How ‘tiger farms’ have turned a wild animal into a species worth more dead than alive

Tigers in parts of east and south-east Asia can come in bottled form, sold openly in industrial breeding centres as tiger bone wine, a concoction …

'Did the blackbuck and chinkara commit suicide?'

There’s a lack of seriousness in prosecuting offenders under the Wildlife Protection Act

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

Look beyond invasive species

Competition, not predation, is the most influential process that shapes food web  

Watch out for these balloons

Sometimes resplendent, ungainly at other times, frogs are indicators of ecological health

Cut it out

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

A change for the worse

Is a state government notification an indication that Gujarat, once considered to be committed to wildlife protection, has now moved industry to …

Employment schemes fail to ease rural poverty

The government's employment generation schemes, laudable though they may be, have yet to achieve their goals. Not involving intended …

When the land shouts

Van Gujjars in the Shivalik foothills vociferously claim managing authority of the Rajaji National Park

I've found a new species of monkey

Mukesh Chalise , the general secretary of the Natural History Society of Nepal and an assistant professor of zoology at Kathmandu University, has …

Wildlife parts, live chameleon seized in Odisha’s Jajpur

Forest officials trying to find whether two arrested persons are poachers or couriers  

Global Eco Watch: Polar bears could become extinct by 2100, says study

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

A violent forest

Reconciling conservation and livelihoods in Sundarban mangroves

Worldwide legal wildlife trade increased by 2,000% since 1980

The trade has become highly unsustainable, a report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services …

Protection of wildlife

Abandoned !

Months after five elephants were killed in the Corbett Tiger Reserve, authorities are yet to take corrective measures

Wildlife bureau issues advisory on timely reporting of crimes

In absence of timely data, enforcement agencies cannot act against criminals

Travel mystery of a turtle

New test tracks vanishing loggerheads in Florida

Whales’ killer ways

Footage>> Whales • The UK

The monkey-catcher

Monkeys exact revenge on a naturalist

An ardent activist passes away

While Pakistan angers Arabs for its bustard

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Smuggling species