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India’s conservation efforts have received the highest score among five countries assessed for the viability of their wild tiger populations and may hold lessons for Southeast Asian countries where tigers appear headed for extinction, scientists said on January 28....

TRAVELLING circuses featuring wild animals looks set to be outlawed in Madrid. The city council today approved the amendment to the regulatory ordinance of Tenure and Protection of Animals 2001, acknowledging the circus facilities do not meet the ‘physiological,...

The Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project moved a step closer to reality, after the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) cleared construction work in and around wildlife zones in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), but only after the builders create safe passages...

As leaders gather in Davos this week, ecological challenges are on top of the agenda. The World Economic Forum Global Risks report released earlier this month cast shadows on our common future. The top three most likely risks for 2019 are all...

In the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in northern Tanzania, humans and animals coexist peacefully Where: Established in 1959 as a multiple land use area, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (in northern Tanzania) includes the Ngorongoro Crater, the world’s largest caldera....

At nearly 80, Cindy Kamler continues to care for broken animals, but it’s getting hard to keep up. NINA RIGGIO January 18, 2019 “The birds of prey fly into the beams of the mirrors at the energy project and fall hundreds of feet to the ground,” Cindy Kamler, founder...

Modern-day garbage dumps, which are full of harmful products and chemicals, are emerging as a serious threat to animal and plant life. A new study in Uttarakhand has found that these dumps are resulting in a shift in food habits of birds and wild animals. The main...

Mary Sloan sensed she was being followed while hiking near Stanton Lake. “There were other people along, but I was alone at the time,” she recalled. Alone, that is, except for the mountain lion that had crept to within about 15 to 20 feet by the time Mary spotted it....

Keepers of the Wild Nature Park is a nonprofit organization providing a safe haven for indigenous and exotic animals that have been abandoned, neglected or abused. Located along one of the most scenic sections of Route 66 in Arizona, it offers a pleasant and...

Entebbe, Uganda — At the Uganda Wildlife Conservation Education Center in Entebbe, a steady stream of school buses drops off hundreds of children from across eastern Uganda. The center, located on the shores of Lake Victoria, about 42 kilometers (26 miles) south...

Wildlife Crimes Control Unit of Department of Forests rescued 50 wild animals and birds from pochers at Tongi Bazar in Gazipur district on Tuesday. In a joint raid by WCCU and Rapid Action Battalion headquarters, a WCCU team rescued one monkey, 19 cotton gooses, five...

Eleven countries bordering the seas of East Asia on Thursday issued a joint declaration affirming their commitment towards the conservation and sustainable development of coastal and marine resources in the region. The Iloilo Ministerial Declaration titled “East Asian...

Bengaluru, Nov 28: The tortoises have landed! 51 Indian star tortoises coveted for their star-patterned shells have safely made the journey from Singapore back to their native home, India. A total of 190 tortoises were confiscated by the Singapore authorities, of...

Gandhinagar, Nov 20 Alarmed over the Canine Distemper Virus (CDV) outbreak that claimed the lives of 23 Asiatic lions in their only abode Gir in Saurashtra, the Gujarat government on Tuesday launched a Rs 351-crore project for the conservation of the wild cat.The...

Survey spots 221 varieties of Butterflies in Parambikulam Tiger Reserve As dawn breaks, Parambikulam Tiger Reserve, one of India’s protected forest areas, turns into a garden with dream flowers floating all over. The sight repeats as dusk falls in. Wafer thin canvases...

The Amur Falcon Conservation Week and Festival 2018 was held from the 8th-10th of November 2018. With an aim to create awareness on conservation as well as exploit the potential of eco-tourism in and around the Doyang Valley, the events on Conservation, Adventure...

Environmentalists in Guernsey are calling on people to rethink how they manage their land and gardens to better support wildlife. A team of conservationists have launched a campaign called the Pollinator Project. It involves planting seed on private and public land to...

Kochi: Landslips and heavy rains unleashed in Kerala forests causing flooding in downstream did not have any major impact on its precious wildlife including elephants, tigers and leopards, a top state forest official said on Thursday. Principal Chief Conservator of...

