Tahrcountry Musings

Goldman Sachs has announced the gift of a sprawling wilderness area in Chile to the Wildlife Conservation Society. The 272,000 hectares has ...

According to an Australian news site, a man was arrested for attempting to smuggle 44 native reptiles out of Australia. The 24-year old Syd...

According to a new report by the wildlife trade-monitoring network TRAFFIC Unregulated trade, at 10 to 100 times legal level, has caused Sou...

Reducing the world's mercury has been a contentious issue so far. Mercury pollution is a problem of global magnitude. On an average, th...

The latest issue of journal Nature has a nice paper on tropical rainforests and its utility in acting as carbon sink. S.L. Lewis et al rep...

Illegal wildlife trade has always been a threat to wildlife. Here comes some alarming news for Asian elephants. Booming illegal ivory prices...

International media has written volumes about the human suffering following the devastating bushfires of Australia. But the plight of wildli...

This happened in Philippines and is sure to warm the cockles of the heart of wildlife enthusiasts. Fishermen have rescued about 200 dolphins...

Scientists have isolated Isolongifolenone, a natural compound found in the Tauroniro tree ( Humiria balsamifera ) of South America, which ha...

Earth Hour is a global WWF climate change initiative intended to drive home the implications of climate change. Individuals, businesses, gov...

Scientists have discovered that if you call your cow by name lovingly she will give you more milk. Dairy farmers who address their cows by n...

Nature throws up amazing things in the process of man’s pursuit of ecological mysteries. It never ceases to surprise me. I am overawed and h...

Mathematical modeling of Antarctic by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) has brought to light the grave danger posed to Emperor pengu...

Many people have requested me to put the second circular of the 5th world congress on mountain ungulates here. In deference to their views ...

Alarm bells are ringing about the unscientific ways of harvesting wildlife including fish and plants. According to a new study by evolutiona...

This blog usually confines itself to wildlife and environmental affairs. But I thought this piece of information about Vicks VapoRub passed ...

My Australian contacts have sent me this inspiring story from Tasmania. Tasmania's Upper Florentine Valley saw some dramatic events yest...

The recent Smithsonian’s Symposium: “Will the rainforests survive? New Threats and Realities in the Tropical Extinction Crisis” had some int...

Human-made light sources are altering the natural light cycles impacting wildlife. Polarized light has been found to trigger animal behavior...

All of us are familiar with leading indicators used by economists to asses economy. Geologists use seismic indicators to try to predict eart...