Tahrcountry Musings

Adam Walker spotted the shark underneath him while swimming the Cook Strait. His swim was to raise money for the   Whale and Dolphin C...

It is not every day that we hear about a scientist taking on the mighty and powerful and come up as a winner. Dr Suren Gazaryan, a bat s...

This is a repost from IUCN website. We hope this article would act as an inspiration for other budding conservationists. 21-year-o...

The Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) at the University of Kent is pleased to announce the launch of the 2014 DICE MSc ...

Protecting endangered wildlife against the onslaught of poachers armed with latest gadgets and weapons is a daunting task. There certainly ...

My friend James and I, had always maintained that local ecological knowledge (LEK) has a great place in the wildlife mangers’ repertoire....

Here is the pic of something unusual. A marsupial frog  ( Gastrotheca dysprosita) .   The discovery was made in the Andes of Northern Peru...

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Wildlife Day, to be observed on 3 March: For millennia, people and cul...

Montana State University researchers have shown that wildlife crossing structures can help maintain genetically healthy populations of bea...

The forest change data is now available for download. This has been made possible by the University of Maryland, Google, and other partner...

Birds & People by Mark Cocker Photography: David Tipling Here is a remarkable book by Mark Cocker -- the UK's finest liv...

The known history of Doñana National Park goes back over 700 years – the area was once a favourite hunting reserve of several Spanis...

A group of organizations fighting wildlife crime have banded together and  launched  WildLeaks - the first global, secure online whistlebl...

The United Nations General Assembly has designated March 3 as World Wildlife Day. This will coincide with the day of the adop...

     Invitation letter from Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Director General of IUCN    IUCN and our partners Parks Australia and t...

In an effort to clamp down on elephant and rhino poaching, Kenya has imposed lifetime imprisonment for poachers. This is in  addition to S...

If you are planning to buy an inverter, don't go for the brand SUKAM. Their after sales service is atrocious. I had the misfortune of ...

At long last China has started doing what we all wished. Chinese Government has started cracking down on poachers. In a significant move C...

Pic Credit:  Danau Girang Field Centre.   Sunda leopard ( Neofelis diardi ) is Borneo's largest predator, but very little is ...

Re-introduction is acquiring an increasingly important role in conservation. This latest edition of Global Reintroduction Perspectives fro...