JANUARY TO MAY WILDLIFE & ENVIRONMENT CA IN 2025

JANUARY - 

ASSAM FOREST REPORT - 

* Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma Launched The Elephant Population Estimation (EPE)

* Assam Has Now 5828 Elephants 

* 5719 Elephants Were In 2017 Counts

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* India's First Ever Coastline Waders Bird Census To Be Conducted In Jamnagar, Gujarat From 3rd January To 5th January 2025.

* Uttarakhand Forest Department Establishes MAHABHARATA VATIKA. 

* Kerala Forest Department Has Announced A Mission Food, Fodder And Water Campaign To Tackle Human Wildlife Conflict In The State.

FIRST IN INAUGURATION - 

* Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Inaugurated State's First Elephant Rescue Centre At Shaheed Ashfaq Ullah Khan Zoological Park, Gorakhpur.

NEW SPECIES - 

* Researchers From Indian  Council Of Agriculture Research - NBFGR Identified A New Species Of Yellow Catfish HORABAGRUS OBSCURUS, in Chalakudy River, Kerala 

*  NEOLISSOCHILUS PNAR, The Largest Known Cave Fish Species Discovered In Meghalaya, Has Been Honoured As India's First Ever National CAVE Animal Of The Year By The Speleological Association Of India ( SAI). 

* Researchers Have Found Two Rare Order Neuroptera Species- Glenochrysa Zeylanica (FAMILY - CHRYSOPIDAE) And Indophane Barbara ( FAMILY -  MYRMELEONTIDAE )   - In Kerala 

* Scientists From Zoological Survey Of India (ZSI) Have Discovered A New Species Of Pangolin In Arunachal Pradesh ( NAMED ON INDIA BURMAN BORDER) 

( Named After - Manis Indoburmanica) 

* * Researchers From Zoological Survey Of India (ZSI) Have Identified 23 Species Of Blood Sucking Flies (13 Of Them Discovered First Time In Country In Andaman and Nicobar) 

* GARRA MAGNAROSTRUM - A New Species Of Cypirind Fish ( Teleostei Cyprinidae) At The Brahmaputra River 

* 2024 Was The Year Of Above 1.5 Degree C Above Temperature Recorded ( For The First Time).

* Indore, Madhya Pradesh And Udaipur, Rajasthan Have Joined The List Of 31 Wetlands Accredited Cities In The World's (First India) BY UNESCO 

IUCN - 

* The First Ever Multi Taxon Global Fresh Water Fauna Assessment For The IUCN Red List Of Threatened Species Has Been Identified In Western Ghats.

RARE - 

* A Rare Melanistic Leopard Spotted With Cub In Nayagarh District Forest In Odisha.

* Tripura Has Recorded Its First Ever Sighting Of The Rare Banded Royal Butterfly ( RACHANA JALINDRA INDRA) At Sepahijala Wildlife Sanctuary.

* The FIRST Photographic Evidence Of Elusive Palla's Cat (Manul) In Himachal Pradesh.

* Researcher Have Discovered The INDIAN SIPHONOPHORIDA After 77 Years (Species Name - SIPHONORHINUS PARAMBIKULUM) 

* GENUS - SIPHONORHINUS POCOCK)

* Found At Western Ghat, Kerala.

* Chinese Researchers Have Discovered a New Species Of RHODODENDRON In China's GUANGXI  ( Named - RHODODENDRON YUANBAOSHANENSE) 

ICAR - 

* Indian Council Of Agricultural Research (ICAR- NBFGR) PAGR Center, Kochi, Kerala Has Introduced India's First Ever Captive Breeding Protocol Developed For Black Collared Yellow Cat Fish (HORABAGRUS NIGRICOLLARIS) 

* Bihar Set To Gets First GHARIAL SANCTUARY In Gopalganj.

* Asian Waterbird Census Began In Coimbatore.

FIRST WILDLIFE HERITAGE SITE OF GUJARAT - 

* Gujarat Biodiversity Board Under The Gujarat Forest And Environment Department Has Declared The INLAND MANGROVE GUNERI Site In Guneri, Lakhpath Taluka Of Kutch District As Gujarat First Biodiversity Heritage Site.

MIXED - 

* Three Tigers Have Been Died Of H5N1 Or Avian Influenza Virus At Gorewada Rescue Center In Nagpur, Maharashtra.

*  Chhattisgarh Became The First Indian State To Link Forest Ecosystem With Green GDP.

ENVIRONMENT - 

*  Kerala's Kappad And Chal Beaches Gets Global Blue Tag Certification.

ODISHA LAKE BIRD CENSUS - 

* Odisha's Wetlands Witnessed Highest Migrated Birds With 16 Lakh Plus, 2000 Species And ( Hirakud 3,77,732) 

AWARDS - 

* HE Razan Khalifa AI Mubarak, President Of International Union For Conservation Of Nature Recognise In The Fin-Erth Women In Climate Awards 2024.

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FEBRUARY - 

4 NEW RAMSAR SITES ADDED - 

* SAKKARAKOTTAI BIRD SANCTUARY ( TAMILNADU) 

* THERTHANGAL BIRD SANCTARY ( TAMILNADU) 

* KHECHEOPALRI WETLAND ( SIKKIM) 

* UDHWA LAKE, (JHARKHAND) 

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* The Annual Asian Waterbird Census In Kollam District Counted 11,525 Birds, (81 Species) Including 46 Migratory 

* Tripureshwari Duck Has Been Registered As The New Breed By ICAR 

*  Sikhna Jwhwlao Set To The 8th National Park In Assam.

* Nagaland Forest Management Project (NFMP) Awarded The Prestigious SKOCH AWARD 2024 At New Delhi.

