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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

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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

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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

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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