Legal wildlife trade
Globally, legal wildlife trade has increased more than five-fold in value in the last 14 years and was estimated to be worth US $107 billion in …
German agency to conserve mangroves in Odisha’s Bhitarkanika
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, will conserve biodiversity and provide livelihoods to villagers hit by COVID-19 …
Global Eco Watch: Lions cat nap on Kruger road, with South Africa in lockdown
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Trophy hunting – can it really be justified by ‘conservation benefits’?
Banning trophy hunting would provide a much needed incentive to develop creative conservation approaches to wildlife protection and human-animal …
The catch in conservation
Ullas Karanth has many lessons to offer to make wildlife management in India more scientific
Enemies of the state?
As the Centre for the first time allows widespread culling of nilgais, it triggers a debate over whether culling is the only way to save crops …
Environmental assessments hugely underestimate wildlife impacts: Study
Methods used in assessing environmental impact seldom consider how species move around between different sites
Africa Protected Areas Congress: Continent gets $200 billion conservation fund
Rwanda first country to commit to trust; Global donations needed, says conservationist
Kenya’s first wildlife census report: 5 species critically endangered
The report recommends a population survey every three years and annual budgets for monitoring and management of wildlide
Forest officials attacked in the Sundarbans
A party of officials led by the Divisional Forest Officer in the South 24 Paraganas were attacked with sticks when they tried to arrest an …
Sliding towards extinction: scientists find 60 per cent of mammals are imperiled
Treating large mammals as ‘umbrella species’ for conservation facilitates protection of the larger ecosystems and overall biodiversity
Global Eco Watch: Botswana farmers can now keep small game on their farms
Global Eco Watch: Carcass of radio transmitter-fitted gharial found in Odisha
Kerala’s gaur-human conflict debates fail to address some core issues; here is why
Gaurs had turned violent & aggressive after being shot by poachers; contentious issues, including the role of poachers, remain unaddressed
Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: OIE initiatives for responsible, prudent use of antimicrobials in animals in Asia-Pacific
The organisation conducted workshops to spread awareness & understand how antimicrobial use data can be shared among stakeholders
Sherni: A Bollywood film that knows its environmentalism well
Every scene is finely etched in this very accurate portrayal of how India’s forest service actually works
What to do about Liberia's island colony of abandoned lab chimps?
These chimpanzees were intentionally infected with hepatitis and other pathogens to help develop a range of vaccines
Bihar to get its second tiger reserve in Kaimur soon
Officials have been working towards obtaining the National Tiger Reserve Conservation Authority’s approval for declaring Kaimur Wildlife …
Why environmental crimes are rising in India
There has been a 78 per cent increase in the number of environmental crimes in the country between 2019 and 2020. At the same time, courts are …
Earth Day 2020: Wildlife runs wild amid COVID-19
With humans across the world cooped up in their homes due to COVID-19, wild animals have made appearances in human-dominated areas
66th Standing Committee meeting of CITES underway in Geneva
National Ivory Action Plans, domestic legislation and additional measures to protect endangered species being discussed
Making a killing
Only poachers profit from rules and regulations that alienate local people from natural resources
Kenyan wildlife policies must extend beyond protected areas
Without policy reforms that integrate conservation with all other sectors of land use, landscapes in Africa may need expensive, large-scale …
Kashmir human-wildlife conflict: Children being increasingly preyed upon by black bears, leopards
Experts have blamed rapid urbanisation and deforestation for the human-wildlife conflict in the Kashmir Valley
Community-based wildlife conservation is bringing success to Tanzania
A few villages set aside land for wildlife conservation in return for the majority of tourism revenues, allowing rural communities & private …