* Kerala Forest Department At Parambikulam Tiger Reserves In Palakkad Has Added 15 New Species.

* The First Breeding Site Of The Blue Cheeked Bee Eater - ( Merops Persicus) In Peninsular India Has Been Discovered In The Saltpans In The Aandivilai In Kanyakumari District.

* The Bacterium, Marinomonas Fungiae Sp Nov. isolates From Andaman Sea, 

* Researchers From NCPOR Goa Discovered 9 New Species In Indian Ocean.

VULTURE CENSUS - 

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13) Madhya Pradesh Become The State With Highest Numbers Of Vultures in The Country ( 12,981 In Recent Census)

NEW BACTERIA - 

*  BRIC- Institute Of Life Sciences, Has Discovered A Bacteria Named - THIOMONAS BHUBANESWARENSIS ( Named After Bhubaneswar City) Collected From Sediment Sample From Atri, Bhubaneswar Odisha 

* It Is An Aerobic, Obligatory Mixotrophic Moderated THERMOPHILIC Thiosulfate Oxidising Bacterium

* This Bacteria Can Be Utilizes In Bioleaching To Extract Metals From Sulphur Ores.

RARE FISH - 

* A Rare Humpback Angelfish Has Been Spotted Near The Surface Of The Atlantic Ocean Off The Coast Of Spain's Tenerife.

* UP Scientists Have Discovered Two New Species Of Dung Beetles, 

NEW BIRD SPECIES - 

* Four New Bird Species Have Been Sighted At The Periyar Tiger Reserves (PTR).

* BLUE THROAT  ( LUSCINIA SVECICA) 

* TAWNY PIPIT ( ANTHUS CAMPESTRIS) 

* ULTRAMARINE FLYCATCHER ( FICEDULA SUPERCILIARIS) 

* REDBREASTED FLYCATCHER ( FICEDULA PARVA) 

* Dr Krishna Chowlu, Researchers And Team In Arunachal Pradesh Has Discovered A New Plant Species Named - STROBILANTHES GIGANTEA, 

NEW COFFEE SPECIES - 

* A New Coffee Species Has Been Discovered In The Mouyouka- Kompina Forest Reserve In Littoral- Cameron.

ENDEMIC - 

* Saffron Reedtail Damselfly Discovered In Karnataka.

* Three New Species Of Dung Beetles Have Been Discovered (Genus Onitis) 

* ONITIS BHOMORENSIS ( Named After The Bridge Kolia Bhomora Near Its Collection In Tezpur, Assam) 

* ONITIS KETHAI ( Found From BRT Tiger Reserve, Named In Memory Of The Late Ketha Gowda ) 

* ONITIS VISTHARA ( Found Near Grassland Near Hesarghatta Lake) 

CENSUS - 

* According To The Census - Ganjam Has 8789 Blackbuck 

HOST - 

* Siem Reap, Cambodia Hosting The 4th Asian Elephant Range States Meeting.

NEW FLOWER SPECIES - 

* Researchers Have Discovered Two New Species Of Green Cardamom At Western Ghat Region At Kerala - 

* Elettaria Facifera 

* Elettaria Tulipifera 

* 

ENVIRONMENT - 

* India's Coast line Grew 47.6% From 7516 Km In 1970 To 11,098 Km In 2023/24.

* The Ministry Of External Affairs Has Confirmed That The Framework Agreement On Establishment Of The International Big Cat Alliance Has Officially Came Into Force From 23rd January 2025.

TYLER PRIZE FOR ENVIRONMENT - 

* SANDRA DIAZ 

( SERVING AS THE UN SECRETARY GENERAL SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD) 

* EDUARDO BRONDIZIO 

( HE LEADS THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE AT UNESCO BIOSPHERE RESERVES PROGRAME)

* Dr Dhitri Banerjee, Director Of Zoological Survey Of India (ZSI) Conferred With Lifetime Achievement Award 2025 By The Society Of Biological Science And Rural Development, Lucknow.

* Biologist Purnima Devi Burman Has Win The TIMES WOMAN OF THE YEAR

MARCH - 

NEW SPECIES - 

* A New Bat Species Has Been Discovered By Global Research Team.
RESEARCH Team In Collaboration With Srilanka, India And Thailand Under The c SRINIVASULU, Head Wildlife Biology And Taxonomy Lab, University Osmania 

( NAME - HIPPOSIDEROS BRACHYOTUS) 

* The Two New Jumping Spider Species Have Been Discovered In Western Ghat.

* HABROCESTUM SWAMINATHAN ( In The River Bank Of Kunthi) Has Been Named After Dr M S Swaminathan 

* HABROCESTUM BENJAMIN ( Collected From THUSHARGIRI) Named After Suresh P Benjamin ( Srilankan Based SPIDER Specialist) 

* A New Round Worm Species Has Been Discovered By Odisha ZSI Team.

( NAMED CRASSOLABIUM DHRITIAE) 

* It Is Named After Zoological Survey Of India (ZSI) Chief Dr Dhriti Banerjee 

* Discovered In Keonjhar District, Odisha 

* A Wildlife Researchers Team Including Tejas Thackeray (Son Of Former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray ) Has Discovered Three New Species Of Bent Toed- geckos - ( Cyrtodactylus) From Nepal.

* Scientists From BRIC- DBT NCCS Pune Have Isolated And Sequenced A Novel Bacterial Species MARISEDIMINICOLA SENII Sp Nova From Antarctic Sediments.

