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 …
Human-Wildlife Conflict (HWC) has become frequent over recent weeks in Namibia and lions are at the short end of the stick, as up to 25 lions have died so far this year, an official said Monday. Namibia’s Minister of Environment and Tourism, Pohamba Shifeta on Monday at a press briefing …
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - The number of poached rhinos in South Africa decreased by 13 animals to 529 between January to June compared with the same period last year, a downward trend welcomed with "cautious optimism" by the government on Monday. Rhino poaching in South Africa surged from 83 in …
CAPE TOWN - Environmental Affairs Minister, Edna Molewa says government is escalating the fight against rhino poaching despite current measures yielding positive results. Molewa was briefing the media in Cape Town on progress made in combating rhino poaching on Monday. According to Molewa, "This decline in numbers does not mean …
Jaipur: The first windmills of Jaisalmer came up in 2001. Since then, the desert has become among the largest windfarms in the world. The spread of this "sustainable" energy source, however, has not come without a cost. Local people who have lived off tourism are finding it harder to attract …
A fresh legal challenge could be brewing for Adani’s planned Carmichael coalmine. New advice has found the federal environment minister’s approval of the mine may have been unlawful in light of new scientific evidence of its impacts on the endangered black-throated finch. As a result, the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) …
The forest department has recommended the abolition of the posts of two field directors, saying their work can be done from Bengaluru. Going against chief minister Siddaramaiah’s order that forest officials should be on the field and not in Bengaluru, the department wants the field directors of Project Tiger and …
The majority of the world's terrestrial large carnivores have undergone substantial range contractions and many of these species are currently threatened with extinction. However, there has been little effort to fully quantify the extent of large carnivore range contractions, which hinders our ability to understand the roles and relative drivers …
Overexploitation is one of the main pressures driving wildlife closer to extinction, yet broad-scale data to evaluate species’ declines are limited. Using African pangolins (Family: Pholidota) as a case study, we demonstrate that collating local-scale data can provide crucial information on regional trends in exploitation of threatened species to inform …
The strong focus on species extinctions, a critical aspect of the contemporary pulse of biological extinction, leads to a common misimpression that Earth’s biota is not immediately threatened, just slowly entering an episode of major biodiversity loss. This view overlooks the current trends of population declines and extinctions. Using a …
Every eight hours, a rhinoceros is slaughtered in South Africa. Rhino poaching in South Africa surged from 83 in 2008 to a record 1,215 in 2014 to meet demands by newly-affluent Asian countries, where the horn is a key ingredient in traditional medicines. To help stem the tide of rhino …
The 90% of the biodiversity related to the amphibian populations in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest -one of the most threatened tropical forests- is not a protected area yet, according to an article published in the journal Science Advances. The new study, which has the participation of the experts Gustavo Llorente …
The World Heritage Committee meeting in Krakow has decided to remove Simien National Park from the List of World Heritage in Danger in recognition of improvements in its management and of measures taken to reduce overgrazing and visitor impact. The World Heritage Committee welcomed Ethiopia's commitment in building an alternative …
The department of environmental affairs (DEA) has announced it has agreed to export 800 lion skeletons to Asia this year. Conservation groups, as well as the international organisations, are outraged by the decision. The DEA made the decision was made last Wednesday June 28. Government has argued that the absence …
Polokwane - A manhunt has been launched for those who poisoned three lions and decapitated the animals at Kareefontein farm outside Modimolle on Monday, Limpopo police said on Tuesday. The police's endangered species section of the stock theft unit launched the search, police spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Moatshe Ngoepe told News24. "It …
The company worked with conservationists on schemes in Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia, helping species such as orangutans, tigers and monkeys The company has worked with the World Land Trust on several bio-bridges Reuters A £2m scheme to create 10 new “bio-bridges” which link up areas of rainforest to help wildlife …
After quantifying the extent of habitat fragmentation faced by 4,000 mammal species, researchers found higher levels of fragmentation predict greater risk of extinction. As habitat fragmentation increases, so does extinction risk: study A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), set out to quantify …
RUMAH KINANGKUNG — Authorities were explaining the rules governing protected animals to residents of this North Sumatran village when a man appeared, carrying a small, scaly creature by the tail. It was a live pangolin, the world’s most trafficked mammal. The man had been catching them in the forest and …
Five wildlife enthusiasts to cover 29 States and 3 neighbouring countries Five wildlife enthusiasts, in association with Coimbatore-based NGO Environment Conservation Group, embarked on a 25,000-km road trip on Saturday to raise awareness on endangered species of Indian sub-continent under its project named ‘Save Endangered Endemic and Key species (SEEK)’. …
A draft set of regulations – opened for public comment in February – aims to facilitate the domestic trade in rhino horn. The Department of Environmental Affairs clarified its position in a statement at the weekend after conservation groups expressed concerns earlier this year about the regulations possibly enabling the …
