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 …
After a task force to monitor the critically endangered Great Indian Bustards (GIBs), the state government has now set up an six-member expert committee for conservation of sarus cranes in Gondia district. The tall sarus birds are facing extinction but efforts by a couple of local NGOs and volunteers have …
NASHIK: The Great Indian Bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps) and the Lesser Florican (Sypheotides indicus), birds once found in abundance in the region, are feared to be extinct, while seven other avian species have been marked as "highly endangered". These two species are grassland birds and declining grassland habitat could be the …
White-rumped vultures (Gyps bengalensis) are disappearing fast from Bangladesh due to the unchecked use of toxic drugs in cattle apart from food crisis and the loss of their habitats. “Toxic veterinary drugs like diclofenac and ketoprofen used in saving cattle from diseases accelerate the decline of vultures in the country. …
Republicans in Congress on Tuesday called for an overhaul to the Endangered Species Act to curtail environmentalists' lawsuits and give more power to states, but experts say broad changes to one of the nation's cornerstone environmental laws are unlikely given the pervasive partisan divide in Washington DC. A group of …
Sri Lanka Ministry of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources has launched a programme to protect the sharks that are under threat of extinction. Accordingly, the Ministry has prepared a Sri Lanka National Plan of Action for protection and management of sharks. The action plan is jointly implemented by the Ministry of …
The world's largest tropical desert, the Sahara, has suffered a catastrophic collapse of its wildlife populations, a new study has warned. The study assessed 14 desert species and found that a shocking half of those are regionally extinct or confined to one percent or less of their historical range. Led …
Ahmedabad: The state is starting to prepare its own list of threatened and near extinction plant species. The state forest department and the Gujarat Ecological Education and Research (Geer) Foundation have be gun putting together a list of the 40 most threatened species. Gujarat has around 2,400 plant species. The …
A survey conducted in the upper region of Humla district has found goa (Procapra picticaudata), also known as the Tibetan gazelle and Argali or the mountain sheep, which was deemed extinct. The survey team, that used methods like camera trapping, recorded and unrecorded observation and discussion with the locals, has …
Encouraged by the success of the vulture propagation and conservation project, the wildlife wing of the Forest Department has decided to broaden the ambit of the project by bringing other species like eagles, buzzards and falcons under it. The dwindling population of vultures in the state has registered an appreciable …
A recent survey by the Houbara Foundation International Pakistan and the Punjab Wildlife and Parks Department has found that only 200 Great Indian Bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps) are left in the world. The week-long survey in Cholistan, which documented this critically endangered species, has claimed that exceptional decline in population of …
Climate change, rather than humans, may have been responsible for driving the woolly mammoth to extinction, according to a new study. The study by British and Swedish researchers analysed DNA samples from 300 specimens of woolly mammoths collected by themselves and other groups in earlier studies. Scientists, led by Dr …
The widely known Bangla proverb “the cow doesn’t die at the wish of the vulture” may go extinct with the scavenging bird itself within a matter of years if the government does not stop the use of the banned cattle medicine Diclofenac, bird experts said yesterday. The vulture wants the …
New Guidelines May Hinder MP’s Lion Shifting Plan The latest guidelines of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on translocation of wildlife could prove to be a major roadblock for Madhya Pradesh’s lion dreams. The world’s oldest and most trusted global environmental organization says shifting animals outside their …
The latest update of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species is alarming with nearly 20,934 species facing extinction, however, no species from Sri Lanka had been added to the category in the latest report which was launched yesterday in Gland, Switzerland. The latest …
AHMEDABAD: Experts and conservationists believe that a project on the lines of Project Tiger has to be launched in order to save the Great Indian Bustard (GIB) that is threatened with extinction. Prerna Singh Bindra, member of the National Board for Wildlife, said that Conservation India (CI), a wildlife conservation …
London: A diminishing gene pool is posing a grave threat to Indian tigers. Scientists say the famed big cats of India are facing a serious threat of extinction owing to a ‘collapse’ in the variety of their mating partners. Welsh researchers say tigers were nearly wiped out in India during …
Ficuscutulata, locally known as chhotabargad located at RariGhat road of Pachmarhi in Madhya Pradesh is the last surviving endemic tree of ficus species in the state. Chhotabargad is only endemic tree species to the state having been found from Pachmarhi and Orchha (from where it has become extinct). Neglect and …
The giant Pacific leatherback turtle, known for its arduous 6,000-mile ocean trek from the U.S. West Coast to breeding grounds in Indonesia, could go extinct within 20 years as its population continues to plummet, scientists say. "Sea turtles have been around about 100 million years and survived the extinction of …
Almost 1 in 5 of the world’s reptile species are in danger of extinction as their habitats are cleared away for farming and logging, a new report says. An assessment by more than 200 experts of 1,500 randomly selected species of snakes, lizards, crocodiles, tortoises and other reptiles found that …
Climate change vulnerability assessments are becoming mainstream decision support tools for conservation in the US, but they may be doing migratory species a disservice.
