Malta allows recreational hunting of 5,000 turtle doves

The birds were recently added to the IUCN's 'red list' of species at risk of being wiped out

Don't bite that apple!

The government's plans for boosting horticulture to earn foreign exchange do not take into account the hidden costs of deforestation, fertiliser …

BONE BAZAAR

Two small border towns, Tachilek in Myanmar and Mae Sai in Thailand, thrive on illegal trade in animal products. ANIL AGARWAL and SUNITA NARAIN …

Turning turtle

Olive Ridley sea turtles have been coming to the Gahirmatha coast in Orissa for thousands of years for mass nesting. But for two consecutive …

Bad Medicine

First there were the quacks. Then came the mass manufacturers of substandard herbal drugs and cosmetics. Cashing in on the goodwill of …

‘Need to go beyond elephant numbers’

Mahesh Rangarajan, chair of the elephant task force, talks to Sumana Narayanan on the future of elephant conservation in India. The task force …

Yet another hypothesis to explain decline in vulture population

Another theory has implicated a commonly used veterinary medicine for the large-scale disappearance of vultures from the Indian sub-continent. …

Time for version 2.0: IUCN Red List outdated and unreliable, claim scientists in new paper

Existing practice disallows wider participation and use of researcher knowledge, defeating purpose of conservation

Terai damming away its wildlife

The stink of onions

Sunderbans threatened

SOUTH AFRICA

NEW HEAVEN

Saving an ecosystem

China

LEFT UNPROTECTED

ECOPROGRAMME

Butterflies slip off...

...to extinction if natural forests changes character

SAVING THE RIVER

Dwindling numbers

Trade might is not right

What's wrong with global negotiations today?

Relocating to resuscitate

Algal Gloom

Thailand

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