Tahrcountry Musings

Social and Economic Benefits of Protected Areas An Assessment Guide Edited by Marianne Kettunen, Patrick ten Brink Routledge –...

Masters in Conservation Leadership  -  Applications and scholarship support for October 2014 This course is a full-time, one year Maste...

Novelist Thomas Pynchon, in his latest book Bleeding Edge (Penguin) underlines the fact that science and art can mesh with mutually b...

Here is the list of, UN's flagship environmental award winners POLICY LEADERSHIP Ms. Izabella Teixeira, Minister of Environment, B...

In India when a new road or bridge project is planned, there is only perfunctory reference to impact on wildlife. An EIA (Environmental im...

Friends,             After several months break, I am back on this blog. I will be blogging on all related matters of wildlife conservatio...

WCS/CWS India under the leadership of Dr Ullas Karanth has been developing new monitoring methodologies for tigers and prey species for o...

Dynamic performance assessment of protected areas Christopher P. Barbera, Mark A. Cochranea, b, , Carlos Souza Jr.b, , Adalberto Veríss...

In this piece of path breaking research, the researchers attempted to estimate the population of emperor penguins ( Aptenodytes fosteri )...

Young wildlife biologists, here is an opportunity for you to hone your skills in Periyar Tiger Reserve, India’s finest Tiger reserve. Per...

                                                            Photo courtesy: Highwaywilding.org Here is a very rare image of a Canada...

Here is an interesting piece of research done on giraffes . Prof Fred Bercovitch from the Primate Research Institute and Wildlife Resear...

Impact of vehicular traffic on the use of highway edges by large mammals in a South Indian wildlife reserve Sanjay Gubbi, H. C. Poornes...

The other day Girish from Karnataka, one of the regular readers of this blog, wanted a recommendation of a book on Population Genetics...

‘The Diversity of Sacred Lands in Europe’, provides a unique insight into Europe’s often forgotten sacred natural sites. It looks into ...

Disentangling effects of uncertainties on population projections: climate change impact on an epixylic bryophyte Alejandro Ruete , Wei ...

Dr Rick Relyea, University of Pittsburgh professor of biological sciences in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and di...

Here is an interesting book that I finished reading yesterday, Rob Dunn’s book, The Wild Life of Our Bodies . Dunn is a biology...

Norway is pumping in hundreds of millions of dollars a year to protect rainforests. A great gesture by all means, but here comes the pa...

Species richness matters for the quality of ecosystem services: a test using seed dispersal by frugivorous birds Daniel García and Dani...