DECEMBER - JANUARY WILDLIFE & ENVIRONMENT CA 2025/26

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 

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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 

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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 

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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.

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* 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 

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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 

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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) 

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* 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) 

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* 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)

 

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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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