One of the last areas of untouched wilderness in the world could face irreversible damage. Building a hydroelectric dam in Selous Game Reserve contravenes Tanzanian environmental laws for this World Heritage Site, as well as threatening Endangered bird species. Inside...

Expressing concern over the increasing number of jumbo deaths in India, an international organisation involved in the preservation and protection of wild animals globally has been working to legally secure five designated elephant corridors in Assam. The International...

The biannual six-day wildlife monitoring exercise, using the Android-based mobile application, began at Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR) here on Monday. Under Phase IV monitoring of tiger reserves by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), the pre-monsoon...

Scientists have called for an urgent action to help save Kenya's wildlife population from the current massive decline. The Kenyan and German scientists who conducted an aerial survey of wildlife in the East Africa nation said wildlife population has declined by around...

Less than seven months into the year Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary has already taken more than 30 orphaned wombat joeys into their care. This number was only expected to increase as winter progresses and more wild animals are killed on Tasmanian roads. Bonorong director...

A global biodiversity collapse is imminent unless we take urgent, concerted action to reverse species loss in the tropics, according to a major scientific study in the journal Nature. In their paper 'The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems' an international...

Does your idea of a thrilling holiday mean heading to a wildlife destination and being in the midst of nature? As scary as it may sound for some, for wildlife lovers there's no greater feeling than being in the wild and sighting animals in their natural habitat....

On an island off Australia’s north-central coast, researchers are conducting an unprecedented experiment: mixing endangered animals that have evolved genetic defences against their biggest foe with those that haven’t, in the hope that their offspring will take after...

Fencing of forest area, where the wildlife movement is considerably high, is one of the major preventive measures the forest department had to take up to prevent the wild-animals from crossing the busy roads. Shrinking forest cover and laying of roads through forest...

In a curtain raiser event held in New Delhi, Madhya Pradesh tourism board announced the first AdventureNEXT three-day event by Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) in Bhopal from December 3-5, 2018. This will be the first AdventureNEXT event in Asia and it...

BROKEN BOW — The Glover River is one of the last rivers in the state that remains undammed over its full length. Flowing through McCurtain County in far southeastern Oklahoma near the borders of Texas and Arkansas, the Glover offers about 33 miles of scenic beauty...

The Central government has begun a review of the Wildlife Protection Act (WPA), enacted in 1972 and last amended in 2006 under the Congress-led UPA government. The Union environment ministry has constituted a six-member drafting committee to this effect, which has met...

A group of large wild boars is on the loose from a Yukon farm, and the owner has until midnight Wednesday to deal with them "by whatever means necessary." "They're true to their name — these animals are quite wild. They don't respond well to human interaction," said...

(Millbrook, NY) In the eastern US, risk of contracting Lyme disease is higher in fragmented forests with high rodent densities and low numbers of resident fox, opossum, and raccoons. These are among the findings from an analysis of 19 years of data on the ecology of...

WELLINGTON, Fla. (CBS12) — Panther Ridge Conservation Center in Wellington provides a home and haven for some of the world’s most majestic and endangered big cats, such as cheetahs, leopards, jaguars, servals, ocelots, and caracals. Headkeeper Sadie Ryan and Executive...

LONDON: Two beluga whales will set off from an aquarium in China to a secluded bay in Iceland next year, where they will live in a sanctuary billed as the first of its kind for cetaceans, the SEA LIFE Trust charity said on Tuesday. Little Grey and Little White will...

COLOMBO: Six new species of minute goblin spiders discovered in the forests of Sri Lanka have been named after fictional characters described by English children’s writer Enid Blyton. The goblins Bom, Snooky and Tumpy and the brownies Chippy, Snippy and Tiggy made...

Arctic-dwelling bowhead whales have been described as the “Louis Armstrong” of the oceans after scientists revealed the highly varied style of the songs the species produces during its breeding season. The bowhead, which has the largest mouth of any living animal,...