* Researchers At National Bureau Of Fish Genetic Resources ( NBFGR) Under ICAR Has Discovered A New Species Of Congrid Eel 

*  Named After - Tamilnadu

* A New Species Of Spider Has Been Spotted In Amboli, Sindhurgarh, Maharashtra 

* SPECIES Name - Indothele Amboli (After Amboli) 

* Researchers From Berhampur University In Collaboration With ZSI Discovered A New Marine Parasitic Species in Odisha 

* Researchers Discovered A New Snail Species From Gireshwar Temple, Ratnagiri, Maharashtra 

( Named After - THEOBALDIUS KONKONENSIS) 

 * Punjab Government Plans To Develop JHAJJAR- BACHAULI Wildlife Sanctuary As First Leopard Safari Destination State.

* Tamilnadu Launched The Hornbill Conservation Initiative To Protect Threatened Species In Western Ghats.

* Scientists From Department Of Entomology BHU (Agriculture) Have Discovered A New Species Of Insect ( NAMED AFTER - MAHAMANA PANDIT MADAN MOHAN MALVIYA ) The Team Was Lead By Professor M Raghuraman.

 * New Wild Ginger Species, ZINGIBER JAGANNATHII, Has Been Discovered In Similipal Biosphere reserves In Mayurbhanj, Odisha.

RARE SIGHT - 

* India's Rarest Wildcats The Caracal Has Seen First Time Ever In Rajasthan ( At Mukundrahill Tiger Reserves) 

* For The First Time Eurasian Otter captured In Pune, Maharashtra

FIRST IN - 

* Darjeeling Zoo, West Bengal Has Became The First In India To Launch A Project To Preserve DNA Samples Of Wildlife In Hills.

* The Karimphuza Wildlife Sanctuary Have Reported 63 New Species Of Odonets, Butterfly, Bird's.

\NEW TIGER RESERVE IN INDIA - 

* MADHAV TIGER RESERVES Became The India's 58th Tiger Reserves, 9th Tiger Reserves For State Madhya Pradesh.

* Byrnihat, Assam- MEGHALAYA Border Town  Became The World's Most Polluted in 2025.

*  Union Minister For Forest Climate Change Bhupendra Yadav Has Shares The News Of First Captive Bred Great Indian Bustard Chick Of 2025.

 DOLPHIN CENSUS - 

India's First Ever Survey On River Dolphin Has Completed In Four States ( With 6300 River Dolphin).

* Prime Minister Narendra Modi Chaired The 7th Meeting Of The National Board For Wildlife At Junagadh, Gujarat.

PERSON PASSED AWAY - 

* An Eminent Wildlife, Biologist, Dr Ajith Kumar Passed Away.

AWARDS - 

FIRST JADAV PAYENG AWARD ( FOREST MAN OPF INDIA) - 

Telengana Based Water Conservationist M Karunakar Reddy Received The First Award Named After Assam's Jadav Payeng ( An Environment Activist)

PERSON PASEE AWAY - 

* South African Conservationist Vincent Van Der Merwe, Known For PROJECT CHEETAH Has Passed Away.

* * Gunter Bloschl Wins The Stockholm Water Prize 2025.

APRIL - 

* KASAMPATTY Sacred Grove In Dindigul Declared Tamilnadu's 2nd Biodiversity Heritage Site. 

* Zoological Survey Of India (ZSI) Unveiled The North Bengal Black Flies Behind River Blindness Of Human.

* Odisha Government Notified Similpal National Park With An Area Of 845.70 Sq km (107th National Park Of India) 

* Known For Melanistic Tiger.

* BHITARKANIKA NATIONAL PARK - 16TH SEPTEMBER 1998 

* SIMILPAL NATIONAL PARK - 2025 

* SIMILPAL BECAME ODISHA SECOND NATIONAL PARK DECLARED.

* INDIA'S 107TH NATIONAL PARK.

 * Karnataka State Government To Make First Sanctuary For Haynes in Belghavi.

* A New Global Initiative Has Launched Called REVIVE OUR OCEAN On 24th April 2025 ( With A Goal To Scale Up Effective - Community Lead Marine Protected Areas) Through Local Action.

* Nepal Census The Snow Leopards In Country (Nearly 397 Snow Leopards) 

NEW SPEICES - 

* A Group Of Researchers Have Discovered a New Species Of DAMSELFLY In The Wayanad Landscape In Western Ghats, Kerala. 

(NAMED -  EUPHAEA WAYANADENSIS) 

* This Is The Kerala's 191st Odonate Species) 

* A Team Of Researchers From Ashoka Trust For Research In Ecology And The Environment (ATREE) Has Rediscovered A Long Lost Species (After 114 Years) Of The Velvet Worms ( Phylum Onychophora) In Arunachal Pradesh.

* Researchers From Zoological Survey Of India (ZSI) And Museum A KOEING In Germany Have Discovered Six New Beetle Species In North East. 

* Six New Species Of SERICINAE SCARAB Beetles Have Been Discovered From North East India 

SIX NEW SPECIES ARE - 

* Maladera Champhaiensis 

* Neoserica Churachandpurensis 

* Maladera Barasingha 

* Maladera Lumlaensis 

* Serica Subansiriensis 

* Maladera Onam 

* Researchers at The Centre For Peninsular Genetic Resources Kochi, Of The National Bureau Of Fish Genetics Resources Have Discovered Two New Species Of Fish In Western Ghats.

* LABEO URU 

* LABEO CHEKIDA 

( TAXONOMY OF LABEO NIGERSCENS) A Species First Describes In 1870 

* Scientists Have Discovered a New Species Of Frog In Assam's GARBHANGA Reserve 

( NAMED AFTER - LEPTOBRACHIUM ARYATIUM) 

In Honour To Arya Vidyapeeth College, Guwahati, Assam 

* New Mosquito Species Has Been Discovered In Srilanka.

