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
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
राजस्थान में दिखावा साबित हुआ राज्य जैव-विविधता बोर्ड
अंतर्राष्ट्रीय जैव-विविधता दिवस पर विशेष: राजस्थान म…
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
इंसानों के कारण व्यवहार बदल रहे हैं चिम्पांजी
आबादी घटने के साथ ही चिम्पांजी का व्यवहार परिवर्तित हो …
Astro-ecology: Counting orangutans using star-spotting technology
A new collaboration between astrophysicists, conservationists and ecologists is aiming to save rare and endangered animals such as the Great Apes …
Pronking in Ganjam
How blackbuck have managed to survive and thrive in this Odisha district is a conservation success story
A unique dragon
The population of the Southern Flying Lizard of the Western Ghats is fast dwindling and needs conservation
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