Sturgeon poaching for meat, caviar rampant in lower Danube: WWF report

The report is the first market survey that quantifies the scale of the illegal trade

Trunk call

Magazine>> Ivory Trade • South Africa

Wild cats rescued from poachers in Uttar Pradesh could be rare caracals

Out of the six animals rescued, five of them resembled caracals

Bare bone structure

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

End of innocence

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

Global Eco Watch: Polar bears could become extinct by 2100, says study

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

Concealed trade

E-Commerce>>Wildlife • Japan

Four leopards killed every week in India: WWF

Report warns that the endangered cat may reach near extinction as happened with tiger

World Cheetah Day 2022: Social media fuels illegal trade in the species

World lacks environmental awareness, resources to stop the menace

World Pangolin Day: Madhya Pradesh radio-tags first-ever Indian Pangolin

Step in order to know species’ ecology and develop an effective conservation plan

Venezuela food crisis, fallout of a mismanaged economy

A whopping 87 per cent of Venezuelans say they don't have money to buy enough food

International Red Panda Day: How safe are India's Red Pandas?

The cute and cuddly carnivore is threatened by a host of factors 

Noamundi is easy to mine

Three in every five wildlife crimes in Europe go unpunished: Report

Birds were the species most targeted in wildlife crimes

Environment ministry to burn illegally poached items on World Wildlife Day

This is a step in the direction to prevent the sale of animal parts in black market

10 highlights from the State of India's Environment report

How India performed on key environment and development issues in 2016

South Asia

Tourism-dependent nations value elephants

Goodbye Indian mermaid

Back on menu: bird nest soup

More than 1,300 rhinos fell to poaching in Africa in 2015: IUCN

Poaching of rhinos is fuelled by the demand for their horns in Southeast Asia

Last pangolins

The world is running out of time to save its only scaly mammal

Single window dumpyard

India wants global waste. So it gets what it wants  

No cap on iron mining in Odisha

Centre rejects Shah Commission recommendation, says it would upset industry