New poster released to highlight threat to orchids from illegal trade
The poster was released ahead of Save the Himalayas Day 2022 and depicted 11 species protected under the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972
Is climate change killing Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetlands?
During a climate crisis, the world’s largest tropical wetlands must be saved before it is too late
World Elephant Day: It is time to retire Amer Fort’s working elephants
A non-profit, World Animal Protection, has urged the Rajasthan government to retire elephants used to give joyrides to tourists at Amer Fort in Jaipur
Camera traps click ties between species in Sumatra
The traps, deployed for eight years as part of a study, recorded the haunts and habits of dozens of species
Could climate change have brought Delhi's winter birds early?
Migratory birds, which should have come to northern India by November, have appeared in September and October itself
Gene that can boost photosynthesis identified in cyanobacteria
The gene, called activase-like cyanobacterial protein, will improve rubisco enzyme that is key to the food making process and increase …
Global Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (September 16-22)
Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology
18th Conference of parties of CITES: Global conservation's hits and misses
Some excellent decisions taken to protect the Earth's diminishing flora and fauna; in some other cases, better luck next time perhaps
How plants gauge the time of day
Light-sensitive proteins — called photoreceptors — measures time in plants and keeps them abreast of seasons, which is …
US beekeepers lost 40% honey bee colonies in a year: Survey
Beekeepers lost 37.7 per cent colonies during the winter, between April 2018 and April 2019 — the highest winter decline in the last 13 …
India Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (Apr 15-21)
Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of Indian ecology, botany and zoology
This Hawaiian tree snail is the first extinction of 2019
George, of the species Achatinella apexfulva, died on New Year’s Day, 2019
Predators are re-colonising old habitats, finds study
Contrary to popular perception, predators moving into hitherto ‘alien’ environments are only recolonising what they had once lost
Namibia to pay $8,297 to relatives of people killed by wild animals
However, families whose kin have been killed by crocodiles and hippos while swimming and bathing in rivers won’t get any compensation
One in eight bird species in the world faces extinction: study
A study on the state of birds globally says agricultural expansion and deforestation are one of the major reasons for this
Salman Khan convicted in 1998 blackbuck poaching case
All other accused—actors Saif Ali Khan, Sonali Bendre, Tabu and Neelam—acquitted
Malaysia’s last male Sumatran rhino dies
Tam died on the afternoon of May 27 local time of old age illnesses
Global Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (May 20-26)
Zimbabwe sold 97 sub-adult elephants to China, UAE
Cash-strapped southern African country earned $2.7 million
आस्ट्रेलिया में हो रही हैं आग लगने की सबसे अधिक घटनाएं
2015 के बाद 2019 में हुई आग लगने की सबसे अधिक घटनाएं, अफ्रीका भी है आग की चपेट में
In a first, a polar bear has died of avian flu in the Arctic
Ecosystems in polar regions are particularly vulnerable to bird flu because they contain many animals found nowhere else in the world and never …
Free-ranging domestic cats eat 2,084 species globally & are pushing some to extinction
Researchers use a method called ‘observed predation’ to learn what free-ranging cats prey upon using the application of camera traps …
Palaeontologist discovers ancient, enormous Caelocanth species by accident
It grew to be as big as a great white shark
Global Eco Watch: A cooling event caused rice to spread across Asia 4,200 years ago
Global Eco Watch: Iceland will not hunt whales in 2020