Tahrcountry Musings

I guana the world’s only sea-feeding lizard has come up with a surprise for researchers. Scientists have noted that Iguanas recognizes and u...

In what could be termed only as ecological vandalism Fifty-eight endangered Red footed Falcons ( Falco vespertinus ) have been shot dead i...

The International Primatological Society is ringing the alarm bell for primates. The report says Almost a third of the world's primates...

A previously unknown population of Iberian lynx ( Lynx pardinus ) has been discovered in Spain.Iberian lynx is considered to be the world’...

Experts from 60 countries will gather for a conference at Loch Lomond , Scotland, United Kingdom from 22-25 October 2007, devising ways to ...

A new Memorandum of Understanding for the protection of the Eastern Atlantic Populations of the Mediterranean Monk Seal has been inked. Th...

315 million-year-old fossilised tracks of a reptile have been unearthed in Canada. The most likely track-maker was the Hylonomus lyelli rep...

Today is blog action day.Bloggers world wide will be writing about environmental issues. Here is a small piece from me. One thing that bot...

China's official Xinhua news agency reports that a rare South China tiger has been seen in the wild for the first time in decades. Chine...

Thousands of voices will speak out for the environment for the first-ever Blog Action Day on 15 October. This non-profit event, partnered by...

New research findings indicate that mammals use humans to shield against carnivores. This raise the possibility that redistribution has o...

African elephants are wary of bees. They have instinctive fear of the stings. The insects are able to inflict painful stings inside the anim...

The general belief to this day is that Kouprey, Cambodia’s national animal is a hybrid between Banteng and Zebu. Alexandre Hassanin and An...

The Economic Foundation UK says that the world as a whole is going into ecological debt driven by over-consumption. 'Ecological debt d...

People across the planet will be cleaning up their area and sharing the result with millions of people on the Internet in an innovative prog...

The latest issue of journal science has some interesting facts about crows, to be specific, about New Caledonian crows ( Corvus moneduloid...

Indonesia, which is facing flak from world community for deforestation at alarming rate, has decided to bow to the demands from environmenta...

10,000 Wildebeest have drowned while attempting to cross Kenya's Mara River. They were swept away by the current at a deep crossing and ...

Three new protected areas have been created in Papua New Guinea. The new wildlife reserves are the new Aramba, Tonda extension and Weriaver ...

In an effort to protect critically endangered wild ox saola ( Pseudoryx nghetinhensis ), the central Vietnamese provinces of Thua Thien Hu...