* NAMED - CULEX ( LOPHOCERAOMYIA) CINCTELLUS. 

* Found In Colombo, Srilanka 

FIRST IN CAPTURE - 

* Buxa Tiger Reserve Along With Wildlife Institute Of India (WII) Captured The First Photographic Record Of The Spotted LINSANG ( PRIONODON PARDICOLOR) 

* A Rare Long Snouted Vine Snake Has Been. rediscover In The Dudhwa Tiger Reserves, Uttar Pradesh.

* Steppe Eagle Spotted For the First Time In Madurai, 

* The Small Hive Beetle (AETHINATUMIDA) Recorded In India' First time In West Bengal.

* Malabar Flash, a Reddish Dark Brown Butterfly Spotted in Nilgiri For First Time.

( RAPALA LANKANA ) 

* A Black Jackal Has Been Spotted In Baramati, Pune.

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 A New Species Of Carnivorous Caterpillar Has Been Discovered On The Hawaiian Island.

* Scientists From CSIR -IHBT Palampur, Have Discovered A New Orchid Species (HEMIPILIA HIMALYENSIS) At Dibang Valley Arunachal Pradesh.

* POLYDENDRORHYNCHUS - a New Species Of Nemertea Identified At Bay Of Bengal  (HETERONEMERTEA) 

* A Joint Efforts By The University Of ARKANSAS (USA) And The Wildlife Institute Of India (WII) Discovered The Two New Species Of Fungi 

* XEROCOMUS GARHWALENSIS

* XEROCOMUS RISHIKENSIS

AT Banj Oak Forest In Himalaya.

NEW WILDLIFE SANCTUARY - 

* Madhya Pradesh State Government Has Announced The State's 25th Wildlife Sanctuary After Baba Saheb Ambedkar.

AWARDS - 

* CSE Director General Sunita Narain Has Been Honoured With The Navbharat Navaratna Samman 2025 For Contribution In Environment Protection.

ENVIRONMENT - 

* Brazil Has Proposed The Creation Of A New International Body To Accelerate Global Climate Action.

* A Team Of Scientists Have Unearthed The Ancient Lagoon Ecosystem In Northern Patagonia.

( Chadititan Calvoi, A Newly Discovered Titanausur Discovered).

* Kerala And Tamilnadu To Conduct Joint Nilgiri Tahr Census 

* India And 62 Other Countries Voted In Favour Of The World's First Ever Global Carbon Tax Imposed On The Shipping Industry By The United Nations Shipping Agency.

*  Four New Fungal Species Of Genus CHLOROCIBORIA Have Been Discovered In South West China.

MAY - 

JANUARY - 

ASSAM FOREST REPORT - 

* Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma Launched The Elephant Population Estimation (EPE)

* Assam Has Now 5828 Elephants 

* 5719 Elephants Were In 2017 Counts

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* India's First Ever Coastline Waders Bird Census To Be Conducted In Jamnagar, Gujarat From 3rd January To 5th January 2025.

* Uttarakhand Forest Department Establishes MAHABHARATA VATIKA. 

* Kerala Forest Department Has Announced A Mission Food, Fodder And Water Campaign To Tackle Human Wildlife Conflict In The State.

FIRST IN INAUGURATION - 

* Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Inaugurated State's First Elephant Rescue Centre At Shaheed Ashfaq Ullah Khan Zoological Park, Gorakhpur.

NEW SPECIES - 

* Researchers From Indian  Council Of Agriculture Research - NBFGR Identified A New Species Of Yellow Catfish HORABAGRUS OBSCURUS, in Chalakudy River, Kerala 

*  NEOLISSOCHILUS PNAR, The Largest Known Cave Fish Species Discovered In Meghalaya, Has Been Honoured As India's First Ever National CAVE Animal Of The Year By The Speleological Association Of India ( SAI). 

* Researchers Have Found Two Rare Order Neuroptera Species- Glenochrysa Zeylanica (FAMILY - CHRYSOPIDAE) And Indophane Barbara ( FAMILY -  MYRMELEONTIDAE )   - In Kerala 

* Scientists From Zoological Survey Of India (ZSI) Have Discovered A New Species Of Pangolin In Arunachal Pradesh ( NAMED ON INDIA BURMAN BORDER) 

( Named After - Manis Indoburmanica) 

* * Researchers From Zoological Survey Of India (ZSI) Have Identified 23 Species Of Blood Sucking Flies (13 Of Them Discovered First Time In Country In Andaman and Nicobar) 

* GARRA MAGNAROSTRUM - A New Species Of Cypirind Fish ( Teleostei Cyprinidae) At The Brahmaputra River 

* 2024 Was The Year Of Above 1.5 Degree C Above Temperature Recorded ( For The First Time).

* Indore, Madhya Pradesh And Udaipur, Rajasthan Have Joined The List Of 31 Wetlands Accredited Cities In The World's (First India) BY UNESCO 

IUCN - 

* The First Ever Multi Taxon Global Fresh Water Fauna Assessment For The IUCN Red List Of Threatened Species Has Been Identified In Western Ghats.

RARE - 

* A Rare Melanistic Leopard Spotted With Cub In Nayagarh District Forest In Odisha.

* Tripura Has Recorded Its First Ever Sighting Of The Rare Banded Royal Butterfly ( RACHANA JALINDRA INDRA) At Sepahijala Wildlife Sanctuary.

* The FIRST Photographic Evidence Of Elusive Palla's Cat (Manul) In Himachal Pradesh.

* Researcher Have Discovered The INDIAN SIPHONOPHORIDA After 77 Years (Species Name - SIPHONORHINUS PARAMBIKULUM) 

* GENUS - SIPHONORHINUS POCOCK)

* Found At Western Ghat, Kerala.

