TRAMPLED DESTINIES

What happens if conservation is based on half-baked knowledge? Ask a person rendered homeless by wildlife managers "No conservation strategy …

WORKING IN ISOLATION

A mutual lack of trust and understanding between forest officials and wildlife scientists may be responsible for the mismanagement of India's …

CONSERVATION TO DEATH

Misguided conservation efforts are leading to depletion of biodiversity and exploitation of poor people

Flight to extinction

One in eight birds will vanish in the next 100 years, says a new report

G8, developing countries launch Potsdam Initiative

A fine balance

The business of ecotourism is set to boom worldwide. Who will gain and who will lose?

Rudderless

Ecotourism is the new buzzword in the Indian government

The enterprise

Keeping both the environment and economy afloat

High Altitude Dilemma

It is an intriguing view from the high mountains of Bhutan. To the east lies Nepal, grappling large-scale environmental degradation. To the north …

Shrouded in controversy

A mountaineering expedition into the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve revives the debate on ecotourism and people's rights over forests.

A watershed plan

Recurrent droughts and floods coupled with mass poverty, chronic unemployment and pervasive malnutrition are the major challenges before India. …

क्या है आईयूसीएन की रेड लिस्ट, इसके बारे में जानना क्यों हैं जरूरी?

आईयूसीएन की रेड लिस्ट दुनिया भर में प्रजातियों के संरक्षण की स्थिति का सबसे बड़ा सूचना स्रोत है

बड़ी मछली समझकर गंगा डॉल्फिन को मारा, तीन गिरफ्तार

प्रधानमंत्री की अध्यक्षता में दिसम्बर 2019 में राष्ट्रीय गंगा परिषद (एनजीसी) की पहली बैठक में प्रोजेक्ट टाइगर की तर्ज पर 'प्रोजेक्ट डॉल्फिन' को मंजूरी ...

This Indian Ocean snail species may be first victim of deep-sea mining

The scaly-foot snail, found at only three spots on the Indian Ocean floor near Madagascar, has been included in the updated IUCN Red List

Study finds gaps in conservation efforts in Western Ghats

Team of scientists have estimated the dhole population and its occupancy pattern in 16 protected forest reserves in Western Ghats

India's only wetland cat is under multiple threats

Downlisting the Fishing Cat to “Vulnerable” from “Endangered” in the IUCN Red List merely on the basis of numbers was an …

Microplastic pollution could push whale, shark towards extinction: study

These species are getting exposed to toxic chemicals through breakdown of microplastics in their digestive system

Spanish longliner detained in São Tomé for hunting sharks

Inspections revealed that fish holds of the liner contained blue sharks classified as “near-threatened” by the International Union …

Malta allows recreational hunting of 5,000 turtle doves

The birds were recently added to the IUCN's 'red list' of species at risk of being wiped out

Sri Lanka's Tree Frogs

Fading beauty

Changing climate conditions in the Northeast are wiping out the fragile orchids. Will other species follow?

INDIA

Jumbo problem

Spate of elephant killings forces rethink of conservation policy

The god of ecological things

Ecotourism: Scrambling for paradise

Does tourism always have to be a threat to the environment? Not anymore, claim the promoters of the globally emerging industry of ecotourism. …