CITES COP19 lists sea cucumbers as ‘threatened’

Sea cucumbers perform the same role on the seabed that earthworms perform on land

No home, no fungus

Deforestation protects some frogs from a deadly infection

Earth on verge of mass extinction

Event will be human-induced, warn scientists

Vanishing herbs

Many varieties of medicinal plants and flowers in Darjeeling are facing extinction

Coffee - not for birds

Pygmy hog thrives

Extinction threat

Extinction threat

Extinct!

Roar of the tigers will not be heard in Gujarat any more

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Fish in the net

Vultures on death row

Human persecution is the main cause behind the high mortality of vultures in India

Dad's baby isn't fishy

Unique method to conserve endangered fish stocks

Flawed conservation policies lead to decline in gharial population

Counting large mammals

Some birds respond better to habitat change

According to report

Lions are still being farmed in South Africa for hunters and tourism — they shouldn’t be

In 2019, around 8,000 lions were held in over 350 facilities in South Africa, when the wild population was 3,500

Study finds gaps in conservation efforts in Western Ghats

Team of scientists have estimated the dhole population and its occupancy pattern in 16 protected forest reserves in Western Ghats

Tenth whale carcass found in Odisha in a year

Carcass of a 25-feet-long Sei whale washed ashore on March 13, 2019, taking the total to 10

Here's how government is encouraging illegal trade in red sanders

A contradictory policy towards export of red sanders is fuelling illegality and hurting farmers

Poorer countries do more for the conservation of large mammals

Africa prioritises and makes more of an effort for large mammal conservation than any other region in the world

The environmental costs of Trump's wall

All that concrete will generate millions of tonnes of CO2 emissions and the wall will ravage a unique desert habitat that straddles two countries

Spanish longliner detained in São Tomé for hunting sharks

Inspections revealed that fish holds of the liner contained blue sharks classified as “near-threatened” by the International Union …