Earth Day 2020: Wildlife runs wild amid COVID-19

With humans across the world cooped up in their homes due to COVID-19, wild animals have made appearances in human-dominated areas

66th Standing Committee meeting of CITES underway in Geneva

National Ivory Action Plans, domestic legislation and additional measures to protect endangered species being discussed

Making a killing

Only poachers profit from rules and regulations that alienate local people from natural resources

Human-wildlife conflict among greatest threats to animal species: WWF and UNEP report

Problem as much a development and humanitarian issue as a conservation concern, it says

Gory conservation

Assam debates dehorning rhinos without proper studies

Kashmir human-wildlife conflict: Children being increasingly preyed upon by black bears, leopards

Experts have blamed rapid urbanisation and deforestation for the human-wildlife conflict in the Kashmir Valley

Kenyan wildlife policies must extend beyond protected areas

Without policy reforms that integrate conservation with all other sectors of land use, landscapes in Africa may need expensive, large-scale …

Community-based wildlife conservation is bringing success to Tanzania

A few villages set aside land for wildlife conservation in return for the majority of tourism revenues, allowing rural communities & private …

Land clearing isn't just about trees – it's an animal welfare issue too

More than 50 million birds, mammals and reptiles are thought to be killed each year in New South Wales and Queensland by the removal of native …

Global Eco Watch: Kazakhstan’s smallest saiga population records mass calving

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Breaking the ice

The long-standing people-wildlife dispute in Sariska Tiger Reserve is closer to a resolution

Global Eco Watch: Bumblebees bite leaves to make plants flower early

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Survey results on voluntary meat regulation released

The result, released at United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), did not carry voices from indigenous communities  

Who's to blame?

Management of protected forests is a hotly debated issue. In the absence of a sound policy based on a scientific approach, there are as many …

COVID-19: Surge in illegal wildlife trading amid nationwide lockdown

Poaching incidents reported in Karnataka and Maharashtra

On elephant’s trail

The animal’s movement can help ascertain seasonal boundaries

Lions are less likely to attack cattle with eyes painted on their backsides

As part of an expanding non-lethal toolkit, this simple, low-cost approach could reduce the costs of coexistence for some farmers

Increasing human footprint cutting Antarctica wilderness: Study

Data from 2.7 million records show how human activity has risen in Antarctica over the last 200 years

Kaziranga braces to curb human-wildlife conflict ahead of monsoon

Water levels rise inside the park every year, prompting animals to move highlands in areas of heavy settlements

How Maharashtra’s dam on ‘Human’ river threatens tigers

The dam proposed at Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve threatens to submerge more than 90 per cent of a 7-km forest area

Will Fuleco score the final goal?

Three-banded armadillo, the real-life counterpart of FIFA World Cup's official mascot, is in danger of extinction

Global tiger population up by 22 per cent

India is the largest contributor to the increase in tiger population

TEARS FOR CROCODILES

Elephant crushed by train in Odisha’s Sambalpur

This is the 29th such death in Odisha in a decade  and the second death in Sambalpur district within a month

Union Budget 2020-21: Big chunk goes to tigers and elephants

Allocation for other species reduced