'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

Back on menu: bird nest soup

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

Mozambique, Tanzania fail to curb poaching

Poachers refuse to pay fine, hunting firm violates wildlife rules

Hunting for good

Borneo’s wildlife habitat to shrink by a third in 65 years

Over 30 per cent of island’s mammals likely to become extinct

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

'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 …

China admits to tiger skin trade at international forum

Around 1,600 tigers have been traded globally since 2000

Flood threatens Kaziranga

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

Another suspected poaching incident in Pench

Authorities fail to keep check

Mount Abu notification sparks protests

Freight workers unaware of wildlife smuggling tactics

Traffickers disguise illegal commodities as common cargo

Bytes

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. …

Four leopards killed every week in India: WWF

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

Jumbo problem

Spate of elephant killings forces rethink of conservation policy

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