Which way ahead for biodiversity conservation? Answer may lie in communities

This International Day for Biological Diversity, let’s look at the pros & cons of involving communities in conservation …

‘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 model in Kenya, other African countries

Sealing the dragon's lair

Indonesia decides to close its Komodo island, home to the world's largest lizards, to tourists in order to conserve the animals

Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were

A tour of some of the world's most iconic and endangered species, and what we can do to save them. 

Network Nature: The Place of Nature in the Digital Age

How do people avoid the stresses of the digital age?

Land Bridges: Ancient Environments, Plant Migrations, and New World Connections

Land bridges are the causeways of biodiversity.

Our Oldest Task – Making Sense of Our Place in Nature

This is a book about nature and culture. 

Defending Biodiversity: Environmental Science and Ethics

Environmentalists are called upon to defend their conservation efforts, yet most lack training in the ethical dimensions of conservation biology …

Wild Things, Wild Places: Adventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet Earth

In Wild Things, Wild Places actress, author, and conservationist Jane Alexander offers a moving first-hand assessment of what is being done to …

African countries and the state of their environments: the best and the worst

Countries with poorer governance didn’t necessarily have a worse environmental outcome

Life on Earth at risk

A series of landmark reports show rapid biodiversity loss, land degradation driving species to extinction

Exploitation changes leopard behaviour with long-term genetic costs

Removing too many individuals, especially of a particular age or sex, can destabilise a population

Amid gloom of COVID-19, rhino breeding centre begins at Patna zoo

The first pair of one-horned rhinos named Ganesh and Lali have been released into the pen

Saving a Caribbean Polly

Jon Paul Rodríguez, a Venezuelan naturalist, has been awarded the Whitley Fund for Nature’s gold award for his 30-year-long odyssey to save …

India to host Global Wildlife Programme from October 2

The GWP will address issues related to illegal wildlife trade across 19 countries in Asia and Africa

New lizard species discovered in Mumbai; more pan-India studies needed

At least 10-15 new species of lizards have been discovered in the last 2-3 years

Noise Pollution: An ignored element in Great Indian Bustard conservation

Along with all other measures to revive Great Indian Bustard numbers, the aspect of regulating noise pollution levels needs to be …

Action is needed to save West Africa’s critically endangered chimpanzees

Are Pan troglodytes verus that live outside protected areas in West Africa doomed? May be not

Is the house sparrow out of the woods?

The house sparrow declined in urban India in the last two decades; however, conservation efforts might have just stopped its journey to extinction

Global Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (May 20-26)

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology

Four regional biodiversity assessments released; focus is on the way we use resources  

About 500,000 square kilometres of land in Africa might be degraded if the region continues to follow the same resource usage pattern

Private players express interest in financing biodiversity conservation

India currently spends about US$ 2 billion per year but needs US$ 5-15 billion more to meet biodiversity conservation targets

The Earth's biodiversity could be much greater than we thought

A widely touted study proposes a total of 8.7 million species, but they could be 10 times more

Treasures of Silent Valley

Down To Earth traveller Jemima Rohekar's stunning photos of the Silent Valley National Park opens up before us a diversity of life rarely experienced

Why should only jumbos matter?

The outrage over the death of a pregnant elephant in kerala highlights our skewed notion of biodiversity and its conservation