Tahrcountry Musings

In a spectacular case of symbiosis leaf-cutting ants have been cultivating fungus gardens that provide a safe home for the fungi and a food ...

For some time now exploding Gerbil population in their Xinjiang region has exasperated the Chinese officials. Gerbils have threatened the fr...

According to the latest research spearheaded by Climate scientist Dr Paul Fraser two new greenhouse gases, one emitted by the electronic ind...

Professor Byron Lamont from Curtin University of Technology Australia, and his colleagues, has come up with some surprising findings regardi...

Plastics ingestion by leatherback turtles is taking a heavy toll of the critically endangered species. This is the result arrived at by Dr. ...

Online registration is now open for the 5th World Congress on Mountain Ungulates. Log on to the conference website www.vworldconferenceung...

Tropical rainforests act as important carbon sinks.These forests have been continuously giving us a subsidy. Latest research indicates that ...

Indonesia has long been troubled by deforestation. It has the unenviable reputation of having the highest rate of deforestation in Asia. Pal...

Do you really need that bottle of packaged drinking water? The latest research on bottled water has confirmed what the environmentalists hav...

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...