Tahrcountry Musings

In what has been described as the largest ever translocation,20 elephants have been airlifted from Botswana to Angola's Kissama National...

The general belief is that the markings on the birds’ eggs are for camouflage, useful in concealing eggs from predators. Now British ornitho...

Here is good tiding for the followers of California Condors ( Gymnogyps californianus ) recovery programme. Scientists say condors released ...

Greenpeace has named Indonesian Emmy Hafild, a seasoned environmentalist and former director of the Indonesian Forum for the Environment, as...

Scientists have discovered that a species of spider, Evarcha culicivora , found around Lake Victoria in Uganda and Kenya has a propensity fo...

A paper in the journal Environmental Conservation by Bill von Hippel from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and Frank Von Hippel from...

The precincts of Avila University in Kansas is agog about the discovery of a new lizard in South Caribbean, by the University’s Professor Ro...

Natural gas development in western is forcing mule deer into less suitable winter range, in Pinedale Anticline. The drop of animals using th...

Under the aegis of WWF, Chinese and Russian college students are working together to protect and create peoples’awareness of Heilongjiang R...

A research team team from Daegu Science College (N.Korea) headed by Professor Oh Han-taek has documented aberrations in mating behaviour of ...

Leading Primatologist Frans de Waal in his latest book OUR INNER APE, gives a fascinating account of behaviour of chimpanzees and bonobos, a...

Experts had believed that lynx became extinct in the UK 4,000 years ago when the climate cooled and became wetter. But the latest carbon dat...

Kerala, home to India’s best managed Wildlife reserve (Periyar Tiger Reserve), is being targeted by tiger poachers. Poachers killed 4 tigers...

The Federal Government of Australia has turned down the proposal from Northern Territory Government to allow crocodile hunting. Government o...

Black footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) listed as North America’s most endangered mammal by US Fish and Wildlife Service, is limping back fro...

A female great white shark has travelled from Africa to Australia and back, a total of more than 20,000 kilometres, in nine months. New York...

The list of 10 most endangered Wildlife Reserves of US has been announced by the environmental organisation, Defenders of Wildlife.The list ...

The latest to join save Alabtross campaign is Sir David Attenborough Albatross is facing a grim situation. An estimated 100,000 albatrosses ...

Wasteful and unregulated methods of fishing employed by Spanish fishermen are posing serious risk to Sharks. Irish, Norwegian and British ma...

Palaeontologists have uncovered remains of 2 flying reptiles that lived 120 million years ago. The reptiles belonged to species Pterosaur.Th...