Tightening the ban on a cow medicine can save India’s vultures

In just over a decade, crores of vultures have died from kidney failure after feeding on cattle carcasses laced with an anti-inflammatory drug.

Nikhil Eapen

· Feb 23, 2021 · 09:30 pm

In Tripura, the spectacled leaf monkey is facing a dire future because of rubber plantations

Scientists worry over the change in the endangered goggle-eyed primates’ food ecology.

Shatabdi Chakrabarti

· Feb 11, 2021 · 07:30 pm

While India’s wildlife is declining, its environment ministry remains in denial

India is among nations most threatened by biodiversity loss, yet the Centre obscures data and allows exploitation of environmentally sensitive areas.

Nikhil Eapen

· Nov 11, 2020 · 01:30 pm

Illegal trade is killing off medicinal plants that are found only in Jammu and Kashmir

The Himalayas are one of the world’s 36 biodiversity hotspots and are rich in plants found nowhere else on Earth.

Mudassir Kuloo

· Nov 03, 2020 · 09:30 pm

Climate change is bringing snow leopards and common leopards into conflict

The elusive snow leopard has been driven to lower altitudes, where it is meeting the common leopard.

Varsha Singh

· Oct 26, 2020 · 07:30 pm

The great Indian bustard used to breed in two places. Karnataka might have made it one

The ‘critically endangered’ bird has not been sighted in Ballari. Conservationists blame the Karnataka Wildlife Department.

Seema Sharma

· Sep 18, 2020 · 07:30 pm

Mumbai: Carcass of endangered whale shark found at Sassoon Dock, probe ordered

Whale sharks are also a protected species under the Wildlife Protection Act.

Scroll Staff

· Aug 12, 2020 · 05:00 pm

Centre undertakes project worth Rs 33 crore to save the Great Indian Bustard

However, the government does not recognise noise pollution as a cause of danger to the bird.

Scroll Staff

· Jul 12, 2019 · 07:06 pm

In Meghalaya, tribal communities join hands to ensure that the hoolock gibbon’s song stays alive

Increasing human pressure is gnawing away at the forest, endangering the hooleng, as the species is called in Khasi.

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya

· Jun 10, 2019 · 01:30 pm

As last male Sumatran rhino in Malaysia dies, scientists race to save the species

A concerted effort is being made to capture as many of the remaining wild rhino as possible, and breed them in captivity.

Jason Gilchrist, the Conversation

· Jun 05, 2019 · 11:30 pm

As global smuggling networks flourish, Indian turtles disappear from traditional habitats

Rare species are being poached for meat and being smuggled across Asia for use in traditional medicine.

Juhi Chaudhary

· Apr 15, 2019 · 01:30 pm

Taking wing: A small bird sanctuary hopes to revive the avian population of Manipur’s Loktak Lake

The upcoming bird sanctuary at Thinungei village is reportedly Manipur’s first.

Sahana Ghosh

· Dec 17, 2018 · 08:30 pm