India Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (Apr 15-21)

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of Indian ecology, botany and zoology

Baptised by fire

Wildlife saviour Richard Leakey, hailed as messiah by some, and hated as hell's messenger by others, is now in the thick of Kenyan politics

Insect supreme

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Briefs

Kaziranga braces to curb human-wildlife conflict ahead of monsoon

Water levels rise inside the park every year, prompting animals to move highlands in areas of heavy settlements

Europe has a wolf problem, and a late Norwegian philosopher had the solution

Norwegian environmental philosopher Arne Næss was clear: wolves have just as much a right to be here as we do  

Global Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (February 3 – 9, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology

Thriving trade

How cheap?

You can count the tiger

End of innocence

Sumana Narayanan inadvertently walks the thin line between a curio and wildlife contraband

China syndrome in tiger trade

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A Last Wild Place

In this book, Mike Tomkies gives a remarkable picture of the whole cycle of nature around him, in a harsh and testing environment of unrivalled …

Climbing the machan: Poverty and animal conflict in Karnataka

Human-wildlife conflict is a monumental issue for farmers living in subsistence, conflict with wild animals disproportionately impacts the poor

Licence to kill

MP government mulls proposal to facilitate hunting of crop-eating wild animals

Elephant tusks seized, four arrested in Bihar

The prime accused repeatedly claimed that he was the proud owner of two captive elephants that died four years ago and that their tusks were kept …

Elephant crushed by train in Odisha’s Sambalpur

This is the 29th such death in Odisha in a decade  and the second death in Sambalpur district within a month

State of the tiger

AUSTRALIA

RETURN OF THE RHINO

INDIA

Shoot to count

The other side of conservation

Killing elephants

Urban Wilderness

A study on urban biodiversity is relevant to understand the human impact on environment