Why there is a need to protect wildlife?

In a deeper analysis, it will appear that protecting wildlife is vital for the present as well as future generations

World Environment Day 2016: Sustaining our wildlife

We must depart from narrow solutions and find opportunities in our mountain landscapes to secure larger habitats, writes ICIMOD's Rajan Kotru

Cut it out

A critique of recent suggestions to hack tusks, horns and other poachers' delights to save endangered animals.

Giving villagers a slice of the pie

A programme in Zimbabwe strives to conserve wildlife and maintain development on the premise that villagers will utilise natural resources in a …

China syndrome in tiger trade

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Catch me a colossus

Catching Veerappan, who amuses himself upsetting the government cart, is like trying to cage a titan. The State is in no position to meet his …

Leopards: How India can learn to live with them

Their easy adaptability brings them close to human settlements. Can we coexist?

Bihar forest department recovers 155 skinned migratory birds from poacher

The man used to supply meat of migratory birds to various parts of north Bihar

Elephant carcass with missing tusks found in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj

It is the second dead elephant found in Odisha in a week

Fighting rhino poaching in India, CSI-style

A tool developed in South Africa could help catch poachers in India

Assam floods: about 250 animals, including 17 rhinos dead in Kaziranga

The death toll is likely to rise after the entire floodwater gets out of the park

WWF sues Thapars

Poachers threaten rhinos

Caught between floods and poachers, one-horned rhinos live on the edge

Ban whaling

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Sale of African ivory stocks

Tiger farming controversy must not be framed in moral terms

Odisha grants forest staff immunity to use firearms to fight poachers

Unless misused, the move will now give forest staff protection from arrest & criminal proceedings for firing

Odisha had half of India’s wildfires on March 13 — & poachers may be to blame

Principal Chief Conservator of Forests alleges hunters setting fire to target wild animals; one suspect arrested 

Cheetahs in Kuno next week: Leopard attacks, poaching, stress of capture remain concerns

Those in charge of the cheetah project told DTE that they had factored in concerns for the reintroduced species  

Two elephants found dead in Odisha’s Keonjhar

At least 7 elephants have died under unnatural circumstances in Odisha in the last 7 months

How forest elephants move depends on water, humans and also their personality

A new study offers some answers for forest elephant management, but also highlights complicating challenges

Fishing trawler with dead sharks seized in Odisha

Coast Guard seized the trawler carrying the carcasses of 250 endangered bull, hammerhead and spot tail sharks in the Gahiramatha Marine Sanctuary

‘India has to change its attitude towards leopards’

Leopard expert, Vidya Athreya responds to alarming report on leopard mortality, says finger-pointing must end