A team of researchers from the Bengaluru-based Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment and their collaborators have discovered five new species of the Darwin wasp subfamily Microleptinae from India and Thailand. Butcher of Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, and Andrei E. Humala of the Russian Academy of Sciences, described four new species from India and one from Thailand. Named …
Researchers have discovered a new ant species from the Eastern Himalayas. According to the researchers, the discovery, made during an expedition to Siang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh, marks the first addition to the Paraparatrechina genus from the Indian subcontinent, since the description of the sole previously known species P. aseta 121 years ago. The researchers said that although the blue …
Earlier this week on December 18, the landmark Forest Rights Act enacted by parliament in 2006 marked its 17th anniversary. On the occasion, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and The Environment, a Bengaluru-based research institution, released a bunch of resources including four videos on FRA, a documentary on the team’s work in Bastar, a webGIS mapping tool and a …
