Savage harvest
Five tuskers fall victim to poachers in a hunting ground called the Corbett Tiger Reserve. Authorities grope in the dark with little ammunition
Piecing together problems with conservation in India
Documentaries>> The Great Indian Tiger Crisis directed by Arindam Mitra and Chandramohan Puppala, producer, Arindam Mitra 77 mins Tiger The …
In short
Wildlife mismanaged
The biggest threat to wildlife comes from foresters themselves
Indifferent villagers, guards doom Project Tiger
Indiscriminate poaching, abetted by government apathy and sympathy from villagers displaced from their traditional forest habitats, is fast …
Creating history in a hurry
Poaching led to record rhino deaths in Kaziranga
Poaching, habitat loss push Africa’s elephants to the brink
IUCN declares African forest and savanna elephants as ‘critically endangered’ and ‘endangered’ based on latest population …
Peace isn't elusive
After the Pulwama terror strike, the Kashmir debate has reopened. We bring to you an older article from brighter times, which underscores the …
Africa’s Tanzania loses 60 per cent elephants to poaching
Neighbour Mozambique had recently revealed that it lost nearly half of its elephant population in five years
Curse of the horn
Soaring prices of rhino horns have led to a new spurt of poaching in the Kaziranga National Park, Assam. Once heralded as a conservation success …
Insects at stake
Rare insects in the US now qualify for legal protection
Panna’s poaching nexus exposed
Staff of the tiger reserve worked hand in glove with poachers, while the state government kept its eyes tightly shut
Let the tiger roam
India now has 1,706 tigers
At the last count their number was 1,411; experts doubt latest census
Kingpin of poachers, Sansar Chand, set free
Delhi city court says he cannot be charged under law against organised crime
Five arrested in connection with tiger poaching in Tadoba Andhari reserve
Forest officials employed known poachers to guard waterholes
Ministry of environment and forests may undergo bifurcation
Wildlife meet proposes bifurcation of MoEF
Goodbye Indian mermaid
Blues for the big cats
Everyone knows of the tiger's endangered status, but the government seems unwilling to face the reality. So far, it has tried to resolve the …
Unable to contain poaching, South Africa shifts rhinos to secret locations
The government hopes these measures will protect the fast-diminishing rhino population
'Resurgence of smuggling in Myanmar threat to wild Asian elephants'
Smugglers resort to torture to capture and train elephant calves, says report by wildlife monitoring network
Mumbai to have a flamingo sanctuary
NGO had sought forest department's intervention to save bird habitat
Forest staff helped poachers in Panna Tiger Reserve: report
This resulted in wiping out of tiger population in the reserve in 2008
Healing the battle scars