Tahrcountry Musings

IUCN considers that the Danger List of World Heritage Sites needs radical change if it is to remain an effective conservation tool. Many nat...

Overfishing and bycatch of Open Ocean (pelagic) Sharks and Rays is driving them to the brink of extinction. A recent study by the Internatio...

Swedish authorities have devised guidelines entitled 'Environmentally-smart Food Choices', for climate-friendly food choices. The au...

Inuits of Canada have the uncanny ability to identify a Polar Bear's sex, age and size from its foot prints in the snow. Hunters have be...

Path breaking research by scientists from the University of Pittsburgh and the Buffalo Museum of Science, headed by Dr Jeffrey H. Schwartz a...

Whisky and wildlife conservation sounds a wee bit awry. But Scotland’s Famous Grouse Whisky and RSPB (The Royal Society for the Protection ...

We still have not fully understood the intricacies of working of nature. We fiddle with it sometimes with good intentions but end up getting...

A bird that outpaces a Jet sounds unbelievable and has the feel of a leaf out of science fiction. But it is true. During courtship flights,...

All of us have at some time or other wondered why some animals are easy to tame while others are difficult if not impossible to tame. Here c...

Registration is now open for the 9th World Wilderness Congress For the first time ever, the WWC will convene in Latin America from 6-13 Nov...

The war has taken a heavy toll of Afghanistan’s wildlife. Ecosystem in many areas has been devastated by more than 30 years of conflict. By ...

Today the world is celebrating the World Oceans Day. This annual event serves to remind all of us our responsibility to protect the world...

According to a new study by researchers from the University of Tuebingen, Germany and the University of Applied Sciences in Konstanz, German...

When there is heartwarming events regarding wildlife in any country it is celebration time for conservationists across the globe. Here is so...

Mosquitoes brought to Galapagos by tourists by way of ships and aircrafts is posing a serious threat to the wildlife there. The endemic blac...

Migration of millions of Wildebeest across Serengeti Plains is familiar to anyone who watches Discovery or National Geographic channel. It i...

Here is an amazing piece of information from a recent research on plants done by Dr Richard Karban from Department of Entomology, University...

Magnificent Example from Canada In the pursuit of protecting the environment individuals can make a big difference. We need not depend on Go...

Ships entering Boston harbor has been a constant threat to North Atlantic Right Whales. Risk of collisions between large ships and whales w...

Researcher Teresa Abáigar Ancín, of the Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas (EEZA - CSIC) arid areas experiment station has succeeded in d...