Tahrcountry Musings

E ven though the US, with 5 per cent of the world’s population, is responsible for 25 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions and accounts for ...

Protection strategies for Europe's rarest songbird, the aquatic warbler ( Acrocephalus paludicola ), is getting a shot in the arm follow...

For the first time, a team 0f scientist from the Snow Leopard Trust, the Northwest Frontier Province Wildlife Department of Pakistan and WWF...

Ethiopia’s Lion Zoo is poisoning lion cubs and selling the corpses to be stuffed because it cannot afford to feed them. The dead cubs are so...

Three million barn swallows ( Hirundo rustica ) are under threat of losing valuable roosting habitat in South Africa. The numbers represent ...

A joint China-Hong Kong research team has discovered a genetic link between SARS in civet cats and humans. The r esearch project was join...

T he loss of habitat had led to steep drop of Dormice (Muscardinus avellanarius) in Britain. The efforts to stem this tide are coming to fru...

The first meeting of the new Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel and Sakhalin Energy Investment Company, which was convened by IUCN the World ...

Indonesia and United States has signed a pact to help stop illegal logging in Indonesia, habitat for most of the world's orangutans and ...

Scientists have captured what is believed to be the rarest big cat on Earth, the Far Eastern leopard( Panthera pardus orientalis ) in the r...

T he 2006 Reuters-IUCN Media Award for Excellence in Environmental Reporting goes to Marina Walker Guevara of Argentina for her story “The c...

Fires on the island of Borneo have killed up to 1,000 orangutans. The fires have been raging across central Borneo for months. There has be...

According to conservationists, urgent attention is needed to save the reclusive Balkan lynx. Only around 100 of the big cats are thought to ...

The Dingo ( Canis lupus dingo ) is a much-maligned animal in Australia particularly in sheep rearing areas. Sheep farmers attempt to complet...

Cayman blue iguana (Cyclura lewisi) is one of the critically endangered species in the world. The wild population of blue iguanas is expect...

The greater horseshoe bat, a very rare bat facing extinction threat has been discovered at the National Trust’s Dolaucothi Gold Mines in Car...

Reuters Foundation and the World Conservation Union (IUCN) have announced the regional winners of the 2006 Reuters-IUCN Media Awards for Exc...

The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (Ices) has said in its latest report that stocks of cod remained below sustainable ...

According to researchers from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), poaching has brought the hippopotamus population in Democratic Republi...

For the past couple of months I was virtually on my toes as one of the organisers of the 4th World Congress on Mountain Ungulates held at M...