Forests are breaking up in tropics but coming together elsewhere — here’s what it means for wildlife & climate

Forest fragmentation is bad news for many unique animal and plant species 

Arctic birds face disappearing breeding grounds as climate warms

For birds migrating to the top of the world, the warming climate could severely contract the available space they have to breed

The Trump administration's new migratory bird policy undermines a century of conservation

The Trump administration announced a position on protecting migratory birds that is a drastic pullback from policies in …

Traffic noise is affecting communication in birds

When noise due to traffic increases, the birds alter the length and frequency of their song to improve communication

Bird flu scare returns, this time in Odisha

Keranga village has been declared the epicentre of H5N1 A1 virus in the state and culling operation has begun

'River regulation responsible for decline in water bird population in Australia'

Kate Brandis, joint research fellow at the Centre for Ecosystem Science, UNSW and Australian Nuclear Science Technology Organisation

Dams and sea deliver death blow to Nile delta

Sandwiched between an encroaching sea and dams that prevent silt from reaching it, the Nile delta seems doomed.

Saving species

At a recently-held wildlife meet in Cape Town, delegates draft an action plan to conserve migratory species of wild animals

Fowl Play

Is an avian flu pandemic imminent? As panic sends the world into a flutter, the Indian response still struggles to take wing, discover padmaparna …

Lost birds

The birds are back

Protecting turtles

MoU to safeguard the dwindling number of turtles on the anvil in India

Cold comfort

Minor arrested

The world’s spectacular animal migrations are dwindling. Fishing, fences and development are fast-tracking extinctions

Human exploitation of migratory species is the main reason why these species are in decline

Almost 50,000 birds counted at Chilika lake on May 25

Habitat improvement, availability of food and eviction of prawn gherries in the lake had caused more birds to flock to Chilika this year

Fish wars of an economic kind

In 1993, Newfoundland will see an international conference on fish stocks as a result of a dispute between Canada and Japan and the EC

Bihar forest department recovers 155 skinned migratory birds from poacher

The man used to supply meat of migratory birds to various parts of north Bihar

Déjà vu in Sambhar: Over 49 crows die in 3 days, samples sent to Bhopal

Over 18,000 birds had died of avian botulism in 2019 in and around Sambhar lake

How Assam’s Deepor Beel is perishing from concretisation, waste dumping

The lake is home to exotic birds, wildlife and supports livelihoods of hundreds 

Ban whaling

CHINA

According to report

Chilika sees record number of migratory birds amid bird flu scare

Rare falcated teal, mallard spotted during bird census

Rare Long-Billed Plover bird sighted in Odisha’s Bhitarkanika national park

Sighting of this rare migratory bird during the annual bird census is baffling wildlife officials and ornithologists