Global Eco Watch: Ice Age woolly rhino unearthed in Siberia

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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

World’s last male northern white rhino placed under armed guard

40-year-old Sudan is guarded 24 hours by rangers at Ol Pejeta in Kenya

China admits to tiger skin trade at international forum

Around 1,600 tigers have been traded globally since 2000

Another suspected poaching incident in Pench

Authorities fail to keep check

Mount Abu notification sparks protests

Living with lions

'Only closure of ivory markets can save African elephants'

Study by Wildlife Conservation Society underlines how illegal ivory trade, which has doubled since 2007, is causing rapid decline in elephant …

Flood threatens Kaziranga

Heightened risk of poaching as animals tend to leave the park area to take shelter on higher land

Elephant poaching rates vary across Africa: 19 years of data from 64 sites suggest why

Poaching rates are lower where there is strong national governance and where local levels of human development are relatively high

‘Most wanted’ green criminal arrested in Zambia

Ben Simasiku, an ivory smuggler, was arrested after Interpol included his name its first ever environmental offenders’ list issued on …

Freight workers unaware of wildlife smuggling tactics

Traffickers disguise illegal commodities as common cargo

Northern white rhino on verge of extinction

Only six members left after male’s death on Friday

Bytes

The key: empowerment

Arouse people's interest in governance

TOURISM & HANDICRAFTS: Backs to the wall

Militancy's most distressing casualties

WATER: Fading glories

Kashmir's dying lakes are choking their dependants

FORESTS: Losing its soul

1,411 tigers, and unanswered questions

Simian alert!

The orangutan is threatened by poaching and habitat destruction

In court

Forest officials kept eyes tightly shut

When it was found there were no tigers in the Panna Tiger Reserve, P K Sen was called to join the government special investigation team. …

No mermaid fairytale

A scientific conservation programme notwithstanding, the dugong remains in peril

Four leopards killed every week in India: WWF

Report warns that the endangered cat may reach near extinction as happened with tiger

Shrouded in controversy

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