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For sale on Facebook: monkeys, rhino horn and dead pangolinsThe ghostly white creature curled up on a weighing scale is almost unrecognisable in the Facebook post offering it for sale. Some of the co...
8 endangered animals in India which need everyone's attentionApart from the tiger and the elephant, India also has a wild landscape that shelters rare animals fighting for survival. These 8 lesser-kno...
Nearly incognito for 80 years, rare Golden rat species resurfaces in South AfricaThe De Winton's golden mole -- a small, blind burrower with "super-hearing powers" that eats insects -- was found to be still alive on a be...
America's largest reptile sanctuary wants to import gharials from IndiaThe Phoenix Herpetological Society has applied for permission from the US Fish and Wildlife Service, according to a federal notification is...
Over 150 endangered vultures poisoned to death in southern AfricaAt least 150 critically-endangered vultures were poisoned to death in separate incidents in Botswana and South Africa, conservationists sai...
Democratic conservation of biodiversity is mustIndia ranks among the top ten species rich nations in the world and is known for its rich biological diversity and high endemism.
- Prince Charles to raise funds for elephant corridors
Charles, Prince of Wales, is trying to raise funds for an elephant corridor in Assam.
World Land Trust raising funds for the ‘ambitious’ Chilkiya-Kota elephant corridorWorld Land Trust is an international conservation charity, which protects the world’s most biologically important and threatened habitats a...
New Great Indian Bustard habitat found in Jaisalmer, conservation hopes soarA flock of 24 GIBs was recently spotted in the grasslands of Salkha area, 45 km from Jaisalmer district. Of them, 21 were males and three f...
- Endangered Sarus cranes found poisoned in Dadri
At a time when the Sarus crane population in the world is rapidly declining, 14 of these endangered birds were allegedly found poisoned in ...
- Three hoolock gibbons released in Mehao sanctuary
Forest officials in Arunachal Pradesh released a family of three hoolock gibbons in Mehao Wildlife Sanctuary in lower Dibang Valley distric...
Stranded gibbon family in Arunachal translocatedA family of three hoolock gibbons, an endangered species, stranded in a tree cluster at Dello village have been translocated by forest offi...
India to host first-ever international conference on bearsIndia will host its first international Conference on Bear Research and Management in Delhi next week. The conference, held every 18 months...
- North’s Veerappan gets 6-yr term for poaching
Notorious poacher Sansar Chand, better known as ‘Veerappan of north India’, was on Wednesday sentenced to six years in jail - maximum punis...
- Court likely to pronounce quantum of sentence in Sansar Chand case today
Fifteen years after he was caught red-handed for illegal possession of leopard skin, a trial court is likely to pronounce the quantum of se...
- CEC opposes NHAI road project in Pench Tiger Reserve
The Supreme Court-appointed CEC has shot down a controversial proposal of the NHAI to widen a road passing through Pench Tiger Reserve in M...
Poachers go high techWith high-tech peddlers increasingly turning to cyberspace an easy route to carry wildlife trade, it's time the enforcement agencies in Ind...
- Wildlife census shows increase in Hangul population
The population of endangered Hangul deer has registered an increase in the Kashmir Valley, according to the latest wildlife census.
- Nepals first vulture breeding centre established
Nepal has established the country's first vulture breeding centre inside the popular Chitawan National Park with a view to maintain a viabl...
- Saving Gir lions is this US citizen's mission
Steve Mandel has become the first foreigner to set up a non-profit organisation, exclusively for the conservation for the Gir lion.