Tahrcountry Musings

Scientists from Brazil's National Institute for Amazon Research and the Amazonas Secretariat for the Environment and Sustainable Develop...

Yangtze River dolphin ( Lipotes vexillifer ) in China is probably the world's most endangered mammal. Recent surveys found only 17 livin...

A new National Park named Mtirala National Park, covering 15,806 ha, has been established in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia.The area harb...

The Manipur Bush- Quail last sighted 99 years ago has been rediscovered in Manas National Park,Assam,India.The rediscovery was made ornithol...

Madagascar is famous for its well over 70 species of lemurs, primitive primates which are distant relations to humanity. The formal announce...

20 Jun 2006 St Kitts and Nevis – Japan’s recruitment drive to bring pro-whaling, anti-conservation countries into the International Whaling ...

Japan was narrowly defeated in its attempt to lift the whaling ban. The tabled resolution at the International Whaling Commission's annu...

On the 15th of this month a chain of Hawaiian Islands became the largest marine sanctuary in the world. Total extent is 362,580-square-kilom...

Brazilian government has announced the creation of new protected areas in the Amazon region totaling approximately 2.5 million ha. Amazon ha...

A new type of hammerhead shark has been discovered in US waters off the South Carolina coast. The shark has not yet been classified or named...

Due to over fishing by Europe's trawler men, juvenile herring are not maturing properly in North Sea. International Council for the Expl...

The animal that has the most number of legs (Nearly1,000 legs) of any animal on the planet, thought to be extinct has made a comeback. This ...

Researchers have identified the trigger that turns a motley assembly of locusts into a coordinated army capable of devastating vast expanses...

Research by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and BirdLife International has come up with the alarming finding that three...

The strife in Nepal has taken a heavy toll of wildlife. Field visits by WWF Nepal and park staff to sites inside the Bardia National Park fo...

Ibrahim Thiaw, the Director of the Union’s West Africa Office has been appointed as acting Director General of the World Conservation Union ...

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...