Earth has lost 60% of its animals since 1970
Is the world losing its biodiversity faster than it can replace? A new report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has some ominous news
These self-taught doctors treat over 2000 wild birds a month in Delhi
Brothers Mohammad Nadeem and Mohammad Saud, have been rescuing birds for over 14 years. Every month, they treat 2000 birds out of their own …
‘We inform locals about the wildlife in their backyard’
Sanjay Gubbi, who recently set up a nature information centre in Karnataka, says this it’s the first such centre to disseminate information …
Horses caused the ethnic makeup of Eurasia to change: Studies
The Hunnic and Mongol invasions caused people in the region to transform from Indo-European to Turkic speakers
161 wild animals died in road, rail accidents in 2018
According to Wildlife Protection Society of India data's, both rail and road accidents killed leopards the most
Coral disease threatens reefs of US Virgin Islands
The disease — believed to be Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) — has left corals in the region with large, stark-white …
Twelve cheetahs from South Africa arrive in Madhya Pradesh
This is a continuation of ‘Project Cheetah’ under which eight cheetahs from Namibia were reintroduced to the Indian landscape …
Canada goose, a prominent symbol of North American wildlife
The species that feeds predominantly on aquatic and terrestrial vegetation has a pan-continental distribution
Wildlife crimes
The Union government has cut the funds released under three flagship wildlife schemes even though poaching remains rampant
Trillions of cicadas about to emerge from underground in 15 US states
Scientists say this is a sign that despite pollution, the climate crisis and dramatic biodiversity loss, something is still right with nature
Anglican clergy joins efforts to stop oil drilling in the Kavango
A Canadian company has the rights to drill for oil in more than 35,000 square kilometres of the Kavango Basin in Namibia
Global Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (January 13 – 19, 2020)
Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology
Himalayan ‘gold rush’: Growing livelihood reliance on lucrative and vulnerable trade
Trading in caterpillar fungus has bolstered livelihood in western Himalayas but also raised worries of exploitation
Congolese giant toad can transform itself to look like a deadly viper and make right noises
The Brazilian galliwasp lizard that poses like a toxic millipede and the zebra shark, which can mimic a highly poisonous banded sea snake are …
Exploiting the Wilderness: An Analysis of Wildlife Crime
Illegally harvested ivory and endangered plants, mammals, reptiles, birds, and even insects are easily found for sale throughout East and …
What makes an animal clever? Research shows intelligence is not just about using tools
Species that use tools aren’t necessarily better at solving problems than species that don’t
Forests fire poets' imagination
Forests are vital not only for food and biodiversity, but our energy and creativity also find expression in them
Canada’s commercial seal hunt begins
India and China urged to help stop the killing with a trade ban
Uncultivated wisdom
India witnesses a revival of its uncultivated food culture through a boom in local food festivals
Words are biotic
Is it a coincidence that areas of linguistic and ethnic plurality are also areas of biodiversity? nitin sethi tries to answer a biocultural question
Everything you want to know about biodiversity, except
A comprehensive tome on the biodiversity convention is being readied. But will it include all the viewpoints?
The hunt for green gold
BIODIVERSITY PROSPECTING Walter V Reid, Rodrigo Gamez et al Publisher: World Resource Institute, INBio, the Rainforest Alliance and the African …
Unconventional interference
The United States has decreed that GATT will have the last word on intellectual property rights, thus throwing the Biodiversity Convention to the …
Mangled mangroves
All that may remain of the pristine mangrove forests of coastal Tamil Nadu is degraded forest tracts and plundered biodiversity
A beaten path
Suresh Prabhu is by no means breaking new ground. He is merely mouthing the same promise made time and again, but never fulfilled, by his predecessors