* Chinese Researchers Have Discovered a New Species Of RHODODENDRON In China's GUANGXI  ( Named - RHODODENDRON YUANBAOSHANENSE) 

ICAR - 

* Indian Council Of Agricultural Research (ICAR- NBFGR) PAGR Center, Kochi, Kerala Has Introduced India's First Ever Captive Breeding Protocol Developed For Black Collared Yellow Cat Fish (HORABAGRUS NIGRICOLLARIS) 

* Bihar Set To Gets First GHARIAL SANCTUARY In Gopalganj.

* Asian Waterbird Census Began In Coimbatore.

FIRST WILDLIFE HERITAGE SITE OF GUJARAT - 

* Gujarat Biodiversity Board Under The Gujarat Forest And Environment Department Has Declared The INLAND MANGROVE GUNERI Site In Guneri, Lakhpath Taluka Of Kutch District As Gujarat First Biodiversity Heritage Site.

MIXED - 

* Three Tigers Have Been Died Of H5N1 Or Avian Influenza Virus At Gorewada Rescue Center In Nagpur, Maharashtra.

*  Chhattisgarh Became The First Indian State To Link Forest Ecosystem With Green GDP.

ENVIRONMENT - 

*  Kerala's Kappad And Chal Beaches Gets Global Blue Tag Certification.

ODISHA LAKE BIRD CENSUS - 

* Odisha's Wetlands Witnessed Highest Migrated Birds With 16 Lakh Plus, 2000 Species And ( Hirakud 3,77,732) 

AWARDS - 

* HE Razan Khalifa AI Mubarak, President Of International Union For Conservation Of Nature Recognise In The Fin-Erth Women In Climate Awards 2024.

* 

FEBRUARY - 

4 NEW RAMSAR SITES ADDED - 

* SAKKARAKOTTAI BIRD SANCTUARY ( TAMILNADU) 

* THERTHANGAL BIRD SANCTARY ( TAMILNADU) 

* KHECHEOPALRI WETLAND ( SIKKIM) 

* UDHWA LAKE, (JHARKHAND) 

* 

* The Annual Asian Waterbird Census In Kollam District Counted 11,525 Birds, (81 Species) Including 46 Migratory 

* Tripureshwari Duck Has Been Registered As The New Breed By ICAR 

*  Sikhna Jwhwlao Set To The 8th National Park In Assam.

* Nagaland Forest Management Project (NFMP) Awarded The Prestigious SKOCH AWARD 2024 At New Delhi.

* Kerala Forest Department At Parambikulam Tiger Reserves In Palakkad Has Added 15 New Species.

* The First Breeding Site Of The Blue Cheeked Bee Eater - ( Merops Persicus) In Peninsular India Has Been Discovered In The Saltpans In The Aandivilai In Kanyakumari District.

* The Bacterium, Marinomonas Fungiae Sp Nov. isolates From Andaman Sea, 

* Researchers From NCPOR Goa Discovered 9 New Species In Indian Ocean.

VULTURE CENSUS - 

* 

13) Madhya Pradesh Become The State With Highest Numbers Of Vultures in The Country ( 12,981 In Recent Census)

NEW BACTERIA - 

*  BRIC- Institute Of Life Sciences, Has Discovered A Bacteria Named - THIOMONAS BHUBANESWARENSIS ( Named After Bhubaneswar City) Collected From Sediment Sample From Atri, Bhubaneswar Odisha 

* It Is An Aerobic, Obligatory Mixotrophic Moderated THERMOPHILIC Thiosulfate Oxidising Bacterium

* This Bacteria Can Be Utilizes In Bioleaching To Extract Metals From Sulphur Ores.

RARE FISH - 

* A Rare Humpback Angelfish Has Been Spotted Near The Surface Of The Atlantic Ocean Off The Coast Of Spain's Tenerife.

* UP Scientists Have Discovered Two New Species Of Dung Beetles, 

NEW BIRD SPECIES - 

* Four New Bird Species Have Been Sighted At The Periyar Tiger Reserves (PTR).

* BLUE THROAT  ( LUSCINIA SVECICA) 

* TAWNY PIPIT ( ANTHUS CAMPESTRIS) 

* ULTRAMARINE FLYCATCHER ( FICEDULA SUPERCILIARIS) 

* REDBREASTED FLYCATCHER ( FICEDULA PARVA) 

* Dr Krishna Chowlu, Researchers And Team In Arunachal Pradesh Has Discovered A New Plant Species Named - STROBILANTHES GIGANTEA, 

NEW COFFEE SPECIES - 

* A New Coffee Species Has Been Discovered In The Mouyouka- Kompina Forest Reserve In Littoral- Cameron.

ENDEMIC - 

* Saffron Reedtail Damselfly Discovered In Karnataka.

* Three New Species Of Dung Beetles Have Been Discovered (Genus Onitis) 

* ONITIS BHOMORENSIS ( Named After The Bridge Kolia Bhomora Near Its Collection In Tezpur, Assam) 

* ONITIS KETHAI ( Found From BRT Tiger Reserve, Named In Memory Of The Late Ketha Gowda ) 

* ONITIS VISTHARA ( Found Near Grassland Near Hesarghatta Lake) 

CENSUS - 

* According To The Census - Ganjam Has 8789 Blackbuck 

HOST - 

* Siem Reap, Cambodia Hosting The 4th Asian Elephant Range States Meeting.

NEW FLOWER SPECIES - 

* Researchers Have Discovered Two New Species Of Green Cardamom At Western Ghat Region At Kerala - 

* Elettaria Facifera 

* Elettaria Tulipifera 

* 

ENVIRONMENT - 

* India's Coast line Grew 47.6% From 7516 Km In 1970 To 11,098 Km In 2023/24.

