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Tiger zinda hai! Striped big cat spotted in Gujarat after 27 years | Ahmedabad News - Times of IndiaTwenty-seven years after the tiger was last sighted along the Dang border in Gujarat in 1992, a teacher has reported seeing the big cat, kicking off a

Increased poaching under lockdown, not the virus, is the new threat to tigersA resurgence of poaching, once unleashed, will be hard to prosecute and control given other social pressures in play. The mass media and senior officials would do well to focus on this poaching issue as a part of Covid-19 responses rather than worry excessively about imagined tiger population declines resulting from the virus.

Animals Are Rewilding Our Cities. On YouTube, at Least. (Published 2020)The videos of deer and elephants, whether or not they’re real, speak to a budding hope: that the pandemic might change society, and us, for the better.

How COVID-19 shutdowns have affected the animal kingdom | CBC NewsIn this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at how COVID-19 shutdowns are affecting animals, the role horses can play in protecting the permafrost and how measures to heal the ozone layer have also benefited the jet stream.

Here's how rewilding could save the climate and your pensionEden bonds - a newly proposed financial instrument - would fund rewilding projects at the same time as generating safe, long-term returns for institutional investors.

Moving towards a green and sustainable economy post-COVID-19

Rewilding in a changing climateDebate rewilding, a novel ecosystem management approach to conserving biodiversity

In the absence of people, crocodiles take over Oaxaca beachesThe crocodiles of La Ventanilla have taken to the beach for the first time in decades in the absence of human activity during the Covid-19 emergency.

Yet another Crocodile shifted from Wandoor -News courtesy Andaman Sheekha ::2 Sarthak Kanjilal Port Blair, Nov 28: A Crocodile of around 03 meter long and around 250kg in weight was trapped this morning in a Cage, which was placed by Department of Forest. As per reports, while

Community engagement drives snakebite control in EswatiniEswatini has a largely rural population living close to venomous snakes that cause an estimated 200 - 400 cases of snakebite envenoming each year.

‘Extreme concern’: Report gives glimpse into scale of Kalimantan bird tradeJAKARTA — Tens of thousands of birds, many of them protected species on the brink of extinction, are being openly traded in Indonesian Borneo, in the first clear picture to emerge of the extent of the practice there. Nearly 200 stores across the region, known as Kalimantan, were found to be selling more than 25,000 […]

LISTENING TO THE FOREST - WWF: together possibleFrom birdsongs to the calls of frogs, the cries of monkeys to the buzzing of billions of insects, the sounds of tropical forests make up a rich symphony. But does logging cause a discord, or is it possible to harvest timber while preserving this harmony?That’s what a new study in the Madre de Dios region of the Peruvian Amazon set out to find. Led by WWF in collaboration with the University of Puerto Rico, the study employed a technique called acoustic monitoring to analyse the impacts of timber harvesting on biodiversity. Researchers placed cell phones in the forest to pick up the calls and other sounds made by hundreds of species – including birds, monkeys, amphibians and insects. By analysing the recordings using computer algorithms and expert knowledge, they were able to assess the richness and abundance of species across different sites.

Animals Are Rewilding Our Cities. On YouTube, at Least. (Published 2020)The videos of deer and elephants, whether or not they’re real, speak to a budding hope: that the pandemic might change society, and us, for the better.

Reflections on International Tiger Day - Centre for Wildlife StudiesBlog by Dr. K. Ullas Karanth. As a wildlife scientist who has worked in tiger conservation since late 1960s, I have been asked by many tiger conservationists for my assessments on this ‘International Tiger Day’. Here below is my personal opinion. The substantial recovery of wild tigers took place in India between 1974 and 2000, ... Read moreReflections on International Tiger Day

George Schaller Out Front – Hosted by CWS in Collaboration with BIC - Centre for Wildlife StudiesOn the evening of 12 January 2020, the Bangalore International Centre stage saw the confluence of two inspirational minds – wildlife biologists who are also great storytellers. At the event, ‘George Schaller Out Front – Tracking a Legendary Naturalist’, hosted by the Centre for Wildlife Studies, in collaboration with BIC, a biopic capturing the essence ... Read moreGeorge Schaller Out Front – Hosted by CWS in Collaboration with BIC

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