The global Living Planet Index continues to decline. It shows an average 68% decrease in population sizes of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish between 1970 and 2016. A 94% decline in the LPI for the tropical sub regions of the Americas is the largest fall observed in any part …
JAIPUR: Fateh Singh Rathore, one of the last of the mighty men who fought all odds to protect the tiger, was conferred a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) here on Wednesday. Two Ministers of the Rajasthan Government, Bharat Singh and Bina Kak, State Chief Secretary …
Monarch butterfly colonies in Mexico more than doubled in size this winter after bad storms devastated their numbers a year ago, conservationists said on Monday although the migrating insect remains under threat. Millions of butterflies make a 2,000-mile journey each year from Canada to winter in central Mexico's warmer weather …
Former field director of Ranthambore National Park and Sariska Tiger Reserve Fateh Singh Rathore will be conferred a lifetime achievement award on Wednesday by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) India for his contributions to save and conserve the big cat.
Raipur: The classification of forests as ‘no go’ zones for coal mining may have divided the government but it has united activist groups, often opposed to each other. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, 27 environmental groups, wildlife researchers and social activists urged him to back the environment …
Kathmandu - A wild tiger fitted with a global positioning system (GPS) collar was translocated for the first time in Nepal, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) confirmed. In September 2010, the male wild tiger (male) was injured and had strayed into the nearby tourist resort from Nepal's Chitwan National Park some …
The world's primary conservation body, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), on January 7 called on British listed companies, SOCO and Dominion, to abandon their oil exploration plans in the Virunga National Park located in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The WWF warned that these actions will undermine decades of work …
Anindo Dey | TNN Jaipur: This may be good news for the environment of Rajasthan. A recent survey by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature and also a bird expert has reported an increase in the number of raptors in the state though there is a decline in these birds …
Mamallapuram: The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) is planning to get down to cleaning the Gange river in order to revive the freshwater dolphin population, Union minister for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh said on Monday during a visit to the crocodile bank on the East Coast Road near …
The cats in your para may be multiplying but at least one of the four cat species found in and around Calcutta is vanishing along with the wetlands the animals thrive on. Wildlife specialists have no clue about the population of the fast-disappearing fishing cats, which have been spotted in …
Poaching of fish in the Harike Wetlands, where the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) intends to conduct a bio-monitoring project, threatens to endanger the wildlife habitat in the sanctuary. Information with The Indian Express reveals that in the last two months alone, authorities have booked five people under the Wildlife Protection …
To study bio-diversity and the ecosystem, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has decided to carry out a bio-monitoring project on the Harike wetlands, the wildlife sanctuary that stunned conservationists after one of the world
Jorhat, Nov. 28: Orang National Park will sign an MoU with the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) shortly to work jointly to minimise the increasing incidents of conflict between the Royal Bengal tigers and humans in recent times. The park has witnessed a rise in tiger population, which has resulted in …
The world's first tiger summit wrapped up on November 24 with lingering concerns about the fate of the endangered predator despite donor pledges of almost $330m aimed at making the great cat worth more alive than dead. The high-profile conservation conference called by Russian President Vladimir Putin and World Bank …
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Tuesday agreed with other Asian nations to try to double the world's wild tiger population by 2022 and save it from extinction. Just 3,200 tigers now live in the wild, down from 100,000 a century ago, and those that …
Wild tigers could become extinct in 12 years if countries fail to take quick action to protect their habitats and step up the fight against poaching, global wildlife experts told a
St Petersburg (Russia): Wild tigers could become extinct in 12 years if countries where they still roam fail to take quick action to protect their habitats and step up the fight against poaching, global wildlife experts told a
Russia on Sunday called for global efforts to avert extinction of tigers as wildlife activists and officials from 13 countries, including India, opened a summit today in St. Petersburg to discuss ways to double the population of the endangered animal from the existing 3,200. Addressing the
