Tahrcountry Musings

Red Barbed Ants (Formica rubibarbis) one of the rarest native species in UK, is on the decline due to habitat loss. It is now found only in ...

The "Alliance pour la Planète" (A national grouping of environmental associations) has appealed to all citizens to give the planet...

The Big Garden Bird Watch, a national survey of garden birds, organized by RSPB in Britain is a unique event. The event was kick started in ...

The plunder of Tuna has been bothering the environmentalists for some time now. Global tuna stocks are critically depleted and some species,...

Last week WWF had alleged that coffee growers had cleared land in Bukti Barisan Sewlatan National Park and this is posing serious threat to ...

The World’s first Rhinoceros Conceived By Artificial Insemination has been born in Budapest zoo. The vets at Budapest zoo decided to do arti...

A study of wasp behaviour using radio frequency identification tags, in the tropics of Panama, by Zoological Society of London is throwing n...

Barrow Island described as Australia's 'Galapagos' because of its rare and endangered species, is the second largest island in W...

The latest issue of Proceedings of National Academy of Science Journal has interesting info about flying Dinos. It postulates that the flyin...

I ncredibly white scales whiter than the enamel on human tooth and 10 times thinner than human hair on a SE Asian Cyphochilus beetle has fa...

A survey conducted by BBC Wildlife Magazine has selected Montgomeryshire as the best wildlife area in Wales. What impressed BBC team were th...

From a population of 612 individuals in 2000, the Rhino ( Rhinoceros unicornis) population in Nepal has come down to 405 today. The main...

Edge Animals are those having few close relatives, genetically distinct, and require immediate action to save them from extinction. Now unde...

Researchers from University of Alberta Canada, surveying streams in the forests of Alberta, believe that Beavers are helping to check declin...

Madagascar pochard( Aythya innotata) last seen alive in 1991 has been rediscovered in the wild after a search of 18 years. Scientists of Du...

I n what is believed to be the first of it kind in the world, birth of a Rhino will be captured on a BBC run webcam. The historic event wil...

A Whale has accidentally hit a sailing vessel about 80 nautical miles off the west coast of North Island , New Zealand and damaged it. Linds...

Unbridled tourism development plans are posing serious threat to Grenada dove ( Leptotila wellsi ). Government of Grenada is planning to sel...

I reland's National Parks and Wildlife Service is planning reintroduction of White-Tailed Eagle( Haliaeetus albicilla) , one of the worl...

The new Director General of IUCN the World Conservation, Ms Julia Marton-Lefèvre has assumed office. Before joining IUCN, Ms Marton-Lefèvre ...