The Assam State Zoo can teach the rest of India (and the world) a lot about rhino conservation

Decades of experience has led to great success in increasing populations.

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya

· Nov 17, 2019 · 09:30 pm

A Briton chasing moths comes to India: It’s as ‘exciting as watching Tendulkar score a century’

Hailing from a family of entomologists, retired lawyer Mark Sterling is back to his childhood hobby.

Sahana Ghosh

· Oct 13, 2019 · 01:30 pm

Could the upper Himalayas be a new, stable home for tigers in South Asia?

A Global Tiger Forum study has identified two zones of the cool, gentle, sparsely populated Himalayan slopes across Bhutan, India and Nepal for conservation.

Mayank Aggarwal

· Sep 10, 2019 · 09:30 pm

Studying the wild yak droppings may help understand why woolly mammoths and woolly rhinos died out

The modern yak’s dietary diversity in a changing climate, as well as low densities of humans in its Himalayan home, may have helped it survive.

Sahana Ghosh

· Aug 25, 2019 · 09:30 pm

How ‘Guptaji’ aka Ashok Kumar helped pull off India’s largest seizure of tiger and leopard skins

Remembering the tireless conservationist on his 84th birth anniversary.

Vivek Menon

· Aug 17, 2019 · 11:30 am

Tamilian Warrior: The butterfly that has been elevated to a state symbol

Butterflies are great bio-indicators: their presence, patterns and migration assist in mapping the climatic health of a region.

Vasudevan Sridharan

· Aug 13, 2019 · 09:30 pm

As tiger numbers rise in India, here are five critically endangered species that need protection

The country is home to 682 animal species categorised as critically endangered, endangered and vulnerable.

Vijayta Lalwani

· Jul 31, 2019 · 06:30 am

Assam: Tiger takes refuge in house near Kaziranga, stranded by floods

Wildlife experts said the tiger has to traverse a road to reach the forest again.

Scroll Staff

· Jul 18, 2019 · 11:23 pm

How should the world respond as Japan resumes commercial whaling after 30 years?

Tokyo claims it had never intended to stop but to simply wait until whale populations recuperated.

Sui Phang and Peter Bridgewater, The Conversation

· Jul 08, 2019 · 11:30 pm

Mumbai: Two men arrested for possession of ‘whale vomit’ worth Rs 1.7 crore, say police

Ambergris or ‘whale vomit’ is a wax that is produced in the digestive system of sperm whales and is used to make perfumes.

Scroll Staff

· Jun 19, 2019 · 12:42 pm

Binny, India’s only orangutan, dies at 41 in Odisha’s Nandankanan Zoological Park

The ape was brought to the Odisha zoo in November 2003, when she was 25 years old, from the Rajiv Gandhi Zoological Park in Pune.

Scroll Staff

· May 31, 2019 · 10:34 am

Malaysia’s last male Sumatran rhinoceros dies at 30

The Sumatran rhino was declared extinct in the wild in Malaysia in 2015.

Scroll Staff

· May 28, 2019 · 12:14 pm