Tahrcountry Musings

It is a known fact that dramatic increase in obesity has occurred among humans within the last several decades.  I was fascinated to read in...

Statistician Edward Wegman has alleged that research report on climate change led by scientist Michael Mann was a copy and paste affair. The...

Mark Ryan Darmarai from Malaysia has notched up the first prize of BBC Wildlife Magazine camera trap photo competition. His magnificent pic...

Conservationists in England are an elated lot. The Rosser's sac spider, thought to be extinct in the UK has been photographed for the fi...

Have a look at this week's wonderful wildlife images from Guardian. Click HERE

The paper “Can the abundance of tigers be assessed from their signs?, authored by Yadvendradev Jhala, Qamar Qureshi and Rajesh Gopal , publi...

Endosulfan is an extremely hazardous and outdated agro-chemical banned in over 70 countries, including all EU countries, the US, Australia a...

I was fascinated to read about the latest on the elusive great white sharks ( Carcharodon carcharias )    of the Mediterranean Sea .    The...

A new book, The Systemic Insecticides: A Disaster in the Making by toxicologist Dr Henk Tennekes   warns that dangerous insecticides know...

I was reading the other day a paper on Kalahari drongos in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B . The paper dealt with an ingeniou...

Have a look at this week's wildlife images from Guardian. Click HERE

The way cats lap up liquid so elegantly has always enamored people. Now the mystery has been cracked by Dr Roman Stocker Working with resear...

A new study done by scientists from Oregon State University and the University of Washington, have come up with the findings that there are ...

A baffling rapid decline of eels in Welsh rivers has flummoxed the conservationists and made them a worried lot. Overfishing and dams that...

Habitat fragmentation is one of the greatest threats to large carnivores’ across the world. Crisscrossing...

Have a look at this week's wildlife images from Guardian. Click HERE

H ere is a great story that is bound to warm the cockles of the heart of the conservation fraternity. Wayuu people of Colombia have shown t...

I read in Guardian a very severe indictment of much touted deal to protect the world's wild species and places . The writing was by Geor...

I was delighted to hear from Brian my friend from UK about the setting up of world’s largest fully protected marine reserve .  Britain has ...

My friend Ramesh has requested me to blog on the new initiative of UNEP, which allows virtual tour of world’s protected areas.  Ramesh says ...