Feral animals are running amok on Australia’s islands – here’s how to stop them

Eradicating feral animals from islands can be expensive, but new research shows where to get the biggest bang for our buck

At the mercy of chromosomes

Sets of it decide whether a plant will dominate or vanish

Problem fish

Farmed salmon escape their pens, threaten wild cousins

Simply Put: Green cover

How alien invasive plant species threaten Western Ghats

Forest fires and man-eating tigers make for easy headlines but what about invading flora in a forest?

Mother of Machiavellianism

Invasive plant prepares native lizards for a toad fight

Environmental DNA-based assay to detect invasive catfish in waterbodies

North African Sharptooth catfish is one such species that was illegally introduced in India for aquaculture purposes

‘Gray blanket’ over Australia: Genetics may have aided European rabbit invasion of continent in 1859, says study

Researchers managed to trace the ancestry of Australia’s invasive rabbit population right back to the southwest of England

Removing alien plants can save water: We measured how much

Positive effect of clearing alien trees higher in dry years compared to wet years, study predicts

Invasive alien species threaten agriculture and biodiversity in Africa: Study

Africa may lose about $3.66 trillion annually due to impact of IAS on agriculture

Pentagon UFO videos steal limelight from COVID-19

Older, leaked clips of unidentified flying objects now confirmed by US defence department

A weed and a tale

In the forests of Kanyakumari, an invasive species has been proliferating since the 1960s. It is time to remove it altogether

Crazy ant gets a name

Species that gave pest exterminators a hard time identified

Have Alligator Gar in India started to reproduce? Not for the moment

A photograph showing a kingfisher holding what appears to be a juvenile Alligator Gar created a minor scare among fish experts

All alien invasive species are guilty until proven innocent

The dogma that invasive alien species should be eradicated is now suspect

'There are more than 60,000 tree species in the world & my book had room for only 80!'

Jonathan Drori, author of Around the World in 80 Trees tells S S Jeevan about the phylogeny, ecological services, and the sociological …

Poaching taking a toll on gorilla, zebra population: IUCN

The Eastern Gorilla has moved from ‘Endangered’ to ‘Critically Endangered’ category with its total population now …

Weeding out belief

Myth that invasive species dominate new habitats debunked

Measured efforts

Complete restoration of ecosystems may not be good

Culled, efficiently

A new model that cuts down the costs of controlling invasive animals

Native species over invasive: This Tamil Nadu village is a pioneer in climate action

Vast patches of wastelands in the region were invaded by the alien, invasive Karuvelam tree or prosopis juliflora

Aliens in Toda paradise

The pastoral Toda community in the upper Nilgiris is losing its Shola grasslands to invasive species

The ethical and cultural case for culling Australia's mountain horses

Horses need to be removed from Australia's mountains.The debate now is around ethics and their role in Australia

A crab’s coup strategy

Control reproduction of competing species

A brewing invasion