* The Ministry Of External Affairs Has Confirmed That The Framework Agreement On Establishment Of The International Big Cat Alliance Has Officially Came Into Force From 23rd January 2025.

TYLER PRIZE FOR ENVIRONMENT - 

* SANDRA DIAZ 

( SERVING AS THE UN SECRETARY GENERAL SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD) 

* EDUARDO BRONDIZIO 

( HE LEADS THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE AT UNESCO BIOSPHERE RESERVES PROGRAME)

* Dr Dhitri Banerjee, Director Of Zoological Survey Of India (ZSI) Conferred With Lifetime Achievement Award 2025 By The Society Of Biological Science And Rural Development, Lucknow.

* Biologist Purnima Devi Burman Has Win The TIMES WOMAN OF THE YEAR

MARCH - 

NEW SPECIES - 

* A New Bat Species Has Been Discovered By Global Research Team.
RESEARCH Team In Collaboration With Srilanka, India And Thailand Under The c SRINIVASULU, Head Wildlife Biology And Taxonomy Lab, University Osmania 

( NAME - HIPPOSIDEROS BRACHYOTUS) 

* The Two New Jumping Spider Species Have Been Discovered In Western Ghat.

* HABROCESTUM SWAMINATHAN ( In The River Bank Of Kunthi) Has Been Named After Dr M S Swaminathan 

* HABROCESTUM BENJAMIN ( Collected From THUSHARGIRI) Named After Suresh P Benjamin ( Srilankan Based SPIDER Specialist) 

* A New Round Worm Species Has Been Discovered By Odisha ZSI Team.

( NAMED CRASSOLABIUM DHRITIAE) 

* It Is Named After Zoological Survey Of India (ZSI) Chief Dr Dhriti Banerjee 

* Discovered In Keonjhar District, Odisha 

* A Wildlife Researchers Team Including Tejas Thackeray (Son Of Former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray ) Has Discovered Three New Species Of Bent Toed- geckos - ( Cyrtodactylus) From Nepal.

* Scientists From BRIC- DBT NCCS Pune Have Isolated And Sequenced A Novel Bacterial Species MARISEDIMINICOLA SENII Sp Nova From Antarctic Sediments.

* Researchers At National Bureau Of Fish Genetic Resources ( NBFGR) Under ICAR Has Discovered A New Species Of Congrid Eel 

*  Named After - Tamilnadu

* A New Species Of Spider Has Been Spotted In Amboli, Sindhurgarh, Maharashtra 

* SPECIES Name - Indothele Amboli (After Amboli) 

* Researchers From Berhampur University In Collaboration With ZSI Discovered A New Marine Parasitic Species in Odisha 

* Researchers Discovered A New Snail Species From Gireshwar Temple, Ratnagiri, Maharashtra 

( Named After - THEOBALDIUS KONKONENSIS) 

 * Punjab Government Plans To Develop JHAJJAR- BACHAULI Wildlife Sanctuary As First Leopard Safari Destination State.

* Tamilnadu Launched The Hornbill Conservation Initiative To Protect Threatened Species In Western Ghats.

* Scientists From Department Of Entomology BHU (Agriculture) Have Discovered A New Species Of Insect ( NAMED AFTER - MAHAMANA PANDIT MADAN MOHAN MALVIYA ) The Team Was Lead By Professor M Raghuraman.

 * New Wild Ginger Species, ZINGIBER JAGANNATHII, Has Been Discovered In Similipal Biosphere reserves In Mayurbhanj, Odisha.

RARE SIGHT - 

* India's Rarest Wildcats The Caracal Has Seen First Time Ever In Rajasthan ( At Mukundrahill Tiger Reserves) 

* For The First Time Eurasian Otter captured In Pune, Maharashtra

FIRST IN - 

* Darjeeling Zoo, West Bengal Has Became The First In India To Launch A Project To Preserve DNA Samples Of Wildlife In Hills.

* The Karimphuza Wildlife Sanctuary Have Reported 63 New Species Of Odonets, Butterfly, Bird's.

\NEW TIGER RESERVE IN INDIA - 

* MADHAV TIGER RESERVES Became The India's 58th Tiger Reserves, 9th Tiger Reserves For State Madhya Pradesh.

* Byrnihat, Assam- MEGHALAYA Border Town  Became The World's Most Polluted in 2025.

*  Union Minister For Forest Climate Change Bhupendra Yadav Has Shares The News Of First Captive Bred Great Indian Bustard Chick Of 2025.

 DOLPHIN CENSUS - 

India's First Ever Survey On River Dolphin Has Completed In Four States ( With 6300 River Dolphin).

* Prime Minister Narendra Modi Chaired The 7th Meeting Of The National Board For Wildlife At Junagadh, Gujarat.

PERSON PASSED AWAY - 

* An Eminent Wildlife, Biologist, Dr Ajith Kumar Passed Away.

AWARDS - 

FIRST JADAV PAYENG AWARD ( FOREST MAN OPF INDIA) - 

Telengana Based Water Conservationist M Karunakar Reddy Received The First Award Named After Assam's Jadav Payeng ( An Environment Activist)

PERSON PASEE AWAY - 

* South African Conservationist Vincent Van Der Merwe, Known For PROJECT CHEETAH Has Passed Away.

* * Gunter Bloschl Wins The Stockholm Water Prize 2025.

APRIL - 

* KASAMPATTY Sacred Grove In Dindigul Declared Tamilnadu's 2nd Biodiversity Heritage Site. 

* Zoological Survey Of India (ZSI) Unveiled The North Bengal Black Flies Behind River Blindness Of Human.

