THAILAND

Policing the forests

The Supreme Court decision to direct state governments to arm forest guards draws flak

POACHING IN BANGLADESH

HUNTING MORE ANIMALS

Rhinos at risk

Lions promoted

‘Russia will do its best to protect the Amur tiger’

Sergey Aramilev is the Deputy Director of the Vladivostok-based Amur Tiger Centre. He is in Delhi to attend the third Asia Ministerial Conference …

Lockdowns brought down poaching rates in Africa, but rhinos still under threat

Poaching numbers went down in 2020 thanks to the COVID-19 lockdown; they went up again in 2021

Stop trading ‘lucky’ owls for black magic during Diwali, says wildlife network

The nocturnal bird is poached in thousands as occult practitioners tout use of their body parts as significant to cure illnesses and fight …

‘Humans wiped out 60% of the world’s wildlife in 44 years’

WWF’s shocking report paints a grim picture of global biodiversity amid calls for a landmark treaty to protect wildlife

Why poachers persist in hunting bushmeat - even though it's dangerous

A  study in western Tanzania shows that poachers take risks to widen their livelihood options and improve their situation

Between the lines

Veerappan's history has been written in red in official records. But support from high places as much as from the ordinary people has sustained him

Trial by terror

Is Veerappan playing his last ace? Or is he having the last laugh on the incompetence of the State machinery?

Another one bites the dust

The world's last surviving male Northern White rhino has died after months of ill health

Rhino poacher in South Africa awarded record 77 years in jail

Kruger National Park, one of South Africa's leading tourist attractions, has lost 370 of the animals to poachers this year

This week from the world of science and environment

Here's a weekly round-up of major environment and science news 

On the brink

CAMBODIA

On the brink of extinction

Rule of the gangs

'Final solution' for kangaroos

CONGO

BRAZIL

Unbridled avarice

Catching them poisoned