Down To Earth speaks to plant ecologist Ankila Hiremath as the IPBES gets ready to release its landmark report on invasive species
‘The charm of birdwatching is intact’
International Wolf Day 2023: The best lupine habitat is in the human heart, says Bilal Habib
World Dhole Day 2023: India, Nepal, Bhutan and Thailand doing well on conserving enigmatic canid, says expert
Please give Project Cheetah some time: Divyabhanusinh
Down To Earth speaks to the author of ‘The story of India’s cheetahs’, first published in 1995, which has ...
The Borneo elephant has been overshadowed by its bigger cousins: Nurzhafarina Othman
Down To Earth speaks to Nurzhafarina Othman, a Malaysian elephant ecologist, on the little-known Borneo elephant
50 years of Project Tiger: Half a century on, conservation has to move on beyond band-aid mode, says Mahesh Rangarajan
Down To Earth speaks to Mahesh Rangarajan, professor of history and environmental studies at Ashoka University in Haryana, for ...
We hope to see Amur leopards back across their historic range in two decades: Taisiia Marchenkova
Down To Earth speaks to Taisiia Marchenkova, a researcher in the Land of the Leopard National Park in Russia, ...
‘Insatiable demand from the East, greed & lack of political will is enabling poaching across Africa’
Wildlife veterinarian Dave Cooper talks about poaching, effect of climate change and his experience with conservation
‘OECMs are a win-win for conservation and community’
Down To Earth talks to conservationist Vinod Mathur to learn more about India’s roadmap to conserve its marine regions
Large chunks of slender loris habitat already lost, need protected areas for endangered primate: Expert
Down To Earth spoke to Honnavalli N Kumara about the importance of conservation of the species and the existing ...
Bihar man-eater shot: ‘We need to put down problem animals for wildlife conservation’
Shafath Ali Khan, who was engaged by the Maharashtra government in the operation to eliminate Avni in 2018, released ...
International Vulture Awareness Day: India’s numbers increasing, albeit slowly
Introduction and release are a process which takes time; it must be done systematically, scientist Vibhu Prakash told DTE
‘Severe pressure will be put on forests, ecosystems in Nusantara and the rest of Kalimantan’
Down To Earth speaks to veteran orangutan expert Birute Mary Galdikas on how the shifting of Indonesia’s capital will affect Borneo’s ...
Don’t assume Pantanal’s jaguars are safe. Here is why
Down To Earth speaks with jaguar expert and conservation scientist Fernando Tortato about the road ahead for jaguars in ...
Kuno not ready ecologically at the moment to accept cheetahs: Faiyaz Khudsar
Down To Earth speaks to scientist Faiyaz Khudsar to get a perspective on Kuno-Palpur, where African cheetahs will be ...
African cheetahs may adapt well to Kuno-Palpur: Dereck Joubert
Down To Earth speaks to veteran wildlife filmmaker Dereck Joubert about how the cheetah introduction project in Kuno-Palpur could pan ...
‘The difference between Chernobyl and Fukushima wildlife is the wolf is extinct in Japan’
Down To Earth speaks to James Smith from the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom about the proliferation ...
‘Hong Kong’s lost tigers show us a species once gone, cannot return’
Down To Earth speaks to journalist John Saeki about his upcoming book on the lost tigers of Hong Kong
‘Barbary lion reintroduction in north Africa is possible but needs long-term plans’
Down To Earth speaks to Simon Black, who teaches conservation science at the University of Kent in the UK ...
‘Molecular data and fossils are the gold standard for research on the tiger’s origins’
Down To Earth speaks to Samrat Mondol, associate professor at the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, to know more ...
Understanding zoonotic diseases: ‘Humans tend to be naive to emerging viruses’
Population growth, rapid urbanisation and climate change are leading to the increase in new viruses, says Pranav Pandit, veterinary ...
Understanding zoonotic diseases: ‘Global human interaction has eased transmission’
Globalisation and population explosion have led to increase in human-to-human transmission of viruses, says Sanath Krishna Muliya, project scientist at ...
Understanding zoonotic diseases: ‘Enthusiasm for game meat to have prime impact on human health’
Human encounters with new viruses have increased significantly in the past decade, says Nirmal Kumar Gali from Hong Kong ...
COVID-19: ‘It is easy to blame bats than to look at ourselves’
Bat expert Tigga Kingston flags societal behaviour, human prejudice amid increasing vilification of bats for novel coronavirus
