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RIVER HABITAT FRAGMENTATION
In 2016, when river dams trapped Japan's giant salamanders, scientists came up with an unusual solution: building custom ladders instead of removing the damsResearchers in Japan developed special ladderways for giant salamanders to cross river dams. These step-type structures with side walls pro...- Fish are adapting to rivers shaped by dams and barriers, and that may be changing how man-made rivers function over timeFor decades, river restoration has focused on returning waterways to conditions that existed before dams, weirs and large-scale human inter...
- How Bumblebee Catfish Defy Gravity: The Secret of Brazil’s Waterfall ClimbersTiny bumblebee catfish in Brazil's Aquidauana River exhibit remarkable climbing behavior, ascending four-meter waterfalls to reach safe spa...
- The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Isn’t Empty, It’s Becoming a Floating HabitatOnce seen as a barren plastic wasteland, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now a thriving habitat for coastal species. These organisms, pr...
- Elevated four-lane NH via Kaziranga set to get okayNational Highway 715, which passes through the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger reserve area in Assam, is likely to be decommissioned soon.
- Human activities cutting off tiger gene flow in NE: Tiger census report
- Lease of life: The 185-km long Beas Conservation Reserve is helping protect many endangered aquatic speciesToday, the Beas in Punjab is the only Indian habitat of the functionally blind mammal, which uses echolocation to navigate underwater and h...
- Climate alert for swamp tigerMore alert has been sounded for the Sunderbans tiger on the climate front.
- India's first dolphin community reserve to come up in BengalTo protect the endangered Gangetic river dolphins, West Bengal will soon have the country's first community reserve for the mammal.
- India's first dolphin community reserve to come up in BengalTo protect the endangered Gangetic river dolphins, West Bengal will soon have the country's first community reserve for the mammal.
- Bats in India like to live among coffee plantsIt turns out that when coffee plantations encroach on natural forest habitat, bats are happy to live in the coffee.
- Deforestation serious threat to bats in IndiaWith increasing human population and rise in agricultural land use in India's Western Ghats, a number of bat species are findings it diffic...
- 'Bats face difficulty in the transformed landscape'The study says several species of bats face difficulty in the transformed landscape.
- Why there is a compelling need to implement a sound legislation to protect Western GhatsWestern Ghats, a Unesco Heritage site, is one of the world's 8 most important biodiversity hotspots. It is hailed as a "cradle of biologica...
- Amphibians in troubled waters on home turfIndia has the sixth largest number of endemic species of amphibians that are under threat.
- Indian dolphin, elephant among top 100 mammals facing extinction: Zoological society of LondonThe Zoological Society of London have for the first time scored the world's mammals according to how Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally E...
- Dredging, illegal fishing hurting dolphin numbersA major stretch of Yamuna river between Panchnada and Sangam (Allahabad), considered a suitable habitat for highly endangered Gangetic Dolp...
- Gangetic dolphin facing threat of extinction due to pollutionIn a census conducted in 2012, the number of Gangetic dolphins in Uttar Pradesh was found increasing from 600 in 2005 to 671.
- Dolphin count goes up in Terai regionThe number of Gangetic dolphins in the Terai region of Katarniaghat of Dudhwa tiger reserve has gone up as per the ongoing survey of the fo...
- Myanmar's wild elephants help cut down their forest habitatElephants in Myanmar have long been invaluable labourers in the country's timber industry, nimbly finding their way through forests and dra...
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