Jumbo in captivity

Small Woodbrown butterfly rediscovered in Sikkim after 120 years

The species was first discovered in Sikkim in 1887

Tigress killed

To cull or not

The killing of a gorilla in the Cincinnati Zoo renews the moral existential dilemma

The monkey's paw of Lutyens' Delhi

More than 1,000 cases of monkey bites are reported every day in Indian cities

South Africa bans leopard hunting for this year

The hunting industry adds US $410 million to the country’s coffers every year

Activists divided on rhino poaching numbers in South Africa

The numbers of rhinos killed in 2015 range between 1,160 and 1,500

Tiger pathways

Future of tigers depends on how well forests are connected, facilitating gene flow

Simply Put: Insect apocalypse

How many ants live on earth? At least 20,000,000,000,000,000

Total biomass of this species is about 12 million tonnes, while the combined biomass of wild mammals and birds is two million tonnes and seven …

Lockdowns brought down poaching rates in Africa, but rhinos still under threat

Poaching numbers went down in 2020 thanks to the COVID-19 lockdown; they went up again in 2021

Cheetah relocation: Wild cats likely to arrive Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno by end of August

Staff and authorities of Kuno National Park are struggling to keep leopards out of the 500-hectare enclosure made for the cheetahs

Win-win strategy: These countries’ conservation practices have helped their economy too

Countries across the world have identified and adopted measures to conserve wild species that can help develop sustainable livelihood opportunities

In the dark, freezing ocean under Antarctica’s largest ice shelf, we discovered a thriving microbial jungle

Everywhere we look, we find microbial communities making use of whatever energy source is available, creating the foundation for all of Earth&…

Bihar plans to sterilise, not cull, nilgais

State government plans to sterilise 5,000 nilgais in 2022, says Bihar forest minister 

EO Wilson’s lifelong passion for ants helped him teach humans about how to live sustainably with nature

Wilson, who died December 26, 2021, at the age of 92, discovered the chemical means by which ants communicate

A 140-year-old Tassie tiger brain sample survived two world wars and made it to our lab. Here’s what we found

Overall, the thylacine brain resembles that of its carnivorous marsupial relatives (dasyurids, like dunnarts, quolls and Tasmanian devils) more …

How bio-restoration is helping revive degraded mangroves in Sunderbans

Involves plantation of native salt-tolerant grasses, a diverse set of carefully identified mangrove species in different zones of degraded …

Global Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (September 9-15)

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology  

Patrolling ordered on the Ganga in Bihar to conserve its dolphins

The move came after reports emerged that fishermen in Vaishali and Saran were netting small fish, the main food of the dolphins

Red wolf: A canid’s cautionary tale

The story of America’s red wolves is a warning and one we will see retold again and again by other species if the new Endangered Species …

New glanders action plan: Equine fairs won’t be allowed near infected zone

The plan released by the government on July 26, 2019 has updated existing guidelines related to the deadly equine disease

Why the WWF’s ‘Fortress Conservation’ model is ethically wrong

As India gets ready for the July 24 Supreme Court verdict on possible eviction of its forest-dwelling communities in response to conservationists&…

Enact a special act for protecting India’s natural pharmacy

The country’s medicinal plants, which are used in a number of alternative systems of medicine, are in danger of becoming extinct due to …

'Frogs are beautiful'

Wildlife filmamker Ajay Bedi talks to Down To Earth about his recent documentary, 'The Secret Life of Frogs' that released commercially recently