITES
BOOKS -
* HE & HIS WIFE ORIA HAMILTON CO AUTHOR
- AMONG THE ELEPHANTS (1975)
- BATTLE OF THE ELEPHANTS (1992)
- THE TREE WHERE MAN WAS BORN
* HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP TO CITES FOR MONITORING THE ILLEGAL KILLING OF ELEPHANT (MIKE) IN AFRICA
* 1982 - IUCN MEMBER FOR AFRICANS ELEPHANT SPECIALIST GROUPS
*
HOST -
* Nairobi Host The 7th Edition Of UN ENVIRONMENT Assembly ( UNEA-7)
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* Satpura TIGER RESERVE, Madhya Pradesh Has Received The TOFT KAILASH Sankhala Visitor Friendly Wildlife National Park Award 2025.
* India's Resolution At UNEA -7
* WII - EIACP Has Been Awarded Category A Status
* Maharshtra Chief Minister Devendra Pandavis Has Launched The Eco - Friendly Exotic Bird Park Project To Boost Tourism
* South Sudan Has Became The New Member Of International Big Cat Alliance
* Union Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav Has Attend At The NATIONAL Tiger Conservation Authority ( NTCA) And Project Elephant Meeting At Sunderban, Kolkata.
* NATIONAL Tiger Conservation Authority ( NTCA) Has DECLARED Gujarat A Tiger State After 33 Years.
* 55 Tigers Died in Madhya Pradesh Since 1973 Project TIGER.
JANUARY -
* Assam Reports Zero Rhino Poaching In 2025.
* India Loses 165 Tigers in 2025
MADHYA PRADESH - 55
MAHARASHTRA - 28
KARNATAKA - 22
UTTARAKHAND - 18
ASSAM - 12
RAJASTHAN -11
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FIRST SIGHT -
* Karnataka Records Its First' Sandalwood Leopard
CROCODILE CENSUS -
* A Total Of 1858 Salt Water Crocodile Counted in Odisha
- 531 Hatchling (28.58%)
- 442 Yearlings ( 23.79%)
- 365 Juvenile ( 19.64%)
- 167 Sub Adults - ( 8.99%(
- 353 Adults ( 19%)
NEW SPECIES =
* * CALAMARIA MIZORAMENSIS, A NEW REED SNAKE SPECIES DISCOVERD IN MIZORAM.
* IT IS BASED ON DNA
* THIS IS THE NON - VENOMOUS REED SNAKE
*
NEW PL\ANT SPECIES -
'* * HEPTAPLEURUM ANAMUDIANUM, AMRUTH, ROBI & SUJANA, A NEW SPECIES OF ARALIACEAE HAS DISCOVERD IN ANAMUDI HILLS, IDUKKI DISTRICT, KERALA.
* THIS SPECIES DISTINGUISH BY ITS LEAF TAXONOMY.
* RESEARCHERS FROM NAGALAND UNIVERSITY HAVE FOUND A NEW PLANT SPECIES IN PHEK.
* NEW SPECIES - HOYA NAGAENSIS ( NAGAENSIS FROM NAGALAND) & NAGA COMMUNITY
( FAMILY - APOCYNACEAE)
* SUB FAMILY - ASCLEPIADOIDEAE
* THE SPECIES DISCOVERD IN PHEK DISTRICT FOREST IN NAGALAND
TWO NEW FROG SPECIES -
* RESEARCHERS FROM DELHI AND HARVARD UNIVERSITY HAVE DISCOVERED TWO NEW FROG SPECIES IN ARUNACHAL PRADESH. ( HERPETOLOGIST DR S D BIJU FROM DELHI UNIVERSITY)
* LEPTOBRACHIUM SOMANI ( SOMAN'S SLENDER ARMED FROG)
* LEPTOBRACHIUM MECHUKA ( MECHUKA SLENDER ARMED FROG)
* THESE TWO SPECIES HAVE DISCOVERED IN LOWER DIBANG VALLEY AND SHI - YOMI DISTRICT
TWO NEW SNAIL SPECIES -
* RESEARCHERS FROM EUROPE HAS DISCOVERD THREE NEW GENERA OF SMALL LAND SNAIL SPECIES FROM HIMALAYA AND MIZORAM.
* Chamalycaeus Ganeshaiahi
* Cycloryx Rohiniae ( From Blue Mountain, Mizoram)
* Dicharax Umashaankeri, From Blue Mountain, Mizoram
* NEWLY DISCOVERED SPECIES NAMED IN HONOUR TO TRUSTEE OF ATREE - Rohini Nilekani, R Uma Shaanker, K N Ganeshaiah
* * RESEARCHERS HAVE DISCOVERED THREE NEW SPECIES OF MUSICAL KATYDIDS IN KASHMIR.
