Should ivory trade be legalised?

International ban on ivory trade has neither reduced elephant poaching nor the volume of the illegal trade. Is it time the trade is legalised? …

Blue whales face risk from ship strikes

Shipping lanes intersect with feeding areas of the world’s largest mammal

Making slow headway

Hurdles in the way of a buffer zone in Arunachal tiger reserve

Bull to bull's eye

Borneo’s wildlife habitat to shrink by a third in 65 years

Over 30 per cent of island’s mammals likely to become extinct

Japan leads opposition to establishing marine sanctuary for whales

Proposal for a sanctuary in the South Atlantic Ocean has been repeatedly submitted to the International Whaling Commission in recent years, but …

Search for prey in diminishing habitats drains cheetahs of energy, says study

Scientists are studying factors that may have affected their population

Hunters turn protectors

Traditional hunters Phase Pardhis are part of an initiative to save critically endangered lesser floricans

No mermaid fairytale

A scientific conservation programme notwithstanding, the dugong remains in peril

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Poor enforcement, weak laws make poaching an easy game

Salman Khan might be in the arclights because of his poaching misadventures. But many people routinely get away with killing protected animals; …

Winged wonders: We should not resent bats, because we need them

The pandemic has magnified fear of bats, but their conservation is crucial to prevent such events from arising again

Another dolphin hunting season

Seal hunt kicks off amid protests

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