Commitment made to protect threatened seabirds and waterbirds

Conservation of waterbirds is important as they offer a source of livelihood to people

International Horseshoe Crab Day: Species under grave threat in Odisha

Hundreds of the crabs have been killed in Odisha each year to supply their meat and shells to Jharkhand, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and other states

Obama pledges to create largest marine reserve in Pacific Ocean

Move meant to check illegal fishing and invasive and damaging energy explorations in the region; committee to address environmental concerns will …

Kerala prepares data bank on marine biodiversity

Initiative enters second phase; first phase covered 20 km of coastline

'We are using the sea as a dustbin'

The Indian coastline no longer belongs to its traditional custodians—the small fisher people. A jamboree of development—cities, SEZs, …

Defiant Japan to hold annual whale hunt

Ignores threat from conservation activists who have vowed to disrupt the programme

Traditional knowledge of fisher people may be included in the process of identifying marine biodiversity hot spots

Some countries noncommittal about identifying ecologically and biologically sensitive marine areas in high seas and territorial waters

Australia says no to protecting Japanese whale hunters

Does not buy country’s argument that it is whaling for scientific reasons