The long-awaited 2021 State of the Environment Report adds political pressure on the Australian government for environmental conservation. The five-year environmental report says the Australian land and exotic wildlife are facing deterioration due to relentless climate change, resource extraction, and other causes. Australia’s unique wildlife
Nature always proves that it’s beyond our understanding, while mankind continues to find its mysteries through scientific ways. A rediscovery of Galápagos species, the ‘fantastic giant tortoise,’ has left everyone amused. It is because this species was declared extinct a century ago. But biologists have
Do you know that the Sunda pangolin is the world’s most poached and trafficked mammal? It is due to its high demand for meat and scales. Recently, in Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Malaysia’s Sabah state, the wildlife department fears that the Sunda pangolins will
Himachal Pradesh government has allowed the construction of several hydropower projects in the Kinnaur district. The aim of these hydroelectric projects is to fulfill India’s increasing requirements for renewable energy to tackle the rapidly changing climatic conditions. However, recent studies say that these projects are adversely
The University of East Anglia led a team of international researchers to work closely in Mauritius for investigating the cause of genetic erosion across Mauritius’s endangered pink pigeon population. Across the island nation, there was an increasing decline in pink pigeons in the late 1980s.
The species of Western Tragopan (regionally called Jajurana), Himachal Pradesh’s state bird, is on the verge of extinction. However, good news has come from the Great Himalayan National Park in Kullu, HP where the western tragopan clan has increased from 63 members to 70. A
The beautiful emperor penguins reside in Antarctica’s freezing icy and tundra seas. But sadly we won’t see this tallest penguin species in the region after the next 30 to 40 years. The reason for this is the increasingly changing climatic conditions that are rapidly melting
In the fast-changing world, good news seldom comes across. While most of humankind is eager to destroy the planet to attain its selfish goals in the name of progress and technology, scientists and a handful of people are working toward wildlife conservation. So the news
While war is often an outcome of human misunderstanding and selfish motives, it is the wildlife that suffers the most. Amid the raging Russia-Ukraine war, conservationists are worried about the future of several endangered wildlife species living in Ukraine. War can have a catastrophic impact
While the criticism against the act of rearing animals for slaughter to fulfill the global demand of meat consumption is raging, rarely any attention is paid to poaching, which despite of being a popular topic of environmental ethics and being illegal for decades, is still