Leonardo DiCaprio has announced a $43 million pledge for species conservation in the Galapagos Islands. It comes as a welcoming move amid climate change and collapsing ecosystems. The initiative has been started in partnership with Re:wild, an organization founded by a group of renowned conservation
Dogs are known to be man’s best friend, and as a good example, intelligent dogs at Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya work to maintain security in the area. Recently, the paw-squad successfully made four arrests, bringing the poaching incidents to zero. Hands down to their
Following in the footsteps of Nagaland, another North-Eastern state, Arunachal Pradesh, has initiated a campaign to protect the wildlife and forests. Though the state’s tribal population has a long history of hunting wild animals for survival, the state government is determined to save the wildlife.
Wildlife corridors are links across landscapes that connect patches of fragmented habitat and offer a safe passage to animals without human intrusion. They support natural processes such as migration that occur in a healthy environment. These movement corridors also aid the species to find resources,
For innumerable millennia, indigenous tribes in different corners of the world have been helping in wildlife conservation. They have walked the same path as tigers, drank the same water as wild buffaloes, and sang the same songs as native birds. Living lives on the values
Elusive by nature, gorgeous by appearances – snow leopard is a large cat native to the mountains of Central and South Asia. The animal is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List as the global population has dwindled down to less than 10,000 individuals
The critically endangered Great Indian Bustards are beautiful birds, but they have been facing existential threats from various anthropogenic activities. In an initiative to protect the endangered bird, the Wildlife Conservation Society India (WSCI) is installing flap-like diverters on live wires to protect Great Indian Bustards. The
A team of conservationists has released 26 Tasmanian devils into a national park in eastern New South Wales (NSW), marking the first time the endangered species have returned to mainland Australia in 3,000 years. The world’s largest surviving marsupial carnivore, the Tasmanian devil, has been
The African continent is blessed with an amazing variety of wildlife. However, many Southern African countries are battling severe challenges with wildlife poaching where illegal trade in pangolins, rhino horns and elephant tusks continue to escalate despite strong cooperation between member states. The Republic of
While conservationists are working hard to protect wildlife in these critical times of climate change, Botswana is facing a conservation disaster as 275 elephants have died under mysterious circumstances. The government is yet to test the carcasses of the dead animals that have died in