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Conservation abandonment threatens global biodiversity goals, study warns

India, Nov. 10 -- Global efforts to meet biodiversity goals are being undermined by widespread 'conservation abandonment' New paper warns abandoned or reversed projects equal the size of Greenland T... Read More


In a first, 913 blackbuck and Nilgai herded from the air into 'bomas' in MP's Shajapaur

India, Nov. 9 -- The forest department of Madhya Pradesh has spent 11 days in herding out 913 blackbuck and Nilgai from revenue lands in Shajapur district of the state in order to mitigate human-wildl... Read More


Move free-ranging dogs from hospitals, schools, and cattle from highways: Supreme Court

India, Nov. 7 -- The Supreme Court has directed that free-ranging dogs be removed from schools, hospitals and other institutional areas. Local bodies must capture, sterilise and shelter the dogs, and... Read More


Conservation, digitally

India, Nov. 3 -- In the drought-scorched heart of Karnataka's Kolar district, residents of Keeluholali village once lived at the mercy of unreliable rains. Year after year, they watched crops wither a... Read More


Warming oceans and drying air driving ecological droughts across India's forests and croplands

India, Oct. 30 -- Warming oceans and rising atmospheric dryness are intensifying ecological droughts across India's forests and croplands. Forests in the Himalayas, Northeast, Central India and the W... Read More


Supreme Court upholds Calcutta High Court order directing Centre to resume MGNREGS in West Bengal

India, Oct. 27 -- The Supreme Court of India on October 27, 2025 upheld the Calcutta High Court's June judgment directing the Union government to resume works under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural E... Read More


Scientists find suspected bird flu cases in Southern Ocean island near Australia

India, Oct. 25 -- Australian scientists have found suspected cases of H5 avian influenza, commonly known as 'bird flu', among wildlife during their visit to the sub-Antarctic Heard Island. The island... Read More


High Court order on Adani-operated mine a 'mockery' of Forest Rights Act: Hasdeo activists

India, Oct. 25 -- The Hasdeo Aranya Bachao Sangharsh Samiti (HABSS) has challenged the revocation of the Community Forest Rights (CFRs) title granted to Ghatbarra village in Chhattisgarh, terming it '... Read More


IUCN Congress flags wildlife pet trade and environmental crimes as major global threats

India, Oct. 18 -- IUCN recognises the commercial wildlife pet trade as a major threat driving species decline and extinction. Calls for shift from a "negative list" to a "positive list" approach to r... Read More


Rainforests in Australia's tropical north become first to shift regime from carbon sink to source

India, Oct. 17 -- Driven by climate change, forests in Australia's tropical north have become the first in the world to transform from carbon sink to a source of emission, a study has found. The stud... Read More