If India’s laws do not adequately punish those who commit sexual assault on animals, they may move on to unleash their cruelty on humans too

The recently-concluded 'Gaj Mahotsav’ in Delhi celebrated the Indian Elephant, an animal that is fast losing its habitat in India

Experts from the fields of history and conservation tell Down To Earth about why, despite featuring so frequently in Indian history and culture, the elephant is struggling to find a home for itself in India

The Tumakuru Forest Division has submitted a proposal to the Karnataka government for declaring the Bukkapatna State Forest as a Wildlife Sanctuary. If adopted, it will be a boon for the biodiversity and ecological health of the region

A new study says that it will be challenging to reconcile oil palm expansion and African primate conservation as most areas suitable for growing palm oil are primate habitats

This last-minute decision came after the Jain community protested against livestock export to the Middle-East

The resorts have been built in the major elephant corridor in the area, something that the court was especially displeased about

How blackbuck have managed to survive and thrive in this Odisha district is a conservation success story

That terrestrial species like the rhino and tiger are targeted for use in Traditional Chinese Medicine is well known. What is not is that this hocus-pocus system also claims millions of animal lives in our oceans every year

Experts say 80 per cent of food production depends on pollination, but pesticides are affecting pollinators like bees

Wildlife Conservation Trust recommends measures to achieve a win-win solution for development and wildlife

While forest dept says the villagers have agreed to move, activists call it a lie

The well-intentioned verdict throws up various legal and ecological questions

Gill Braulik, who has been studying Indus River dolphins in Pakistan for over 15 years, speaks to Down To Earth about the future of the animal in both Pakistan and India

Dredging, freight transport, pollution, and a lack of management plan leaves India’s only dolphin sanctuary under threat, and a drop in numbers has experts worried

It suggests measures for managed motorised access into such areas for bear conservation

Few wildlife enthusiasts have tracked leopards more closely or known them more intimately than jonathan and Angela Scott, who have made the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya their home for over 40 years. They speak to Deepanwita Gita Niyogi about their book, The Leopard's Tale, that chronicles the secret and risky life of two leopards and their cubs

This is the first time since 1997 that red sanders has been placed under the ‘near threatened’ category by International Union for Conservation of Nature

The Green Mahanadi Mission would fiercely impact the livelihood of farmers and cattle herders

The union territory’s administration has sent a proposal to delist the animal from Schedule 1 of the Wldlife Protection Act ‘in order to control their growing numbers’

They killed a protected species and can be fined or imprisoned for it

Sanjay Gubbi, who recently set up a nature information centre in Karnataka, says this it’s the first such centre to disseminate information in a vernacular language

The National Board of Wildlife’s recommendation that state governments use Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code while dealing with wildlife emergencies may be useful but is not enough

On the first-ever World Chimpanzee Day, we should consider the ways we can ensure that future human generations can enjoy sharing the earth with our closest living relatives

The Earth is losing more and more biodiversity every day, and we should all be worried

Researchers found evidence of 14 species of native animals that are extinct now by analysing DNA from fossils

Youngsters in northern Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province are giving up their guns to become a driving force behind wildlife conservation

Members of the Association of Responsible Krill decided to voluntarily stop fishing for the crustaceans in order to ensure fisheries are sustainable

Most of these involved crop and property damage, shows data by the Wildlife Conservation Society

Most males in the area have fallen prey to power lines built by Suzlon and GETCO

Animal rights experts and lawyers hail the move, calling it a good evolution of law

Herders in villages on the outskirts of Ladakh's Hemis National Park were involved in initiatives that helped reduce attacks on livestock and make the snow leopard a symbol of fortune

The UNESCO World Heritage Site is home to half the world’s mountain gorillas

Northern River Terrapin, Clouded Leopard, Arabian Sea Humpback Whale, and the Red Panda were added to a recovery programme for critically endangered species

The population of the Southern Flying Lizard of the Western Ghats is fast dwindling and needs conservation

Petition filed against proposed broad gauge conversion through Melghat 

Cause of death included getting entangled in wire fencing and being attacked by stray dogs

This is the fifth GIB to have died due to collision with power lines in the last one year

New zoos in the country would be designed as per the manual

New report highlights how many wild plants used in everyday products are sourced without any consideration to supply sustainability

