Second look

Wildlife project under review

Flawed laws

A specific wetlands policy needs to be in place

Animal politics

Too many people

'Forensics can easily be used in wildlife'

Messengers of dirt

Hit and run

How it affects wildlife

Ropeway threat to Girnar’s vultures

Environment minister to clear project after site visit  

Degrees of insensitivity

From the blurbs

Protection warranted

25 mammal species at risk  

A new chain

Seabirds’ feeding pattern linked to fishing boats  

Global Eco Watch: Lions cat nap on Kruger road, with South Africa in lockdown

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India needs to rethink strategies to save its guardians of the wild

Frontline forest staff have limited resources to protect our wildlife and are tasked with fighting back traffickers who are often better equipped

Trophy hunting – can it really be justified by ‘conservation benefits’?

Banning trophy hunting would provide a much needed incentive to develop creative conservation approaches to wildlife protection and human-animal …

Damage to crop and livestock from wildlife continues to be high despite mitigation efforts: study

AS per the study, 71 per cent of the households surveyed had suffered crop loss, and 17 per cent livestock loss

Environmental crime on the rise, says report

More than one quarter of the world’s elephant population has been killed in the past 10 years

Footprints of the wild

Publishers worldwide need to be goaded to specialise in environmental publications, but the fair was piled high with coffee table glossies on …

Wrong route

CONSERVING WILDLIFE:EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION AMOACHES Susan K Jacobson Columbia University Press US $15

Hunting clubs on pleasure islands

A nonchalant French government plans to throw open its virgin islands to tourists and game hunters

Call of the wild

The popularity of several wildlife species as delicacies is adversely affecting their numbers in China

Capturing nature

CHHOBI MELA–2001·exhibition of photographs on nature and wildlife·The Academy of Fine Arts·Kolkata·January 2001

BBC does a Columbus

The corporation’s Earth News went to town with its discovery of lost tigers that were never lost

Bizarre, serious, jocular

Janaki Lenin captures the animal (and human) world in all its mystique and charm

Global Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (February 17 – 23, 2020)

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