Tahrcountry Musings

A frozen global seed vault to ensure diversity of food plants in the event of a catastrophe has been planned in a mountainside on the island...

Six months of field research conducted by WWF along Nepal’s longer river, the Karnali, has shown that river dolphin populations are more end...

The World Conservation Union (IUCN) Council today voted for Spain as the host country of the fourth World Conservation Congress in 2008. The...

Crackdown on toxic pesticides and concerted protection has helped a bird of prey to thrive throughout the UK, 35 years after it was on the b...

Professor Carlos Rocha and a team of researchers from the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia (UPTC) in Boyac, have sighted...

The last date for receipt of abstrcts has been extended to 15th June. See http://www.wmcu2006.org/callforpaper.htm for details.

According to a study published in the latest issue of journal Science . Bonobos and orangutans are capable of future planning. Dr Josep Call...

Several Bowhead whales ( Balaena mysticetus ) have been observed near Svalbard Archipelago ( Norway) where they have been spotted only a few...

Chinese Forestry Department of Shaanxi Province and WWF'’s China Programme have launched a programme to build up an ecological corridor ...

Sharks are reportedly able to detect magnetic fields. Some are even repelled by magnetic fields. Michael Herrmann, a research associate at ...

Please note that the URL of CSG/SSC of IUCN has Changed.New address is http://pages.usherbrooke.ca/mfesta/iucnwork.htm Also, please note tha...

St Andrews University researchers studying in Florida have discovered that dolphins recognise each other by names. The dolphins were able to...

One of the world's most important blue whale colonies have discovered off the coast of Chile. This is rated, as is one of the biggest fe...

A three-week voyage by scientists in the Atlantic has come up with tiny animals which appear new to science. The voyage is part of the ongoi...

Abbott's booby( Papasula abbotti ) one of the world's rarest birds and a native of Australia's Christmas Island is making a come...

Laos is turning out to be the lost world of frogs. A study conducted by Wildlife Conservation Society over the past 2 years, assisted by the...

2006 IUCN Redlist has been released. The total number of species declared officially Extinct is 784 and a further 65 are only found in capti...

A flock of white-shouldered ibis Pseudibis davisoni , one of the worlds' most endangered birds has been discovered in a remote province ...

Xiang Xiang the panda today became the first captive-born giant panda to be released into the wild. Xiang Xiang was raised at the China Cons...

A new report by WWF — Offshore Oil Spill Response in Dynamic Ice Conditions — concludes that the highly dynamic sea ice conditions around Sh...