Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
Geographic range size is often conceptualized as a fixed attribute of a species and treated as such for the purposes of quantification of extinction risk; species occupying smaller geographic ranges are assumed to have a higher risk of extinction, all else being equal. However many species are mobile, and their …
Ian Fleming’s famous fictional spy is renowned for being a bit of a love rat. But now a real rodent has been discovered on the island of Hispaniola and it has been named James Bond's hutia - or Plagiodontia aedium bondi. The cat-sized animal weighs more than two lbs (1kg) …
One of the world's iconic freshwater fish, the giant humpback Mahseer found in India, is on the brink of extinction, thanks to a conservation programme that has backfired, according to scientists. In fact, the humpback Mahseer which lacks a valid scientific name could potentially go extinct before being named, the …
Rena Gaborov was looking for gliders during a night-time survey in the East Gippsland forest near Bonang when she first heard the call. It stopped her in her tracks. Having devoted years to searching for a frog long-believed extinct, she convinced herself she was mistaken. "I went all shaky when …
Climate change could drive up to a sixth of animals and plants on Earth to extinction unless governments cut rising greenhouse gas emissions, according to a US study published on Thursday. Species in South America, Australia and New Zealand are most at risk, since many live in small areas or …
The swift parrot, Australia's fastest nectar-eater, is suffering such a catastrophic population decline that conservationist biologists are pushing for the brightly-coloured bird to be urgently listed as critically endangered. The parrot lives much of the year in Victoria and New South Wales where it feasts on the nectar of flowering …
Cats that live in the wild may be in danger. Scientists have found that almost half of the 36 species of felids that live in the wild in the world are at risk. However, a lack of studies regarding their main hurdle, the loss and fragmentation of their habitat, limits …
It turns out that our world's seas are quickly becoming ecosystems where species are at risk for extinction. Scientists have discovered that 20 to 25 percent of species in our oceans are now threatened with extinction. In order to better understand the state of species in our world's oceans, the …
Recent studies show that current IUCN Red List assessment methods can identify species vulnerable to extinction because of climate change. But species must be assessed more completely and more regularly, and adaptation actions initiated swiftly once threatened species are identified.
246 SPECIES, INCLUDING RARE BABY FIRE RING, SPOTTED The recent butterfly survey carried out by volunteers in Periyar Tiger Reserve (PTR) in Kerala has thrown up several surprises. Of 32 species endemic only to Western Ghats, 95% were recorded, including Baby Five Ring, a rare species. Baby Five Ring has …
A new species of leaping frog has been discovered in the northern part of the Western Ghats region near Amboli. Christened the `Amboli Leaping Frog' or the Indirana Chiravasi, the new species inhabits laterite plateaus. A team of three scientists from city-based Indian Institute of Science and Research (IISER) Pune …
Species extinctions are about 1,000 times more frequent now than in the 60 million years before humans came along. From 0.1 extinctions per million species per year in the pre-human era to 100 extinctions per million per year now, the human impact is clear and deadly, going by a new …
The bald eagle may no longer be at risk of extinction, but the U.S. effort to protect the national bird became harder on Wednesday. A federal appeals court revived a religion-based challenge to a U.S. regulation that allows only members of Indian tribes recognized by the government to possess the …
Researchers from the biodiversity department of Abasaheb Garware College have recorded the presence of 70 species of dragonflies in northern part of Western Ghats during a project funded by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the University of Pune (UoP). Four out of the 70 species were found in …
Species of plants and animals are becoming extinct at least 1,000 times faster than they did before humans arrived on the scene, and the world is on the brink of a sixth great extinction, a new study says. The study looks at past and present rates of extinction and finds …
BANGALORE: Male parenting may be recent in humankind. But male members taking care of their brood is not new to the animal kingdom. The members of a newly discovered frog species plaster the eggs with swamp mud to ensure they don't dry out. This after the females lays the eggs …
A recent study has found that Australian marsupials such as tree possums, bandicoots and quolls are suffering a sudden decline, placing them at risk of extinction in Australia. Several of Australia's unusual marsupials, including bandicoots and phascogales, are currently experiencing a dramatic decline in the north of the country, according …
Researchers studying bat species in the Western Ghats of Maharashtra have found that the populations of most species have declined significantly over a decade. "There has been a massive decline in the numbers of most of the species that we studied. Some of the areas where we had recorded the …
NETRAKONA : Many native species of fish are on the verge of extinction in the natural water bodies of the district due to various reasons including adverse impact of climate change, reports BSS. Once the district was known as granary and fish resourceful are of the country, but now facing …
Small native animals are facing “an extraordinary decline” across the northern third of Australia, with the spread of feral cats largely to blame, a leading ecologist said. In Kakadu National Park alone, the numbers of such animals, including bandicoots, northern quolls and tree rats, has crashed 90 per cent in …
