Tahrcountry Musings

Virgin chief Sir Richard Branson has offered a prize of $ 25 million for the guy who comes up with the best idea to remove carbon dioxide fr...

Scientists studying the moth Manduca Sexta, have come up with the finding that moths control their flight by tiny gyroscope like sensors in...

At the just concluded Paris Conference for Global Ecological Governance President Chirac has expressed strong support for the 4 th IUCN Wor...

The latest United Nations Environment Programme report does not bode well for the Orangutans. Orangutans are the only great apes outside Afr...

This year's birth season for the highly endangered Nilgiri Tahr has started in Eravikulam National Park near Munnar,Kerala,India.The par...

The latest issue of Current Biology has some interesting news about butterfly promiscuity. A study of the species Hypolimnas bolina , common...

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A consortium of NGOs from around the globe “ Zero Mercury Coalition” , has called for immediate action by governments worldwide to phase out...

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...