Our Oldest Task – Making Sense of Our Place in Nature
This is a book about nature and culture.
3,500 captive elephants are used to entertain tourists in India: Study
Report focuses on situation of captive elephants across Asia, including India
Two million feral cats to be killed to save Australian wildlife
An estimated US $4.8 million to be spent on culling the cats
AAD2024: Project Cheetah has become a glorified safari, says Ravi Chellam
CEO of Metastring Foundation and coordinator of the Biodiversity Collaborative talks on the challenges entailing conservation of big cats
Simply Put: Destination Jamnagar
We once killed 600,000 koalas in a year. Now they’re Australia’s ‘teddy bears’. What changed?
As many as 800,000 koalas were killed in Queensland in 1927 before the government reversed course
When a tiger reached Delhi’s backyard
Down To Earth plots the path of ST-2303
Kanpur’s Kurmas: This pond in the heart of the city is a turtle haven
A turtle population flourishing in a pond in a straggling, unplanned city is no less than a miracle, say experts
Earth has lost 60% of its animals since 1970
Is the world losing its biodiversity faster than it can replace? A new report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has some ominous news
These self-taught doctors treat over 2000 wild birds a month in Delhi
Brothers Mohammad Nadeem and Mohammad Saud, have been rescuing birds for over 14 years. Every month, they treat 2000 birds out of their own …
‘We inform locals about the wildlife in their backyard’
Sanjay Gubbi, who recently set up a nature information centre in Karnataka, says this it’s the first such centre to disseminate information …
Twelve cheetahs from South Africa arrive in Madhya Pradesh
This is a continuation of ‘Project Cheetah’ under which eight cheetahs from Namibia were reintroduced to the Indian landscape …
Global Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (January 13 – 19, 2020)
Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology
Himalayan ‘gold rush’: Growing livelihood reliance on lucrative and vulnerable trade
Trading in caterpillar fungus has bolstered livelihood in western Himalayas but also raised worries of exploitation
Which way ahead for biodiversity conservation? Answer may lie in communities
This International Day for Biological Diversity, let’s look at the pros & cons of involving communities in conservation …
Wildlife crimes
The Union government has cut the funds released under three flagship wildlife schemes even though poaching remains rampant
World Whale Day special: How is whale excreta saving the world
An abundance of whale poop means an abundance of phytoplankton and diverse marine life. The whole ocean thrives
Trillions of cicadas about to emerge from underground in 15 US states
Scientists say this is a sign that despite pollution, the climate crisis and dramatic biodiversity loss, something is still right with nature
Anglican clergy joins efforts to stop oil drilling in the Kavango
A Canadian company has the rights to drill for oil in more than 35,000 square kilometres of the Kavango Basin in Namibia
‘State protection for wildlife not a panacea for conservation’
Down To Earth speaks to Brain Heath, CEO of Mara Conservancy and director of Seiya Ltd, about the conservation model in Kenya, other African countries
Congolese giant toad can transform itself to look like a deadly viper and make right noises
The Brazilian galliwasp lizard that poses like a toxic millipede and the zebra shark, which can mimic a highly poisonous banded sea snake are …
Canada goose, a prominent symbol of North American wildlife
The species that feeds predominantly on aquatic and terrestrial vegetation has a pan-continental distribution
Sealing the dragon's lair
Indonesia decides to close its Komodo island, home to the world's largest lizards, to tourists in order to conserve the animals
161 wild animals died in road, rail accidents in 2018
According to Wildlife Protection Society of India data's, both rail and road accidents killed leopards the most
Coral disease threatens reefs of US Virgin Islands
The disease — believed to be Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) — has left corals in the region with large, stark-white …
