The Gujarat government will draw up an action plan on wildlife conservation in association with International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). “In the first week of February, we shall be drawing
Logging violations, disenfranchised local communities, the cutting of endangered tree species without valid authorisation, destruction of threatened Bonobo habitat and worldwide export of suspect timber.
For more than 30 years, environmental laws ranging from the Clean Air Act to the Endangered Species Act have provided a formidable weapon for activists and ordinary citizens trying to protect the
To revive the population of big cats in Sariska national park in Rajasthan's Alwar district, one tigress will be relocated there tomorrow from Ranthambore national park, state forest and environment minister
This report summarises the experiences and lessons learnt from the 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership (2010 BIP), as well as providing details of 27 global indicators developed in support of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora convention has passed a resolution backing conservation of Asian big cats. It has asked China to restrict captive breeding of tigers. "We oppose any proposal to farm wild carnivores, which are easy to breed in captivity but difficult to release in the wild. Promoting farming to satiate the demands of oriental medicine would lead to laundering of wild specimens,' said Rajesh Gopal, secretary of the National Tiger Conservation Authority in India.
The stork has become an endangered species throughout Quebec except maybe in this quaint French-Canadian town near the Vermont border, where it lands form time to time with things like cheap cotton
Sunny Sebastian Endangered Gangetic River Dolphins can be sighted in the river in Dholpur district of Rajasthan A rare sighting of a Gangetic river dolphin in the Chambal river.
Coming to the rescue of the endangered one-horned rhino and other threatened species in Kaziranga National Park in Assam, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed both the Ministry of Environment
Tigers are thriving in the forests of southern India, thanks to the absence of organised poaching gangs here. Recent studies have confirmed that tiger reserves in the south have a better record of conservation
Some months ago, a woman was caught with a tiger cub in her bag at the Bangkok Airport. She had put the sedated cub in her bag along with a few stuffed toy tigers. However, airport staff spotted the cub
After a lot of flip-flops, the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) has once again agreed "in principle" to take over the service of water supply from the public health engineering department. Senior
Incidents of rhino poaching and the illegal horn trade are at the highest levels in over 20 years, placing the survival of these species at great risk, according to a recent report by the International
Scientists are embarking on a last-ditch effort to help the world's most endangered marine mammal avoid the fate of its Chinese cousin, the baiji.
For so long now, there has been almost nothing but bad news about the likely fate of gorillas. They have been the victims of deforestation and incessant warfare in Central Africa. They have been hunted for meat. They are susceptible to the Ebola virus. Estimates in the 1980s suggested that there were roughly 100,000 western lowland gorillas - one of four subspecies. Since then, that number was thought to have declined by half.
SOME of the richest and most biodiverse forests in Indonesia will soon be opened up for commercial exploitation under a plan drafted by the new government of Aceh. The chairman of the Aceh parliament's
Visitors to America's zoos and circuses are regularly informed, via signs and announcements, that these institutions are working overtime on behalf of endangered species. Indeed, you can visit
A federal judge ordered the Obama administration on October 20 to review whether polar bears, at risk because of global warming, are endangered under U.S. law. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan wants the Interior Department to clarify a decision by the administration of former President George W.
Poachers slaughtered a record 668 rhinos in South Africa in 2012 as demand for their horns continued to surge on the black market in Asia, the government said yesterday. Over 60 percent of the slaughtered
Zambia has banned the hunting of lions and other endangered wild cats such as leopards because it sees more value in game viewing tourism than blood sport, the country's tourism minister said on Thursday.