The hump-backed mahseer, native to South India, has been given a scientific name in a race to save it from extinction

A fascinating history of how red jungle fowl from India is the progenitor of all chickens served across the world

Eruption followed a series of nine earthquakes

India may not have killed sharks in a “genocidal proportion” ever, but ecological balance demands zero tolerance, says the court

Local farmers and communities are succeeding to conserve crops and wildlife where government has failed in one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots in northeast India

Ramdev's corporate behemoth Patanjali's claim that Indian firms do not have to share benefits for using bio resources is troubling

जहां जानवर घूमते थे, अब वहां हाथी ट्रेन के नीचे आकर कटकर मर जाता है तो कभी कोई हिरन, जंगली सूअर, तेंदुआ या नीलगाय वाहनों के नीचे आ जाता है। 

The Kashmir red deer is the only surviving sub-species of red deer in the Indian sub-continent

In Kanyakumari Wildlife Sanctuary, thousands of hectares of land leased to private contractors is threatening wildlife in the region 

It is one of the 17 mega biodiversity-rich countries and accounts for 7 to 8 per cent of the recorded species of the world

These 10 species are the most likely to go extinct in the next few years

Know the most likely animals in India to become extinct soon

Coral reefs along the east coast of Africa have been badly hit due to ocean warming and acidification. This has hit tourism badly. Some efforts, however, are underway to revive them

The species may face minimal threat for survival as it was discovered in an unpolluted area

85 juvenile sharks visited various spots of the island nation’s coast in a single season, says study

An ancient wolf lineage in the Himalayas needs an identity and conservation attention

Contrary to popular perception, predators moving into hitherto ‘alien’ environments are only recolonising what they had once lost

The Hunnic and Mongol invasions caused people in the region to transform from Indo-European to Turkic speakers

A  study in western Tanzania shows that poachers take risks to widen their livelihood options and improve their situation

Yak herders from Bhutan, Nepal, and China met with reindeer herders from Norway, Russia and found surprising commonalities in the challenges they face, especially climate change

The plan to build a massive hydropower dam in Sumatra as part of China’s immense Belt and Road Initiative threatens the habitat of the rarest ape in the world

Between the impact of climate change, pollution, and overfishing, the Sher Mahi is dwindling away

The US President’s plan to wall off the US-Mexico Border could end any efforts by jaguars to re-colonise land north of the Rio Grande

The newly found species faces threats from road traffic, habitat loss, and a possible fungal infection, say scientists

Dolphin flesh and blubber is being used as bait to ensnare catfish, endangering the species

We, a team of Wildlife Institute of India (WII) scientists, reached this sobering conclusion recently after conducting a complex and statistically-intensive survey in the state

बरामदे की घास पर दो-तीन गौरैया फुदक रही हैं। अब गौरैया बहुत कम हो गई हैं। गौरैया क्या, कौए, गिद्ध सभी कम हो रहे हैं। यह चिन्ता की बात है क्योंकि पक्षी कुदरत में अहम भूमिका अदा करते हैं।

The struggle of one village at India’s southern tip to save itself from corporate interests is a tale in itself

IUCN report cites pollution, over-harvesting of resources and land clearance among primary threats

The power company laid transmission lines in protected areas without getting necessary permissions

A bare reading of the procedure outlined in the Guidelines makes it obvious that it is not facilitating a scientific analysis to secure wildlife habitats but only seeking to involve interested parties

A team of scientists came to this conclusion after testing fecal samples and swabs collected from 10 hatcheries in the country

The colour bar in African conservation has come to occupy the centre of public perception, driven mostly by the social media

However, families whose kin have been killed by crocodiles and hippos while swimming and bathing in rivers won’t get any compensation

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

How do people avoid the stresses of the digital age?

Land bridges are the causeways of biodiversity.

The pygmy hog, the smallest member of the pig family, was almost wiped out, but a careful breeding programme, as well as taking care of the security concerns and maintaining its habitat, has br

Although the parasite that carries the disease Avian trichomonosis was discovered in myna, it may not prove fatal for them

An icon of nature, the Cheetah’s return to India will have a number of benefits

A study on the state of birds globally says agricultural expansion and deforestation are one of the major reasons for this