* Odisha Government Notified Similpal National Park With An Area Of 845.70 Sq km (107th National Park Of India) 

* Known For Melanistic Tiger.

* BHITARKANIKA NATIONAL PARK - 16TH SEPTEMBER 1998 

* SIMILPAL NATIONAL PARK - 2025 

* SIMILPAL BECAME ODISHA SECOND NATIONAL PARK DECLARED.

* INDIA'S 107TH NATIONAL PARK.

 * Karnataka State Government To Make First Sanctuary For Haynes in Belghavi.

* A New Global Initiative Has Launched Called REVIVE OUR OCEAN On 24th April 2025 ( With A Goal To Scale Up Effective - Community Lead Marine Protected Areas) Through Local Action.

* Nepal Census The Snow Leopards In Country (Nearly 397 Snow Leopards) 

NEW SPEICES - 

* A Group Of Researchers Have Discovered a New Species Of DAMSELFLY In The Wayanad Landscape In Western Ghats, Kerala. 

(NAMED -  EUPHAEA WAYANADENSIS) 

* This Is The Kerala's 191st Odonate Species) 

* A Team Of Researchers From Ashoka Trust For Research In Ecology And The Environment (ATREE) Has Rediscovered A Long Lost Species (After 114 Years) Of The Velvet Worms ( Phylum Onychophora) In Arunachal Pradesh.

* Researchers From Zoological Survey Of India (ZSI) And Museum A KOEING In Germany Have Discovered Six New Beetle Species In North East. 

* Six New Species Of SERICINAE SCARAB Beetles Have Been Discovered From North East India 

SIX NEW SPECIES ARE - 

* Maladera Champhaiensis 

* Neoserica Churachandpurensis 

* Maladera Barasingha 

* Maladera Lumlaensis 

* Serica Subansiriensis 

* Maladera Onam 

* Researchers at The Centre For Peninsular Genetic Resources Kochi, Of The National Bureau Of Fish Genetics Resources Have Discovered Two New Species Of Fish In Western Ghats.

* LABEO URU 

* LABEO CHEKIDA 

( TAXONOMY OF LABEO NIGERSCENS) A Species First Describes In 1870 

* Scientists Have Discovered a New Species Of Frog In Assam's GARBHANGA Reserve 

( NAMED AFTER - LEPTOBRACHIUM ARYATIUM) 

In Honour To Arya Vidyapeeth College, Guwahati, Assam 

* New Mosquito Species Has Been Discovered In Srilanka.

* NAMED - CULEX ( LOPHOCERAOMYIA) CINCTELLUS. 

* Found In Colombo, Srilanka 

FIRST IN CAPTURE - 

* Buxa Tiger Reserve Along With Wildlife Institute Of India (WII) Captured The First Photographic Record Of The Spotted LINSANG ( PRIONODON PARDICOLOR) 

* A Rare Long Snouted Vine Snake Has Been. rediscover In The Dudhwa Tiger Reserves, Uttar Pradesh.

* Steppe Eagle Spotted For the First Time In Madurai, 

* The Small Hive Beetle (AETHINATUMIDA) Recorded In India' First time In West Bengal.

* Malabar Flash, a Reddish Dark Brown Butterfly Spotted in Nilgiri For First Time.

( RAPALA LANKANA ) 

* A Black Jackal Has Been Spotted In Baramati, Pune.

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 A New Species Of Carnivorous Caterpillar Has Been Discovered On The Hawaiian Island.

* Scientists From CSIR -IHBT Palampur, Have Discovered A New Orchid Species (HEMIPILIA HIMALYENSIS) At Dibang Valley Arunachal Pradesh.

* POLYDENDRORHYNCHUS - a New Species Of Nemertea Identified At Bay Of Bengal  (HETERONEMERTEA) 

* A Joint Efforts By The University Of ARKANSAS (USA) And The Wildlife Institute Of India (WII) Discovered The Two New Species Of Fungi 

* XEROCOMUS GARHWALENSIS

* XEROCOMUS RISHIKENSIS

AT Banj Oak Forest In Himalaya.

NEW WILDLIFE SANCTUARY - 

* Madhya Pradesh State Government Has Announced The State's 25th Wildlife Sanctuary After Baba Saheb Ambedkar.

AWARDS - 

* CSE Director General Sunita Narain Has Been Honoured With The Navbharat Navaratna Samman 2025 For Contribution In Environment Protection.

ENVIRONMENT - 

* Brazil Has Proposed The Creation Of A New International Body To Accelerate Global Climate Action.

* A Team Of Scientists Have Unearthed The Ancient Lagoon Ecosystem In Northern Patagonia.

( Chadititan Calvoi, A Newly Discovered Titanausur Discovered).

* Kerala And Tamilnadu To Conduct Joint Nilgiri Tahr Census 

* India And 62 Other Countries Voted In Favour Of The World's First Ever Global Carbon Tax Imposed On The Shipping Industry By The United Nations Shipping Agency.

*  Four New Fungal Species Of Genus CHLOROCIBORIA Have Been Discovered In South West China.

MAY - 

NEW SPECIES - 

* A 4 Years Old Girl Discovered PANGIO JUHUAE - The New Fish Species In Kerala ( NAMED After Juhu)

* Scientists From Botanical Survey Of India (BSI) Discovered A Unique Wild Banana Species From Andaman Islands 

Musa Indandamanensis L J Singh ( Musaceae) 

* 70 Orchids Species From 36 Genres Documented In kaziranga National Park, Assam.

