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Lost in woods
Environmentalists see red over wildlife bill in Bangladesh
Global Eco Watch: Arm forest guards with guns instead of lathis, suggests SC
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Global Eco Watch: 1.2 million Indians died of snake bites in last 20 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 …
More than 1,300 rhinos fell to poaching in Africa in 2015: IUCN
Poaching of rhinos is fuelled by the demand for their horns in Southeast Asia
Bushmeat poaching rises to unprecedented levels in Kenya
The problem is threatening to wipe out species in the country, says a report
A whale of problem
INUIT, WHALING, AND SUSTAINABILITY:·By Milton M R Freeman, Ingmar Egede et al ·Published by Altamira Press, New Delhi
Skewed solutions
The long-awaited wildlife board meeting chalks out a strategy but grey areas remain
Last pangolins
The world is running out of time to save its only scaly mammal
Murder in the sanctuary
The killing of tigers and of forest guards in Ranthambore is the result of a conservation strategy that took away the rights of the local people …
Global Eco Watch: Reindeer may have been domesticated 2,000 years ago
Should ivory trade be legalised?
International ban on ivory trade has neither reduced elephant poaching nor the volume of the illegal trade. Is it time the trade is legalised? …
Mozambique, Tanzania fail to curb poaching
Poachers refuse to pay fine, hunting firm violates wildlife rules
Hunting for good
Making slow headway
Hurdles in the way of a buffer zone in Arunachal tiger reserve
Once poachers now guards
At Kerala's Periyar Tiger Reserve, deepa kozhisseri finds local tribal communities happily involved in forest protection and ecotourism
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
Illegal wildlife trade growing in two border cities of southeast Asia
Lack of government intervention to be blamed for alarming trade of animal body parts
Borneo’s wildlife habitat to shrink by a third in 65 years
Over 30 per cent of island’s mammals likely to become extinct
BIG CAT CONUNDRUM
The tiger occupies a hallowed seat in India. Ecologists believe that millions of small ecological processes live out their routine lives under …
Swamphen vanishing from Bakhira lake
Global Eco Watch: Ice Age woolly rhino unearthed in Siberia
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