Smuggler arrested

Save the wild

INDIA

Nike and Adidas are using kangaroo skin to make sneakers. Is that necessary?

How popular shoe manufacturers are contributing to the world’s largest commercial slaughter of land-based wild animals

Global pet trade in amphibians is bigger than we thought

There is a strong bias for certain types of amphibians; six amphibian families contributed disproportionately high numbers of traded species

18th Conference of parties of CITES: Global conservation's hits and misses

Some excellent decisions taken to protect the Earth's diminishing flora and fauna; in some other cases, better luck next time perhaps

Last chance for the big cat

Several countries are getting tough with tiger poachers and traders in what may be the final attempt to save the magnificent beast:

Global Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (February 24 – March 1, 2020)

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

Global Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (June 3 - June 9)

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

Tigers: dwindling fast

COSTA RICA

Sixth mass extinction: IPBES9 report stresses on sustainable wildlife management

Indigenous people must be involved in drawing national policies, says body

India Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of April

Every Sunday Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of Indian ecology, botany and zoology. Here are all of them for April 2019

Chinese nationals accused of driving Namibia’s wildlife to extinction

They are allegedly involved in escalating poaching of rhinos and elephants in Namibia and the illegal export of rhino horn and ivory

China bans trade in rhino horns, tiger bones

The Chinese people may resent the restrictions, but the government has to crack down on trafficking in products from rhinos and tigers or else …

Sri Lanka destroys ivory shipment worth US$3 Million

Lanka is the first South Asian country to publicly destroy seized ivory

Princess arrested

Nilgiri plundered

SADC COUNTRIES

THAILAND

Elephant poaching

Furore over the koala

SINGAPORE

Taiwan

Legal wildlife trade

Globally, legal wildlife trade has increased more than five-fold in value in the last 14 years and was estimated to be worth US $107 billion in …