* CONOCEPHALUS USMANII ( Named After Professor Mohd Kamil Usmani)
* CONOCEPHALUS NAGARIENSIS ( Budagam District)
* CONOCEPHALUS GANDERBALI ( Named After Ganderbal District)
* THE TEAM WAS LEAD BY MUZAMIL SYED SHAH FROM ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY,
* A SMALL CRUSTACEAN HAS BEEN DISCOVERED IN KVARATTI LAGOON IN LAKSHADWEEP ISLANDS
* A NEW GENUS AND NEW SPECIES
* FAMILY - LAOPHONTIDAE ( CLASS - COPEPODA)
* THE SPECIES CRUSTACEAN NAMED - INDIAPHONTE BIJOYI
* SPECIES NAMED AFTER - A BIJOY NANDAN, Dean Of Faculty Marine Science, Cochin University of Science & Technology ( CUST)
* A NEW SPECIES OF WORM LIKE CAECILIAN HAS DISCOVERD IN WESTERN GHATS
* SPECIES NAME - GEGENEOPHIS VALMIKI
( NAMED AFTER MAHARISHI VALMIKI MANDIR, IN SATARA DISTRICT, MAHARASHTRA)
* A NEW SPECIES OF GINGER HAS BEEN DISCOVERED IN SIANG VALLEY OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH
* SPECIES NAME - PARAKAEMPFERIA ALBA
* RESERCHERS FROM KERALA & TAMILNADU HAVE DISCOVERED TWO NEW SPECIES OF RARE ANT FLIES - FROM DELHI & TAMILNADU.
* TWO NEW SPECIES ARE
- METADON GHORPADEI ( Picture 1)
- METADON REEMERI ( Picture 2)
- SUB FAMILY - MICRODONTINAE ( Syrphidae)
* Rare Ghost Orchid REDISCOVERED After 175 Years In Meghalaya.
* A NEW PLANT SPECIES HAS DISCOVERD IN EAST KAMENG DISTRICT IN ARUNACHAL PRADESH ( INDIAN HIMALAYA)
* SPECIES NAME - STROBILANTHES RITESHII K
* FAMILY BELONGS TO - ACANTHACEAE)
* A NEW SPECIES OF WILDFLOWER SPECIES (YELLOW COLOUR) DISCOVERED IN RATNAGIRI DISTRICT, MAHARASHTRA.
* PLANT NAME - LEPIDAGATHIS KONKANENSIS ( KONKON REGION)
* A GROUP OF BOTANIST FROM PARULEKAR COLLEGE OF ARTS, COMMENCE, SCIENCE, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE SCIENCES, REPUBLIC OF KOREA, AND LOCAL COLLEGE OF MAHARSHTRA DISCOVERED
* THIS SPECIES IS BRIGHT YELLOW COLOUR, TWO LIPPED BLOSSOM AND VERY SHORT, DENSE FLOWERING HEAD ( MEASURES ABOUT 2 CENTIMETRES)
STATE FLOWER -
* CHANDIGARH DECLARES THE STRIPED TIGER BUTTERFLY AS STATE FLOWER
* DANAUS GENUTIA ( SPECIES NAME)
ENVIRONMENT -
* The Tamilnadu Forest Has Denied Permission To NTPC Tamilnadu Energy Corporation Limited To Conduct Test At The Proposed Upper Bhavani Pumped Storage HYDROELECTRIC PROJECT At Mukhurti National Park
* Tamilnadu Has Registered A Historic Milestone With The Notification Of 100 New Reserve Forests, Nearly 13,500 Hectares
* Madhya Pradesh To Rename The Ratapani Tiger Reserve After Padmashri Archaeologist Dr. Vishnu Sridhar.
* Crocodile Census Held in Odisha ( Similpal)
84 in 2026 ( 81 in 2025)
AWARDS -
* Dr Nobin Raja, A Researchers At ATREE Has Been Awarded With Hasmukh Shah Memorial Award For Ecological Studies 2025.
* * AMERICAN MYCOLOGIST TOBY KIERS WINS THE 2026 TYLER PRIZE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACHIEVEMENT.
* HER WORK ON MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI
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* G Rajkumar, An Eminent ENVIRONMENTALIST Of Kerala Passed Away.
( KNOWN AS KURINJI RAJKUMAR)
* WHO Led The Role In The Estsblishment Of Kurinjimala Sanctuary 2006)
( to protect The Rare Neelakurinji Flower In Western Ghat)
( Meitei Nganu Or Eshing Nganu - The Manipuri Duck Has Been Registered As a Distinct Indigenous Breed In Assam. (By ICAR)
FIRST MAGH BIHU CENSUS -
* First Magh Bihu Census Records 2026
- 111 Bird Species In Chandubi Beel
* UNION Environment And Climate MINISTER Has Announced The Notification Declaring The Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary As Eco Sensitive Zone
* The Russian Federation Has Formally Joined As The International Big Cat Alliance
* Hesarghatta Grassland, In Bengaluru Received The Conservation Reserve Tag.
* Tamilnadu Forest Department Will Conduct A State Wide Raptor Assessment To Map Distribution Of Birds Of Prey.
* Bacillus Subtilis Declared State Microbe Of Kerala.
* Two Days Asian Water Bird Census 2026 To Conduct At Pobitora
* A 63.5 Lakh Tonne Reserves Of Rare Earth Elements Discovered In Karnataka.
BOOKS -
* SHRUBS AND CLIMBERS IN INDIA: A Field Guide Book Author - The Kodaikanal Based Environmentalist PIPA MUKHERJEE
NEW RAMSAR SITES ADDED -
* * MINISTRY OF FOREST, CLIMATE ENVIRONMENT HAS ANNOUNCED TO ADD TWO NEW RAMSAR SITES
* PATNA BIRD SANCTURY IN ETAH, UTTAR PRADESH
* CHHARI - DHAND IN KUTCH, GUJARAT
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