End of innocence

Sumana Narayanan inadvertently walks the thin line between a curio and wildlife contraband

Noamundi is easy to mine

Silent killers

Snares laid in inhabited areas in Goa have citizens and officials caught in a noose of concern

The butterfly effect

As India continues to lose its rich butterfly diversity at an alarming rate, a handful of individuals work towards creating newer habitats

Last pangolins

The world is running out of time to save its only scaly mammal

Tracking the elusive metallic spider

Sighted only twice in India since its discovery in 1899, the peacock spider is in huge demand as a pet in the West

Shark in a soup

The fish, high in demand for its fin, is dwindling in the Indian waters. Will a mere ban on finning protect it?

Chaos in the iron age

After iron ore plunder in Bellary and Goa comes a Supreme Court order that adds confusion to chaos

Goodbye Indian mermaid

Tricks of the e-waste trade

New rules offer no help to informal operators. They ignore reality and are likely to be toothless  

Homeless hilsa

The ocean fish that swims against the tide to spawn in rivers is moving away from Bangladesh

Single window dumpyard

India wants global waste. So it gets what it wants  

Chinese honey route

Thriving honey laundering traced to Asian giant

From the blurbs

Trunk call

Magazine>> Ivory Trade • South Africa

Bare bone structure

China syndrome in tiger trade

BOOK>> HANDBOOK ON WILDLIFE LAW ENFORCEMENT IN INDIA• by Samir Sinha • Traffic India and Natraj Publishers • Rs 495

Concealed trade

E-Commerce>>Wildlife • Japan

Four leopards killed every week in India: WWF

Report warns that the endangered cat may reach near extinction as happened with tiger

South Asia

Tourism-dependent nations value elephants

Back on menu: bird nest soup

News - In Short

Shifting ground

After cracking the whip on mining offenders, CEC is now going easy on them

Curse of the horn

Soaring prices of rhino horns have led to a new spurt of poaching in the Kaziranga National Park, Assam. Once heralded as a conservation success …