The Tamil Nadu government is developing a unique biodiversity park in Dindigul district to inculcate cultural, educational and biodiversity values among the public
Which way ahead for biodiversity conservation? Answer may lie in communities
Primate under threat: Why the slender loris needs a protected area in Tamil Nadu’s Dindigul
Climate change triggering global collapse in insect numbers: Stressed farmland shows 63% decline — new research
How 2021 offered us a ‘wall of opportunity’ to improve Tamil Nadu’s environmental scene
The Chief Wildlife Warden of Tamil Nadu enumerates what he and his team did to improve environmental affairs in the ...
Mermaids in Japan – from hideous harbingers of violence to beautiful enchantresses
Japan has adopted the western representation of the mermaid now, in contrast to the ghoulish ningyo, the half-human fish ...
Kamrup vulture deaths: It is time to fight for the birds, if we want to secure our own future
The decline in vulture populations in some parts of the world, including India, may have serious consequences for ecosystems ...
A first for large African mammals: DNA used to count Gabon’s endangered forest elephants
There are 95,110 forest elephants in Gabon according to analysis of DNA extracted from dung
The macaque monkeys of Mauritius: an invasive alien species, and a major export for research
Feral macaques in Mauritius are a formidably harmful invasive alien species, destructive to many animal and plant species which ...
Biodiversity Act: Do recent changes consider climate concerns, commitments?
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s proposed single-window clearances for ease of doing business is contrary to her climate concerns and ...
Rhino horn consumers reveal why a legal trade alone won’t save rhinos
Consumers show a strong preference for wild rhinos and do not believe that horns from semi-wild or farmed rhinos ...
EO Wilson’s lifelong passion for ants helped him teach humans about how to live sustainably with nature
Wilson, who died December 26, 2021, at the age of 92, discovered the chemical means by which ants communicate
Will Madhya Pradesh retain its ‘Tiger State’ tag this year?
This year, 40 tigers died in MP — the highest in India
The world’s largest organism is slowly being eaten by deer
The organism has been around for about 14,000 years
What it’s like to watch a harpooned whale die right before your eyes
Captain Paul Watson, who founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in 1977, defends his organisation’s controversial tactics to prevent ...
The jury is still out on the de-extinction of the woolly mammoth
There are several ethical concerns in bringing an extinct species back to life, some scientists have said about the ...
A test to diagnose psychopaths can help identify fish behaviours that could benefit aquaculture
Despite its sinister beginnings, personality profiling has proven effective at predicting the behaviour of humans and now lumpfish
How Australia’s saltwater crocodiles are being made scapegoats amid increasing conflicts with humans
There is no evidence to prove that their increased migration is causing attacks on humans as news report claim
The forgotten tigons and litigons of Alipore Zoo and other hybrids: Part 2
‘Species’ is a concept invented by human beings. And that concept is not clear-cut
Why everyone should develop a home garden
The joy of seeing plants flowering for the first time or birds building their nests in plants cannot be ...
Human-driven speciation: A peek into how we may alter the morphology of African elephants
Anthropogenic activities such as global warming, poaching, mining, deforestation and noise pollution will form a more wrinkly, hairier, tuskless, ...
Drug debacle: Endangered vulture population still under threat
India’s vulture populations are not safe; they are still small to recover quickly and will not survive another catastrophic ...
Is apple really good for the Himalayas?
Apple is the major crop in hills, but its role as a water guzzler or spread of orchards at ...
The forgotten tigons and litigons of Alipore Zoo and other hybrids
It is important to know about the lives of hybrids at Alipore and globally, given the baggage hybridisation has had ...
Habitat of bird that flies non-stop for 5 days from Japan to Australia under threat
Urban development continues to threaten Latham’s Snipe habitats. Several snipe sites in eastern Australia are at risk from housing ...