* The EUTHALIA MALACCANA, A New Butterfly Species Of Subspecies - EUTHALIA ADONIA Found In Arunachal Pradesh In Leparada District - 

 

* A New Damselfly Species Caliphaea Sinuofurcata Has Been Discovered ( Common Name - Bearded Bronzeback) At Upper Siang Arunachal Pradesh.

* A New Species Of Cave Dwelling Fish Has Been Discovered By Research Team From Guwahati University. 

( located in Krem Mawjumbuin Cave, located in Meghalaya's EAST Khasi Hill District. 

* Researchers From NEIST & UPPSALA University Have Found a New Alpine Plant Species, KOENIGIA ARUNACHALENSIS, At Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh.

RARE - 

* For The First Time India's Lepidopteran Records, The European Red Admiral ( VANESSA ATALANTA) A Migratory Butterfly Species Has Been Documented in Himachal Pradesh

* First Ever Clouded Leopards Preying Capture On Slow loris, Assam.

* After 110 Years a Lost Species Named - MORINGUA HODGARTI - (Ophichthys HODGARTI) Has Been Rediscover In Siang Valley 

* A Rare Lizard Species ( CALOTES ZOLAIKING) First Time Recorded In Meghalaya ( first Seen In Mizoram In 2019) 

* Rare Arctic Bird Sabines Gull Spotted At Gujarat 

16th Lion Population Estimation 2025 - 

* Gujarat Has Recorded 891 Lion Population ( 32% Increase Since Last Census) 

* 304 Lions in 1995 

* 359 Lions in 2005 

* 523 Lions in 2015 

* 674 Lions in 2020 

* 891 Lions In 2025 

MALE -  196 

FEMALE - 330 

SUB- ADULT  - 140 

CUB- 225 

AWARDS - 

* Divya Karnad Has Being Named As The WINGS WOMAN OF DISCOVERY 2025, in her Work in The Marine Conservation In South Asia.

* Tamilnadu Witnesses Record Of 2.29 lakh Olive Ridley Turtles Hatchling In This Season.

* Madhya Pradesh Set To Became India's First State To Conduct Snake Census.

* Uttar Pradesh Government Has Launched India's First Vistadome Jungle Safari Train Connecting Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary And Dudhwa Tiger Reserve.

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* Arunachal Pradesh Governor KT Pattnaik Has Presented The LAND OF RISING SUN - Plaque To Dr Krishna Chowlu, ( Botanical Survey Of india BSI) For Her Outstanding Work in Discovery of Rare Orchid Species In Arunachal Pradesh.

* Among The All States Assam Recorded The Highest Tree Cover Loss Between 2001 And 2024, Loosing 3,40,000 Hectares 

*  India Is Lost 18,200 Hectares Of Primary FOREST In 2024. 

* Former Indian Cricketer Anil Kumble Has Been Appointed As The Ambassador Of The Karnataka Forest Department And For Wildlife Conservation.

ENVIRONMENTS - 

* Government Of Karnataka Notified HESSARGHATTA Grassland As Its Conservation Reserve.

* The 5th Edition Of Big Cat Magazine, A Collaboration between IBCA And Sankala India Was Released By World Bank Head Ajay Banga.

 * Seven Beaches Of Maharashtra Gets Blue Flag Tag.

* Indian Coast Guard started OPERATION OLIVIA - To Protect Olive Ridley Turtles ( Coastal areas) 

* 6.98 Lakh Olive Ridley Turtles Protected 

 * Tamilnadu Has Created a New Mangrove Forest Near Buckingham Canal In Khazzipattur, Chennai.

* India's Coastline Has Increases At 11,098.81 Km ( Gujarat Has 2340.62 From 1600 Km) Longest Of India.

* India Launched The One Nation, One Mission End Plastic Pollution 

* Radheshyam Bishnoi, An Conservationist From Rajasthan Passed Away. 

* Noted Wildlife And Tiger Conservationist Valmik Thapar Passed away 

UNESCO LIST - 

* Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserves Enters UNESCO List.

KOZHIKODE NEW FLOWER,TREE - 

FOREST MINISTER A K SASEENDRAN ANNOUNCED THE KOZHIKODE NEW - 

* MELASTOMA MALABATHRICUM ( ATHIRANI) - AS OFFICIAL DISTRICT FLOWER 

* CYEX ERITHACA (MENIPONMAN) - Official District Bird 

* PACHLIOPTA PANDIYANA ( MALABAR ROSE) - OFFICIAL BUTTERFLY 

* HOPEA EROSA (THEYYAKAM) - OFFICIAL DISTRICT TREE 

* CYCAS CIRCINALIS (EENTHU) - OFFICIAL HERITAGE TREE 

* LUTROGALE PERSPICIllATA (otter) - Official Aquatics Animal 

* PANJIO BHUJIA - ( PATHALA POONTHARAKAN) - OFFICIAL DISTRICT FISH 

* MANIS CRASSICAUDATA (INDIAN PANGOLIN) - OFFICIAL ANIMAL 

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WHITLEY

 AWARDS - 

* FARINA OTHMAN (Malaysia) - Protection In Bornean Elephant 

* ANDRES LINK ( Colombia) - For Project Canopy Corridor ( Brown Spider Monkey)

* Reshu BASHYAL (Nepal) - Restore 1000+ Acres Plant species, Orchid Plants 

* YARA BARROS ( Brazil) - Protecting Jaguar In Iguacu National Park 

* FEDERICO KACOLIRIS ( Argentina) - Protection The Endemic And Endangered EI RINCON Stream Frog ( SOMUNCURA PLATEAU) 

* RAHAYU OKTAVINI (Indonesia) - Protection In Endangered JAVAN GIBBON 

* WHITLEY GOLD AWARD - Dr Olivier Nsengimana ( For Protection In The Grey Crowned Cranes) Rwanada