Helga Bårdsdatter has found the perfect job − if not the one she had in mind. “I dreamed of becoming a vet,” she told me during my expedition cruise in Norway on Hurtigruten’s MS Fram. “I went to an agricultural high school where I learned to drive a tractor and use a...

When one of the ocean's top predators washes up dead on a beach, it's likely that something fishy must have happened. On Sunday (June 17), beachgoers found a juvenile male great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), weighing 500 pounds (225 kilograms), and reaching 8...

The number of areas where water voles are found across England and Wales has fallen by almost a third in 10 years, a study reveals. The river mammals, immortalised as Ratty in Wind in the Willows, were once common in ditches, streams and rivers across the UK. But...

A man who killed a heron to rescue a baby duck from its stomach has been cautioned by police. After witnessing the bigger bird eat the newborn, he decided to act, according to North Wales Police Rural Crime Team. “Strangely he actually did rescue the duckling alive...

WOODSIDE: Koko, the gorilla who mastered sign language, has died. The Gorilla Foundation says the 46-year-old western lowland gorilla died in her sleep at the foundation's preserve in California's Sana Cruz mountains on Tuesday. Koko was born at the San Francisco Zoo,...

With a range of prey and nest sites, peregrines are thriving in US and European cities. Karl Mathiesen investigates how they have adapted to city living.   A male peregrine falcon comes screaming out of the afternoon sun. Moments before a lesser black-backed gull...

Wildlife poachers in Kenya will face the death penalty, the country’s tourism and wildlife minister has reportedly announced. Najib Balala warned the tough new measure would be fast-tracked into law. Existing deterrents against killing wild animals in the east African...

A Google Doodle pays tribute to the renowned biologist and filmmaker Heinz Sielmann, on what would have been his 101st birthday. Despite creating a wide range of wildlife documentaries over his life, Sielmann gained the nickname “Mr Woodpecker” after the release of...

Sumburgh Head lies at the southern tip of mainland Shetland. This dramatic 100-metre-high rocky spur, crowned with a lighthouse built by Robert Louis Stevenson’s grandfather, has a reputation for being one of the biggest and most accessible seabird colonies in...

Scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have, for the first time, tracked the lives of leopard seals as they migrate around Antarctica. The team followed these formidable predators as they move from the frozen Antarctic sea-ice to the more northerly...

CAIRO: A rare blue whale, the largest animal on Earth, has been sighted in the Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba for the first time, Egypt's environment ministry said on Thursday. It said on its Facebook page that Environment Minister Khaled Fahmy has instructed observation...

A steep decline in coral cover right across the Great Barrier Reef is a phenomenon that “has not been observed in the historical record”, a new report by the Australian Institute of Marine Science says. The institute, Australia’s government-backed marine research...

The number of large fish species in Australian waters has declined by 30% in the past decade, mostly due to excessive fishing, a new study says. Marine ecology experts are calling for changes to fisheries management after publication of the study by scientists from...

Actor and environmental activist Adrian Grenier is perhaps best known for his lead role in the HBO series Entourage. But he has also made a name for himself at the forefront of the international fight to reduce the world's reliance on single-use plastics, in order to...

A whale has died in southern Thailand after swallowing more than 80 plastic bags, with rescuers failing to nurse the mammal back to health. The small male pilot whale was found barely alive in a canal near the border with Malaysia, the country’s department of marine...

Wildlife conservationists, researchers and the State Forest Department’s Wildlife Division have upped the ante to generate awareness and improve surveillance to protect frogs in the rainy season. Nirmal U. Kulkarni, herpetologist and expert member of the Goa State...

When an angry farmer gripping a shotgun yells, you listen. Jorge had lost his temper, but conservationists from Andean Cat Alliance (Alianza Gato Andino - AGA) were accustomed to working with upset farmers; they protect endangered Andean cats in “high conflict” zones...

Elephants are afraid of bees. Let that sink in for a second. The largest animal on land is so terrified of a tiny insect that it will flap its ears, stir up dust and make noises when it hears the buzz of a beehive. Of course a bee’s stinger can’t penetrate the thick...

