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URGENT ACTION FOR BIRD CONSERVATION
This rare green pigeon is vanishing from Southeast Asia. Scientists say fewer than 500 may be left- Meet Aneeshwar Kunchala, the 7-year-old environmentalist who hosted a COP27 documentary and interviewed children worldwide
- Tom Every spent decades turning salvaged machinery into Wisconsin’s 300-ton Forevertron; the 50-foot scrap-metal giant still stands at his family’s art park
- Meet Dara McAnulty, the young naturalist who became the youngest RSPB medal recipientDara McAnulty is a naturalist, writer and environmental campaigner from Northern Ireland whose conservation work earned major recognition a...07 Oct, 2026, 01.18 AM IST
- In 1932, an army of soldiers fought 20,000 emus with machine guns. The flightless birds defeated the military operation, two timesAustralia faced an unusual crisis when up to 20,000 emus moved into Western Australia’s wheat-growing region in 1932 and damaged the crops ...07 Oct, 2026, 12.42 AM IST
- 894 pieces of plastic were found inside one seabird. The bigger warning came from what happened next, the finding has researchers deeply concerned about the oceanA recent study revealed that sable shearwater chicks on Lord Howe Island are ingesting alarming amounts of plastic. Researchers recorded a ...07 Oct, 2026, 12.34 AM IST
- The 113,613-acre Montana landscape where Ted Turner’s wild conservation legacy lives onTed Turner purchased the Flying D Ranch in 1989, transforming it into a conservation-oriented property. The ranch is home to diverse wildli...06 Oct, 2026, 01.35 PM IST
- Gujarat to relocate Maldhari families from Barda SanctuaryGujarat has announced a scheme to relocate Maldhari families from the Barda Wildlife Sanctuary. The scheme provides a one-time payment of R...05 Oct, 2026, 12.14 AM IST
- Italy eradicated black rats from Zannone in 2007; nine years later, Scopoli's shearwater nesting pairs had nearly tripled from 27 to 80 on the Mediterranean islandZannone, a volcanic island near Rome, successfully removed black rats that threatened local seabird populations. Conservationists undertook...04 Oct, 2026, 02.10 PM IST
- On rat-free D’Arros Island, scientists counted 2,768 wedge-tailed shearwater pairs in 2016, nearly 10 times the 2009 estimateD'Arros Island in Seychelles has witnessed a remarkable revival of wedge-tailed shearwaters after the successful elimination of invasive ra...04 Oct, 2026, 02.00 PM IST
- After Klein Curaçao removed goats and feral cats and restored habitat, nesting birds climbed from 140 pairs of one species in 2002 to around 650 across multiple species in 2022 as eight more species began breedingKlein Curaçao experienced a significant increase in seabird populations after removing invasive goats and cats. The island went from a few ...04 Oct, 2026, 01.50 PM IST
- After invasive rodents were cleared from Surprise Island in 2005, three monitored seabird populations grew two to tenfold in the years that followedFollowing the eradication of invasive rats in 2005, Surprise Island in New Caledonia witnessed remarkable growth in its seabird populations...04 Oct, 2026, 01.40 PM IST
- In 2010, Playboy's Hugh Hefner donated $900,000 to save land behind the Hollywood Sign from luxury homes. 16 years on, 138 acres at Cahuenga Peak remain protected in Griffith ParkIn 2010, a major fundraising campaign sought to protect 138 acres at Cahuenga Peak, the land behind the iconic Hollywood Sign, from potenti...02 Oct, 2026, 09.28 PM IST
- New Zealand’s endangered bird Kākāpō population jumps to 325 after 90 chicks join count, but a new problem emergesThe population of New Zealand's endangered kākāpō has dramatically increased from 51 to 325 birds, thanks to a fruitful breeding season tha...02 Oct, 2026, 08.19 PM IST
- In 2018, South Carolina pumped 40,000 cubic yards of river sand onto an eroding bird island; enough to fill about 4,000 dump trucks and restore lost nesting groundThe restoration of Bird Key Stono, a vital nesting habitat for endangered bird species, involved utilizing dredged sand from Folly River. T...01 Oct, 2026, 07.20 PM IST
- Since 2014, 49,520 registered volunteers have classified penguins, chicks, and eggs in Antarctic photos; more than 6 million classifications helped build a colony datasetThe Penguin Watch initiative witnessed enthusiastic participation from citizen scientists who contributed to penguin counting efforts in An...30 Sep, 2026, 07.10 PM IST
- Look-alike, but not the same: Scientists name first new penguin species in over 100 yearsA new species of penguin, named Pygoscelis kerguelensis, has been identified in the southern Indian Ocean. Genetic studies revealed that ge...30 Sep, 2026, 09.43 AM IST
- Florida biologists remove 177 invasisve Burmese pythons weighing over 8,000 pounds. Stops 4,100 eggs from entering the ecosystem. Still there is a much bigger problemFlorida wildlife researchers conducted a significant removal effort by capturing 177 Burmese pythons and recovering 4,100 eggs. This remova...27 Sep, 2026, 09.56 PM IST
- In 2019, researchers used Sentinel-2 satellite images to find eight unreported emperor-penguin breeding colonies, lifting the known total to 61Eight new emperor penguin colonies have been identified in Antarctica, increasing the total to 61 active populations. The British Antarctic...24 Sep, 2026, 02.00 PM IST
- Two Virginia retirees are turning their farms into wildlife corridors. Transformed nearly 2,500 acres are now protectedIn Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, retired farmers are revolutionising private lands into essential wildlife corridors that reconnect isolate...20 Sep, 2026, 07.34 PM IST
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