Tahrcountry Musings

Fur seals were once hunted almost to extinction. Careful conservation measures have helped the species to re...

A Giant Panda in a Japanese zoo ( Adventure World in Wakayama) has given birth to twins bringing cheer to conservationists around the world...

Tahrcountry Wishes All Readers A Joyous Christmas

Scientists have discovered 52 new species of plants and animals in Borneo. The find includes catfish glyptothorax exodon with protruding ...

Researchers from the University of Victoria, Canada, have come across tonguefish that like to skip across pools of molten sulphur of underse...

Scientists have discovered in tiny drops of ancient amber, 220-million-year-old microscopic organisms. The amber was found near Cortina d...

A team of scientists at the University of California-Santa Cruz headed by Dr Scott Schaffer is using Albatrosses to gather huge numbers of s...

According to a report by Zoological Society of London (ZSL), Illegal hunting and trade is pushing some Mongolian animals like the snow leopa...

December 11 th is International Mountain Day, a day to reflect on the people who are directly affected by ecosystem degradation and climate...

Greenpeace activists have poured a truckload of logging waste at the office of Kayu Lapis Indonesia (KLI) one of the country's largest l...

A new report published by TRAFFIC says, CITES, the Convention on the International Trade on Endangered Species is not being used to its full...

A team of researchers from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands has found that urban species of birds sing short, fast songs rather t...

15 million hectares (57,915 sq miles) of Rain Forests in the northern Para state, Brazil, is getting the status of protected area bringing c...

20 years back acid rains had completely wiped out River Salmon in Wye River in mid Wales. Now they are returning owing to the successful con...

The recently launched a project to protect the migratory flyways of water birds throughout Africa and Eurasia under the aegis of UN is the b...

13 new species of freshwater fishes previously unknown to science have been discovered at the confluence of the Orinoco and Ventuari rivers ...

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...