On April 9, suspected members of an armed militia gunned down five wildlife rangers and their driver in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It was the worst attack in Virunga’s bloody history, and the latest in a long line of tragic incidents in...

Battling forest fires for over a week, the fire-fighting crew in Uttarakhand heaved a sigh of relief today with many places lashed by rain, which is expected to extinguish the active fires and leave enough moisture in the grass which will prevent the further...

"The big beast stood like an uncouth statue, his hide black in the sunlight; he seemed what he was, a monster surviving over from the world's past, from the days when the beasts of the prime ran riot in their strength, before man grew so cunning of brain and hand as...

As the world watched the end of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, a different sort of athletic drama unfolded on the planet’s second-highest mountain. For the last eight weeks, a team of Polish alpinists has battled some of the most powerful forces in nature in an...

Singapore: Singapore on Wednesday mourned the death of the first polar bear born and bred in the tropical island city, put down by wildlife authorities after a five-year battle with health difficulties stemming from old age. Inuka, a 27-year-old animal who grappled...

Juan Martín Cuevas is a marine conservationist with the Argentina program at WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society). Since late 2015, he has been working to develop and implement a conservation plan for sharks and rays in the Patagonian Sea. Cuevas contributed this...

Fossil spores and bird family trees suggest that deforestation was a key factor in determining who survived 66 million years ago. When a nine-mile-wide asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, it exploded with a force greater than a million atomic bombs and wiped...

It started as a well-meaning effort by Google technology workers to look after feral cats living around their headquarters in Silicon Valley. But now the felines are suspected of killing rare owls in a nearby wildlife refuge, leading environmentalists to condemn the...

Forest officials on Friday captured a crocodile from a pond , a week after the reptile had drifted into a village near Agra causing panic among the locals. The nearly four-year-old Mugger crocodile was caught using a trap cage and later released into the Chambal. The...

Kathmandu: A 16-year-old girl from Haryana has registered her name as the youngest woman to scale the world highest peak on Thursday evening, according to local media. Born in Hisar of Haryana in north-western India, Shivangi Pathak climbed Mount Everest exploring a...

It holds about half of Earth's liquid water, covers approximately 64 million square miles (166 million square kilometers) and extends deeper than any other body of water on the planet. The Pacific Ocean is familiar and mysterious at the same time, with much of its...

On April 21st, we held our third Spring Wildlife Conservation Expo at the beautiful Cañada College campus in Redwood City. The weather was warm and toasty, the sky was a clear blue, and the crowd was all smiles—it was a picture-perfect afternoon with all the right...

Conservationists are mourning the death of 11 lions that were killed with poison in a national park in Uganda. The three lionesses and eight cubs are thought to be victims of villagers who blame wildlife for killing a cow. The Uganda Wildlife Authority said it was...

Australia has built the world’s longest feral-cat-proof fence in an attempt to prevent the felines from wiping out endangered native marsupials and birds. As part of the largest feral-cat eradication project ever, the fence will allow conservationists to not only stop...

BENGALURU: While at work, Sathisha (52) manages infrastructure at the Infosys campus in Mysuru. Otherwise, he is a herpetologist, conservationist and a wildlife photographer. The first time he rescued a snake was when he was 13. It had entered his house in Udupi and...

A group of 23 bison has been released into the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, the biggest batch yet in an ambitious scheme to re-establish the species in the wild. The European bison, a hulking beast which stands six feet tall and can weigh up to 2,000lb,...

SYDNEY: Australia unveiled, on Monday, a US $34 million plan to help bring its koala population back from the brink, following a rapid decline in the furry marsupial's fortunes. The Australian Koala Foundation estimates there may be as few as 43,000 koalas left in the...

Secret World Wildlife Rescue, in East Huntspill, took in the young gull which had three hooks in its foot, mouth and wing. The charity’s animal carers managed to remove two of the hooks but had to visit the vets to remove the one in its mouth. The gull was eventually...

