Imagining IEDP

A US $67 million question: how would the eco-development project money be spent?

Sikkim government to recruit villagers as mountain guardians

Worst yellow fever outbreak in decades kills hundreds of rare monkeys in Brazil

Over 600 monkeys have died in rainforest region with no provision for vaccinating them

Global tiger population up by 22 per cent

India is the largest contributor to the increase in tiger population

DWINDLING ELEPHANT POPULATION

Selective saving

Victims of a green cause

Andhra salt-makers want recognition as farmers

World’s smallest dolphins may go extinct soon

Just 50 Maui's dolphins remain thanks to overfishing

Glaciers in western Canada to lose 70 per cent volume by 2100: study

Runoff from the melting ice will peak between 2020 and 2040

Gene that acts as moisture sensor in plants identified

The find can help in engineering drought-resistant crops

IUCN adds 361 birds to Red List

87 of these face extinction threat

Bat Tracks

On the tracks of two Indian bat species: one found in abundance, the other most elusive

In Brief

In Short

Guns, saws and double standards

Wildmeat consumption at source countries greater threat to protected terrestrial animals than international trade

Around 70 per cent of species studied are hunted for wild meat consumption

Are Amur tigers ‘re-wilding’ China?

A camera-trap video recently captured a tiger family deep inside China

South Africa’s Cape Town restores landfill as natural reserve

Bracken Nature Reserve is rich with flora and fauna post-restoration

Tibetans breathe easy in high altitude with gene from extinct human species

Unusual gene variant prevents blood from congealing

COSTA RICA

Self-withering: Biodiversity Convention’s new global framework raises basic questions

Fairness and North-South balance embedded in the treaty made the West uncomfortable with it

Humans and mice are similar, yet different creatures, says study

Research will help experts to better test medicines meant for humans on mice

Delhi ranked second among world’s most water-stressed cities

Five out of 20 world’s most water-stressed cities are in India, says study

Scientists map microbes in healthy humans

Will help in diagnosis and treatment of diseases