African cheetahs may adapt well to Kuno-Palpur: Dereck Joubert
Down To Earth speaks to veteran wildlife filmmaker Dereck Joubert about how the cheetah introduction project in Kuno-Palpur could pan out; …
Missing the woods: 18% of India’s 2,603 tree species threatened with extinction
Globally, nearly 30 per cent of trees are threatened due to a number of factors, according to the State of the World’s Trees report
Himalayan wolves prey on as many as 39 species: Study
The study also found that more Himalayan wolves consumed a larger proportion of domestic than wild prey in areas that had regular livestock …
California’s 1st fatal cougar attack in 20 years: These tips can help in encounters with the Americas’ apex felid
Don’t run, bend or crouch; if a cougar attacks, fight back with whatever is at hand, even your bare hands
Shark & ray meat consumption no longer restricted to India’s tribal & coastal peoples: Paper
Tourists and middle- & upper-class domestic consumers emerging consumption classes for elasmobranch meat
How robust is India’s tiger census?
Government officials and independent experts help decode the riddle of tiger estimation
3 tiger cubs mowed by train in Vidarbha forest
The bodies were discovered on Thursday morning; the mother is suspected to be in the vicinity
Shoot-to-kill orders issued in Uttarakhand town for leopard
Hunters are scouring Bageshwar and its surroundings after a leopard that was blamed for several attacks and two deaths, was declared a man eater …
Gondwana ‘wellspring’ of mammalian evolution, not Laurasia: Research
Mammals evolved 50 million years earlier than thought in the southern supercontinent and migrated north from there
Australia to make efforts at saving koalas, 108 other ‘priority species’ over next 10 years
Canberra launches new federal action plan for threatened species conservation and recovery
More than half of Indian bird species are in academic campuses, says WII study
Academic campuses and similar fragmented areas could secure a wide variety of species, say authors
Noida twin tower demolition: How will it affect local flora, fauna
It will take a long time for plants in the area to recover from the effects of dust; birds and mammals will leave for some time
‘Gray blanket’ over Australia: Genetics may have aided European rabbit invasion of continent in 1859, says study
Researchers managed to trace the ancestry of Australia’s invasive rabbit population right back to the southwest of England
Asiatic Cheetah cubs born for the first time in captivity in Iran
The cubs were delivered by C-section at the Touran Wildlife Refuge in the Semnan province east of Tehran on May 1, 2022
Fantastic beasts: How the industrial use of animals in Chinese medicine began
Mao’s Bestiary is a revisionist historical account of the animal drug industry in Mao’s China that also gives context to the current …
Uttarakhand Floods: Respect Himalayan landscape if you want to preserve it, say experts
The recent flooding in Uttarakhand will recur across the biodiversity-rich Himalayas; respecting the landscape is the only way to conserve it
COVID-19: ‘It is easy to blame bats than to look at ourselves’
Bat expert Tigga Kingston flags societal behaviour, human prejudice amid increasing vilification of bats for novel coronavirus
‘There is no camel community for Australia’s camels’
Down To Earth speaks to well-known camel expert Ilse Kohler-Rollefson on Australia’s recent plans to cull 10,000 camels
Sariska tiger died due to heatstroke, cancer: Autopsy report
Activists have criticised the way the tiger was tranquilised, saying it could have played a role in its eventual death
Study finds pathogens in wild snow leopards
Conducted in Mongolia, the research detected pathogens which, though they did not cause illness to the leopards, could make other wild cats ill; …
‘If trees are lost, giant and flying squirrels will lose their arboreal highways’
Three researchers talk to Down To Earth about the real danger facing India’s canopy-dwelling rodents
The Earth is not for humans alone, says NGT over Deepor Beel
Water body on the outskirts of Guwahati has been facing threats from railway tracks and a municipal solid waste plant
Arunachal govt declares Pakke Hornbill Fest as ‘state festival’
Four years after it was inaugurated with a number of objectives, Chief Minister Pema Khandu promises funding
African lions attack humans over larger areas than Indian leopards, tigers: study
Scientists speculate that this is due to social structure differences between the cats; Lions live in prides while tigers and leopards are …
Good that Rajinikanth’s 2.0 talks of birds and cellphones but we need more studies: Experts
Do birds disappear due to electromagnetic radiation caused by mobile phones? Ornithologists think the issue needs more research