Not entitled to break the law: Conservationists slam Jyoti Randhawa
The ace golfer was arrested on December 26 with a hunting rifle and animal parts in Uttar Pradesh
On same day, 3 elephants die in 2 Odisha districts
The development has raised concerns among forest officials and animal conservationists
Plight of the vaquita forces International Whaling Commission to issue first extinction alert
There are just 10 vaquita, a type of porpoise, left in the world; all in the northern part of the Gulf of California or Sea of Cortez
CITES CoP 2019: Eswatini’s request to trade in white rhino horn rejected
The landlocked southern African country wanted to change the rules that currently forbid the international commercial trade in rhino horns
Elusive trail
Despite heavy deployment of police, Veerappan has remained elusive. The Special Task Force used the ugliest tactics to track him down, but failed
Mistaking guns for trees
The Tamil Nadu Green Movement wants the state government to use armed guards to protect a rain forest. Will they never learn?
Militants poaching rhinos in Kaziranga
247 accused arrested with high-end arms, but no poacher convicted for killing 149 rhinos in five years
Wild cats rescued from poachers in Uttar Pradesh could be rare caracals
Out of the six animals rescued, five of them resembled caracals
Tiger conference: snow leopard, big cat conservation and tackling wildlife crime high on radar
Participants focus on 2017 Snow Leopard Summit, tiger recovery programme and poaching
Israel moots proposal to regulate trade in mammoth ivory
Tel Aviv wants to prevent elephant tusks being sold as mammoth ones globally
Odisha bird poaching: 2 arrested with carcass of migratory birds in Chilika
Around 5 poachers have been arrested in the state since October
New study reveals sturgeon caviar sourced from illegal trade, labelled to mislead
Researchers found international market flouted CITES and EU wildlife regulations, other laws
ECUADOR
Protecting by dehorning
People protect forest
Authoritative cover-up
SOUTH AFRICA
Whaling under veil
Troubled tiger
Vanishing from Panna Reserve, too
Rhino demoted
Bare bone structure
Elephants reduced to a political football as Botswana brings back hunting
Over the past five years Botswana has earned a reputation as the continent’s last elephant haven
A peek into the secret lives of Indian spiders
India is home to several unique species of spiders; some are known to science, while many others are yet to be discovered
Leopard dies after getting caught in poachers’ trap in Odisha
The iron trap laid to catch a wild boar dismembered the three-year-old big cat’s left leg and injured him severely before killing him
Should we celebrate the spread of peafowl in India
Their population dispersion in Kerala, a wet state, points to climate change and the drying up of formerly wet areas like the southern Western Ghats