OF FORESTS AND WILDLIFE-The Year That Was

For generations, tea gardens, villages, and forests across India shaped a landscape where people, elephants, bears and leopards largely learned to live alongside each other. 2025 tells a different story.

This year, human-wildlife encounters intensified, driven largely by rapid environmental change. Climate change played a visible role, with rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns disrupting natural cycles and pushing animals into unfamiliar spaces.

In the hills, warmer winters altered bear hibernation behaviour, bringing them closer to human settlements. Elsewhere, shrinking forests, declining food sources, and blocked migration routes increased everyday contact between wildlife and people.

oin us for a CSE Live Chat with Down To Earth’s Himanshu Nitnaware to take stock of the key developments of 2025: where conflicts escalated, how conservation efforts responded, and what this year says about the future of human-wildlife coexistence

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