For many people, a safari is a once-in-a-lifetime dream trip. When I finally had the opportunity to go on an African safari a few years ago, it was just as incredible and as life-changing as I had imagined. It was so amazing that now, I can’t wait until my son is old...

HYDERABAD: Ocean sciences experts from Hyderabad and the United States of America(USA) have now linked global warming to the unchecked bloom of a special type of algae in the Arabian sea. The algal bloom is leading to the death of commercially and ecologically...

WASHINGTON: There are probably 303 species of mammals left to be discovered by science, most of which are likely to live in tropical regions, according to a predictive model developed by ecologists.

Arctic-dwelling bowhead whales have been described as the “Louis Armstrong” of the oceans after scientists revealed the highly varied style of the songs the species produces during its breeding season. The bowhead, which has the largest mouth of any living animal,...

From listening to some of India’s prominent conservationists discussing wildlife management to finding friends in dogs, cats, hedgehogs, monkeys, peafowl, mongoose, and even an elephant—life for Dr Latika Nath has never been less than extraordinary. An undergraduate...

One sultry afternoon in October 2002, a small paddy farmer (who prefers not to be named) in Sonitpur district in the northeastern Indian state of Assam bought a few packets of Demecron, an organophosphorus-based pesticide. Demecron was then banned in the district;...

The Endangered Species Act, our nation’s cornerstone wildlife protection law, is under assault by the very people who are tasked with implementing it. In the last few months we have seen representatives of the administration attack protections for African lions and...

KANNUR: The district administration is all set to launch a community-oriented adventure sports program in the district as part of a campaign for preventive healthcare against lifestyle diseases. The programme, ‘Month of Adventure’, will be inaugurated on May 6 and it...

Travellers are developing a taste for an adventure in India, with a study conducted by India’s major experiential travel booking platform, Thrillophilia, revealing a 178 per cent increase in demand for adventure and active travel during the past three years....

Only in Gir The lion, which once roamed across southwest Asia but is now restricted to the 1,400 square kilometre (545 square mile) Gir sanctuary in Gujarat state, was listed as critically endangered in 2000, with its population under threat due to hunting and human...

JOHANNESBURG: International conservationists in Madagascar have been treating more than 10,000 critically endangered radiated tortoises that were seized from traffickers, who had crammed them into a home with no access to food or water. 

SINGAPORE: Singapore on Wednesday mourned the death of the first polar bear born and bred in the tropical island city, put down by wildlife authorities after a five-year battle with health difficulties stemming from old age.

A single female fish may release anywhere between 11 to almost 58 million eggs per clutch, they found. Tampa: When fishing, local laws often require anglers to throw back any fish that are too small. But a study Thursday found it is more important to toss back big...

Two suspected members of a gang of poachers were arrested and 18 kilos of tiger bones and a tiger skin were recovered from them in Bijnore district of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday.

The Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District in Wisconsin had a problem. Due to tightening state and federal regulations, it had to help decrease the amount of phosphorus in the 540-square-mile (1,400-square-kilometer) Yahara River watershed. It was already removing 95...

The Western Ghats of India is home to so many flora and fauna that news of the discovery of new species lurking in these forests is commonplace.

Thanks Annechira Shiv (gandhi) for dropping by to our office

The Forest Survey of India (FSI) has “completely revamped” the forest fire alerts system across the country, bringing in the ‘Forest Fire Alerts System Version 2.0’, making the entire process automated, including night-time alerts.

You might not have heard of a pangolin, but they are widely claimed to be the most illegally trafficked mammal in the world.

A carpet of sweet yellow floral delights fill the grasslands. Village courtyards are packed with small and big cane baskets. An intoxicating aroma swells the air. And a camouflage of rusted brown leaves laced with sporadic Mahua beauties sprawl on the pathways. The...

NAGPUR: A leopard strayed into an unoccupied house in densely populated Police Nagar area, adjoining Lata Mangeshkar Hospital, Digdoh, and was cornered in a bathroom early on Sunday morning. It was tranquillized and captured, and later released in Hingna range the same evening.