Landscapes of hope - Conservation of the Tiger, Rhino and the Asian Elephant
A few years ago WWF-India brought out the Road to Redemption which traced the history of Species Conservation division
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Poaching empties critical Central African wilderness of forest elephants
<p>Elephant populations are in peril everywhere, but forest elephants in Central Africa have sustained alarming losses in the last decade. Large, remote protected areas are thought to best safeguard forest
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Govt’s dilemma: Security of rare bird or of nation?
New Delhi: It’s a case of national security versus one rare endangered bird and some absurdity. The Indian Coast Guard wants to set up a radar installation and a diesel power generation station on Narcondum
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Polar bear ban falls flat at UN meet
A US backed proposal to ban the international trade of polar bear skins, teeth and claws was defeated on Thursday at a UN wildlife meeting over concerns it would hurt indigenous economies and arguments the practice didn't pose a significant threat to the animals.
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Bluefin tuna: can trade bans protect our fisheries?
tlantic bluefin tuna could be the first widely eaten species to be banned from being traded internationally. Would it work, and would it set a useful precedent for other species?
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Wildlife service plans for a warmer world
Akikikis are small birds with limber tongues that are adept at pulling insects from the crevices in tree bark. The olive-and-white birds are also headed towards extinction. Earlier this month, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) listed the akikiki as endangered and warned that global warming may hasten its disappearance by prompting the spread of avian malaria.
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Severe drought puts spotlight on Chinese dams
Southwest China's monsoon-driven climate doesn't bring much precipitation in autumn and winter. But this year's dry season
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MoEF to release 30 vultures to safe zones
PANJIM: The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has taken up a program to save vultures from getting extinct. Under this program, 30 young vultures will be ready to fly by year 2014. Dr Asad Rehmani, a senior member of National Board for Willdlife and Director of Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) said that the 30 young vultures will be released from the breeding facilities to the demarcated safe zones at three places.
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Chakrasilla Wildlife Sanctuary needs to be protected: Kampa
KOKRAJHAR: Along with the rest of the nation, the 63rd Vanamahatsav was observed in Kokrajhar at the behest of the Department of Forest on Sunday. The Deputy Chief of BTC, Kampa Borgoyary inaugurated the
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Conservation implications of the channel changes in Sharda River on endangered swamp deer population and floodplain ecosystem
One surviving stronghold of endangered Northern swamp deer is Jhadi taal (lake) in Kishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary on the floodplains of Sharda River. Changes in channel characteristics and land use/cover in a
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Shifts in species interactions due to the evolution of functional differences between endemics and non-endemics: An endemic syndrome hypothesis
Species ranges have been shifting since the Pleistocene, whereby fragmentation, isolation, and the subsequent reduction in gene flow have resulted in local adaptation of novel genotypes and the repeated
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CII-World Bank tiger conservation platform announced
Tiger conservation efforts in India received an important shot in the arm this week after the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the World Bank to improve the dialogue on sustainable development and conservation between business, conservation stakeholders and decision-makers in policy. The new initiative to promote tiger and biodiversity conservation is called the India Wildlife Business Council (IWBC). As an institutionalised platform for collaboration, its objective will be to reverse the massive dwindling of the tiger population owing to rapid industrialisation, habitat fragmentation, poaching and illegal trade.
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Indian gaur population goes up at Kalakkad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve
Thanks to forest personnel who have successfully checked poaching Here is really a heartening news for nature lovers as the Indian gaur population at Kalakkad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve (KMTR) has increased significantly during the past few years as the forest personnel have successfully checked poaching by hunters from Kerala through continuous vigil from their permanent camps in the highly inaccessible evergreen forests.
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Himachal govt allows killing of blue bulls
Continuous damage to standing crops due to intrusions by blue bulls (nilgai) in several villages in the Shivalik foothills has forced the state government to relax the norms and allow killing of the animal. The permission will apply only to the areas falling under the forest divisions of Una, Bilaspur, Nurpur (Kangra), Paonta and Nalagarh.
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Rediscovered tree still ‘extinct’ on IUCN Red List
A rare tree rediscovered from Kerala 14 years ago is still categorised as Extinct on the Red List of International Union for Conservation of Nature. The latest version of the list released early this week has described Cynometra beddomeii , “a large tree, which has only ever been recorded from Tambacherry Ghat” as regionally extinct in Kerala. It had also stated that the plant has “not been found since 1870, despite intensive explorations.”
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Medicinal plants under stress
To find out which medicinal plants are becoming extinct and if climate change is really the only reason Civil Society spoke to DK Ved, director of the Foundation for the Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT), in Bangalore. FRLHT has done pioneering work on medicinal plants and Indian systems of medicine.
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State of biodiversity markets: offset and compensation programs worldwide
This report is a global survey of schemes designed to preserve biodiversity by making it possible for real estate developers to offset their damage to nature by paying for the creation or preservation of habitat. It documents 39 government-mandated
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The conservation status of the world’s reptiles
Effective and targeted conservation action requires detailed information about species, their distribution, systematics and ecology as well as the distribution of threat processes which affect them. Knowledge
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Can we trust the IPCC on the big stuff?
Ever since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 report on the impacts of climate change was discovered to contain a major error - that the Himalayan glaciers will be largely gone by 2035 - there has been a media feeding frenzy to find other mistakes. But it misses the point to focus on individual errors sprinkled through the report's 1000 or so pages.
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Call goes out to save the Ganges Dolphin
The Ganges River Dolphin was declared the national aquatic animal last month, but is still in urgent need of being saved from extinction, experts on the subject said. There are only about 2,000 left, down from tens of thousands just a few decades ago.