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

Back on menu: bird nest soup

Lost in woods

Environmentalists see red over wildlife bill in Bangladesh

CITES COP19: India’s freshwater turtle in danger of extinction

India puts forward proposal to move it to Appendix I; Common hippo, straw-headed bulbul, African elephant at risk too

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

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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? …