Kaziranga loses 10 tigers

With 274 tiger deaths in four years, India records highest toll between two censuses

Almost half of tiger deaths in the last three years were reported outside tiger reserves

Saving the sturgeon

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

Insects at stake

Rare insects in the US now qualify for legal protection

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

'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