Population growth, rapid urbanisation and climate change are leading to the increase in new viruses, says Pranav Pandit, veterinary epidemiologist, University of California, Davis
Understanding zoonotic diseases: ‘Global human interaction has eased transmission’
Understanding zoonotic diseases: ‘Enthusiasm for game meat to have prime impact on human health’
COVID-19: ‘It is easy to blame bats than to look at ourselves’
‘Chinese medicine’s use of animals a threat to entire world’
Down to Earth speaks to US scientist and doctor, David Gorski about Traditional Chinese Medicine in the wake of ...
‘Wildlife usage must be based on sound science and adaptive management’
Susan Lieberman, Vice President, International Policy, Wildlife Conservation Society, spoke about the highlights of the ongoing CMS CoP
'Urbanisation biggest culprit for decline in India's bird population'
Rajah Jayapal, senior principal scientist at the Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology, Coimbatore talks about the State of India's ...
Nut-cracking chimpanzees, elephants reveal animals have intelligent cultures: Expert
Dr Ian Redmond has conducted research on mountain gorillas for more than 35 years through conservation work
‘State protection for wildlife not a panacea for conservation’
Down To Earth speaks to Brain Heath, CEO of Mara Conservancy and director of Seiya Ltd, about the conservation ...
‘Gorilla conservation shows that humans can right their wrongs’
Down To Earth talks to Jillian Miller, who has been leading international, community-based gorilla conservation charity, The Gorilla Organization ...
‘Developing a Red List of India’s fungi is imperative’
NSK Harsh of the Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, talks to Down To Earth about the Red List of India’s ...
'Frogs are beautiful'
Wildlife filmamker Ajay Bedi talks to Down To Earth about his recent documentary, 'The Secret Life of Frogs' that ...
‘Yeti is a vehicle to connect with our wild past’
While the India Army claims to have seen tracks of the mythical Himalayan monster in snow, here’s an interview ...
‘Konkan’s rich biodiversity has lured poachers to its pangolins’
Vishwas Katdare is the founder of Sahyadri Nisarga Mitra, a non-profit operating for the last 26 years, mostly in ...
'Animals and humans have shared spaces in India long before 1972'
In the aftermath of a tragic incident in Maharashtra's Junnar, where 5 leopard cubs were burnt to death unknowingly ...
'Crocodiles are affected by low frequency vibrations'
Down To Earth interviews crocodile expert Adam Britton on impact of noise on the breeding and behaviour patterns of ...
The story of how mammals evolved
In his book ‘I, Mammal: The Story of What Makes us Mammals’, former neurobiologist Liam Drew takes the reader ...
‘Such an ad-lib translocation would lead to human-mugger conflict’
As the Gujarat government sets about catching 500 crocodiles from two ponds near the Statue of Unity to make ...
The sexual world of the tiger has been invisible to the world: Valmik Thapar
Down To Earth talks to veteran conservationist Valmik Thapar about his book 'The sex life of tigers', the cat’s ...
‘The future of the Indian Wolf is hanging by a slender thread’
Karnataka-based documentary filmmakers, Senani Hegde and Krupakar, whose work on wild dogs has been feted in the past, have ...
‘Wild tigers could be back in Kazakhstan by 2026’
Igor Chestin is the head of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)’s Russia chapter. He is in Delhi ...
‘Russia will do its best to protect the Amur tiger’
Sergey Aramilev is the Deputy Director of the Vladivostok-based Amur Tiger Centre. He is in Delhi to attend the ...
'River regulation responsible for decline in water bird population in Australia'
Kate Brandis, joint research fellow at the Centre for Ecosystem Science, UNSW and Australian Nuclear Science Technology Organisation
'Lions’ presence in human-dominated areas is neither new nor surprising'
Wildlife expert and authority on Gir lions Ravi Chellam, who is currently the executive director of Greenpeace India, talks ...
'Mission Tiger will make an emotional appeal to poachers to save the big cat'
Poachers come from very poor backgrounds and some poach for as meagre as Rs 2000 per tiger
