Global Eco Watch: Reindeer may have been domesticated 2,000 years ago

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World Rainforest Day: Goliath frogs need urgent conservation measures

Goliath frog population is estimated to have halved in the last 15 years

Elephants found dead in Odisha’s Keonjhar with tusks removed; activists allege poaching

Odisha forest department comes under fire by locals, activists; locals allege neglect

2 leopard skins, bones recovered in Odisha, 1 arrested

At least 155 leopards have been poached across Odisha in the last 10 years

How solar-powered fences mitigated human-elephant conflict in Assam

A biologist employed with a non-profit in the North East describes her organisation’s efforts at reducing negative encounters between …

COVID-19: How wildlife hunting increased in Tamil Nadu amid lockdown

Less availability of meat, long-term unemployment increased instances of hunting in Tamil Nadu

Pregnant elephant’s death in Kerala shows institutional indifference to wild animals

It is not tough to see how serious the Union and state governments of the country are about wild animals

अवैध शिकार के कारण खतरे में प्रवासी पक्षी: शोध

प्रवासी पक्षियों को एशिया प्रशांत क्षेत्र काफी पसंद है, लेकिन अवैध शिकार के चलते यह क्षेत्र इन पक्षियों के लिए कब्रगाह बन गया है

Bihar policeman arrested for allegedly poaching blackbuck, chopping off horns

Blackbucks are found in abundance in Bihar’s Rohtas, Buxar, Kaimur and Bhojpur districts

Yes, jackals are poached in India too

Jackals, those tricksters of our folktales, are poached too, but for reasons entirely different from charismatic species

A losing battle to protect forest elephants in Central Africa  

Unless urgent conservation action is taken, the world stands to lose this charismatic species

Elephant memories apart

Tania James offers an insight into the elephant's mind, while exploring the human-animal conflict through a range of narrative techniques

CITES CoP 2019: Eswatini’s request to trade in white rhino horn rejected

The landlocked southern African country wanted to change the rules that currently forbid the international commercial trade in rhino horns

Centre interviews official named in tiger poaching probe for WII directorship

Samir Sinha, former director of Jim Corbett National Park, is one of the eight officials the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change …

Engage local communities to protect marine life: Study

There is so much lack of awareness that many did not even know which department or authority was responsible for implementing Wildlife Protection Act

Road expansion, deforestation shrinking wildlife in Congo Basin: Study

Accelerating deforestation could also leak carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, contributing to the greenhouse effect

Elephants reduced to a political football as Botswana brings back hunting

Over the past five years Botswana has earned a reputation as the continent’s last elephant haven

Israel moots proposal to regulate trade in mammoth ivory

Tel Aviv wants to prevent elephant tusks being sold as mammoth ones globally

Ahead of CITES CoP18, Botswana tries to lift ban on ivory trade

It is trying to mobilise other Southern African countries to come to a common consensus on how to deal with the rising population of elephants

We asked people in Vietnam why they use rhino horn. Here’s what they said

The findings suggest that the demand for rhino horn is unlikely to fall because people’s beliefs are firmly entrenched. The hope is that …

‘Konkan’s rich biodiversity has lured poachers to its pangolins’

Vishwas Katdare is the founder of Sahyadri Nisarga Mitra, a non-profit operating for the last 26 years, mostly in Maharashtra's coastal Konkan …

Forest officials attacked in the Sundarbans

A party of officials led by the Divisional Forest Officer in the South 24 Paraganas were attacked with sticks when they tried to arrest an …

A peek into the secret lives of Indian spiders

India is home to several unique species of spiders; some are known to science, while many others are yet to be discovered

Fourth 'unnatural' leopard death in Odisha this year

Environmentalists in the state have raised concerns about the safety of the animals given that poaching is rampant

‘China committed to supporting conservation of African wildlife’

Senior Beijing official addresses delegates at a workshop in Nairobi, says China has been and will cooperate with African governments to save …