Hydropower in Northeastern India Poses Serious Threats to Yet-Undiscovered Wildlife The Himalayan region is home to one the last remaining intact temperate rainforest landscapes in the world. Rishika Pardikar
February 3, 2021
In June 2020, a team of herpetologists from the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) reported the rediscovery of the rare keelback snake (
Hebius pealii) in the state of Arunachal Pradesh in Northeastern India. The snake was first discovered 129 years ago by a British tea planter, who trapped a snake and sent it to a museum to be formally recorded as a new species. But the keelback had never been seen in the wild since. Until now.