Africa’s Tanzania loses 60 per cent elephants to poaching
Neighbour Mozambique had recently revealed that it lost nearly half of its elephant population in five years
Curse of the horn
Soaring prices of rhino horns have led to a new spurt of poaching in the Kaziranga National Park, Assam. Once heralded as a conservation success …
Panna’s poaching nexus exposed
Staff of the tiger reserve worked hand in glove with poachers, while the state government kept its eyes tightly shut
Peace isn't elusive
After the Pulwama terror strike, the Kashmir debate has reopened. We bring to you an older article from brighter times, which underscores the …
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
India now has 1,706 tigers
At the last count their number was 1,411; experts doubt latest census
The revival plan: India’s journey from destroying cheetah population to reintroducing it
70 years after cheetahs went extinct, India brings 8 African cheetahs to revive the population
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
Mumbai to have a flamingo sanctuary
NGO had sought forest department's intervention to save bird habitat
Lost in woods
Environmentalists see red over wildlife bill in Bangladesh
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
'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
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
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
Last pangolins
The world is running out of time to save its only scaly mammal
Bushmeat poaching rises to unprecedented levels in Kenya
The problem is threatening to wipe out species in the country, says a report
Skewed solutions
The long-awaited wildlife board meeting chalks out a strategy but grey areas remain
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
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 …
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 …
A whale of problem
INUIT, WHALING, AND SUSTAINABILITY:·By Milton M R Freeman, Ingmar Egede et al ·Published by Altamira Press, New Delhi