Guns, snares and bulldozers: New map reveals hotspots for harm to wildlife

Researchers identify global hotspots of human impacts on threatened species, as well as “coolspots” where species are largely threat-free

A war for wildlife that is CITES: important battle begins in Johannesburg

CITES - CoP17 is going to be a milestone in conserving last remaining populations of threatened wildlife species and preventing their imminent …

Simply put: Insect species decline

Reverse impact

On the horns of Ahe rhino

CITES is a weapon which can be used only by the armchair rich against the oiling poor

Doomed to extinction

The irreparable damage to the habitat of certain species has already sounded their death-knell

Death to the protected

Too many orchid-seekers

Brouhaha over the coho

For a safer landing?

An experiment ultimately aimed at protecting the threatened whooping crane -- by teaching it to migrate to relatively safer winter locations -- …

Approaching the end

Special efforts are needed or mammals with limited skills will not be able to survive the onslaught of development

ETHIOPIA

Panda protection

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New bird species

Partners in crime

Endangered birdlands

Snail's place

Ban on exports helps protect Indian bullfrog

The decline of the Indian bullfrog was reported recently in a New Scientist article. But, it may be premature to conclude that the species is doomed.

Holding out the olive branch

Around the world, environmental laws are under attack in all sorts of ways

Essential environmental safeguards are being conveniently downsized, diminished, ignored or swept under the carpet all over the world

Gharials of Chambal

The Gharial Conservation Program is one of India's best faring wildlife conservation efforts. R K Sharma, an officer at the Gharial breeding …

Species census

Total number of known species on Earth are rising. A report by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University, US,…

Last blossom

Kangaroo run

Patented panda