Africa’s vultures dwindling, says study

Raptors diminishing across continent due to a number of reasons

Last call

Will the song of the sarus be heard when the wetlands of Uttar Pradesh are drained?

Dolphins return

Satellite Maps Forests

Jhum farming destroys forest cover in northeast India

New cicada species in Nagaland underscores need for conservation

The main threat to many cicada species is their rapidly diminishing natural habitat

Simian alert!

The orangutan is threatened by poaching and habitat destruction

Grazing concerns

Over-grazing is leading to the degradation of pasture lands

Making a beginning

Community management of natural resources is still in the nascent stage

Corals, maths and satellites

A new mathematical formula will scan satellite images to study changes in coral reefs

NEEDED: A WAKE-UP CALL

Foresters need to throw away their blinkers. Scientists need to prioritise areas of research

Sri Lanka's Tree Frogs

Flight to extinction

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

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

INDIA

Jumbo problem

Spate of elephant killings forces rethink of conservation policy

Time for version 2.0: IUCN Red List outdated and unreliable, claim scientists in new paper

Existing practice disallows wider participation and use of researcher knowledge, defeating purpose of conservation

A third of freshwater fish face extinction: Report

As many as 16 species were declared extinct in 2020 alone

Prevention, not mitigation needed to solve South Africa’s plastic problem: WWF

Interventions needed across plastic value chain rather than just waste management

Wetland crisis

Industrial activity threatens the wetlands of east Calcutta

Ancient fossil throws light on earliest migrants from Africa

Humans might have interbred with Neanderthals

Indonesia’s forests degrading fastest in the world, palm oil blamed

About 40 per cent of total forest loss occurred within protected forest lands

Pine pressure

Pine culture has altered the Himalayan landscape with disastrous effect on its fragile ecology

Deep sea blues

Bad news for the oceans, is bad news for the environment, the economy and humans