California’s 1st fatal cougar attack in 20 years: These tips can help in encounters with the Americas’ apex felid

Don’t run, bend or crouch; if a cougar attacks, fight back with whatever is at hand, even your bare hands

Is the tiger still ‘rajah’ of Java’s jungles? New study raises hopes

A single hair strand found in a village on the island in 2019 found to be genetically belonging to subspecies

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 27, 2024)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal  

Frans de Waal showed non-human species are more complex than they are given credit for: Anindya Sinha

Down To Earth spoke to Sinha, one of India’s leading primate experts, about the legacy of the Dutch-American primatologist, who passed …

Pangolins in Africa: Expert unpacks why millions have been traded illegally and what can be done about it

China and Vietnam are the main destinations for these illegal shipments

How Tsarist Russia’s expansion into the Caucasus and Central Asia decimated their wildlife

The Russian imperial administration encouraged the extermination of large predators because it considered their existence incompatible with the …

A giant dolphin once resided in the Peruvian Amazon. Its closest living relatives today inhabit the Indus and Ganga

At 3.5 metres long, the Pebanista yacuruna was the largest river dolphin that ever existed  

World Sparrow Day 2024: How a Mysuru woman is trying to bring sparrows back to the city

Kokila Ramesh Jain makes customised terracotta nests to help attract the birds; she also organises citizen awareness events to highlight their …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 19, 2024)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Bihar’s only tiger reserve using green energy to provide water to wildlife during summer

Solar-powered pumps are being used to fill waterholes in the grasslands of VTR to provide water to tigers and other wildlife

DTE Exclusive: Rampant shark hunting in Digha along Bengal’s coast

Often sharks from both Digha and Kakdwip are sent to various top hotels in the state for the preparation of shark fin soup

Conservation not enough for the highly inbred Ranthambore tigers — they require genetic rescue

There is a need to facilitate active ‘gene flow’ into the Rajasthan tiger population from Central Indian tiger landscapes

Centre contemplating ban on wolf dogs. But what about the hybrids roaming India’s wilds?

We hardly know about people breeding wolf dogs in India; but we do know they are prevalent in the wild, say experts

It’s a myth that male animals are usually larger than females — new study

Male-biased size dimorphism was found in only 28% of 429 mammal species examined

The next pandemic? It’s already here for Earth’s wildlife

Species already threatened with extinction are among those which have died due to bird flu in the past three years

The lost glory of Rajasthan’s tigers can be restored

The government has resolved to make landscape-scale tiger conservation a success; moving forward in this direction, Rajasthan already has five …

Human-wildlife conflict among greatest threats to animal species: WWF and UNEP report

Problem as much a development and humanitarian issue as a conservation concern, it says

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