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‘We need to move fast’: As Vivek Menon makes history at IUCN, an interview

PREMIUM
With a black-banded trinket snake in Meghalaya. (Subhamoy Bhattacharjee)
art culture
Updated on Oct 31, 2025 02:35 pm IST

If there is a ‘father of conservation policy’, it is Julian Huxley

PREMIUM
Huxley also ushered in CITES, 50 years ago, a global trade agreement that is still saving species from extinction. (Wikimedia)
art culture
Updated on Aug 15, 2025 02:12 pm IST

South Africa pauses cheetah translocation after Kenya refuses to provide them

Eight cheetahs were flown from Namibia in September 2022 and 12 from South Africa in February 2023. (PTI/Representative)
india news
Published on Jul 30, 2025 11:59 pm IST

15-year-old gaur dies of age-related complications at Delhi zoo

An alleged image of two elephants at the Delhi Zoo taking shelter under a shed at the enclosure were shared widely on social media. The zoo said the elephants were well cared for and the chains were precautionary. (X)
delhi news
Published on Jun 16, 2025 05:50 am IST

Endangered Thamin deer dies at Delhi Zoo

Endangered Thamin deer dies at Delhi Zoo
delhi news
Published on Apr 02, 2025 06:04 am IST

Rare Indian grasslands’ bird sighted in Kanpur

The Bristled Grassbird (Shared by Raghav Gupta)
lucknow news
Updated on Aug 17, 2024 05:16 am IST

Pair of ‘vulnerable’ cheer pheasants released into wild near Shimla

A total of 12 cheer pheasants gave been released into the wild in last 2 years.
chandigarh news
Updated on Dec 16, 2023 05:12 am IST

Another Bustard chick hatched from eggs of artificially reared couple in Jaisalmer

The second captive breed chick successfully hatched on April 27 at Sam breeding centre (HT Photo)
jaipur news
Updated on Apr 29, 2023 05:03 pm IST

Great Indian Bustard chick hatches from birds reared in captivity

Great Indian Bustard chick hatches from birds reared in captivity
india news
Updated on Apr 02, 2023 03:37 am IST

Bustard chick hatched from eggs of artificially reared couple in Jaisalmer

(HT Photo)
jaipur news
Updated on Apr 01, 2023 07:09 pm IST

Whale shark caught by fishing trawler at Sassoon Dock, state authorities to book offenders

Suresh Warak, range forest officer (mangrove cell), said the shark’s carcass had begun decomposing.
mumbai news
Updated on Aug 12, 2020 02:23 pm IST

Rare hog badgers found in Tripura for the first time

The warden, D K Sharma said that this is for the first time, the presence of hogs has been recorded in the State.
trending
Published on Jun 18, 2020 10:45 am IST

86% more winged visitors reach Kanjli wetland this year

HT Image
cities
Published on Jan 24, 2020 10:25 pm IST

Despite bad ecology, Sambhar got more birds this year than before

The waterbird census is coordinated by Wetlands International South Asia and is carried out in January every year in Asia and Australasia across 27countries with the participation of thousands of volunteers to record the status of important wetlands habitat and water birds diversity with population estimates.
india news
Updated on Jan 24, 2020 06:57 am IST

Indian gaur spotted in Konkan sanctuary for the first time in recorded history

mumbai news
Updated on Jan 23, 2020 07:53 pm IST

How’ll metro impact Aarey species? Int’l body to check

Aarey is spread across 1,281 hectares (ha) in the western suburbs of Mumbai.
mumbai news
Updated on Sept 12, 2019 01:59 am IST

Remote Pangi Valley bustles with faunal diversity

india news
Updated on Aug 21, 2019 10:54 pm IST

Mumbai has a long way to go in protecting mangrove forests

Studies have shown that the city is losing its mangrove forests.
mumbai news
Published on Aug 05, 2019 01:09 am IST

Juvenile fishing: Eating ocean fish into extinction

Eating fish that are caught from sustainable stocks will tackle overfishing and juvenile killing, which is threatening marine species to extinction.
mumbai news
Updated on Jun 17, 2019 12:54 am IST

Assam temple helps nurture ‘extinct’ turtle back to life

The Hayagriva Madhav temple has provided a safe haven to the turtles (representational image).
trending
Updated on Jun 11, 2019 11:01 am IST

Asiatic wild dogs may soon vanish from their forest homes

A Bengaluru-based study found that the dhole is prone to local extinctions in 37,000 square km surveyed across Western Ghats.
india news
Published on Apr 04, 2019 10:53 pm IST

Meghalaya’s community-managed forests protect endangered Western Hoolock Gibbon

A female Hoolock Gibbon. It is estimated that only about 3,000 Western Hoolock gibbons are left in northeast India today.
india news
Published on Mar 25, 2019 03:05 pm IST

India’s perfume tree agarwood a step away from extinction

The agarwood tree (Aquilaria malaccensis), whose resin extract is widely used in perfumes and incense, is one step away from being declared extinct in the wild by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
environment
Updated on Feb 22, 2021 04:15 pm IST

In search of elusive high-altitude tigers, India, Nepal and Bhutan fall back upon camera traps

A tiger that was trapped by a camera in Askot Wildlife Sanctuary at an altitude of 12,000 ft in Uttarakhand in 2016.
dehradun news
Updated on Apr 27, 2018 09:11 pm IST

Singapore’s beloved Inuka, first polar bear born in the tropics, is put down

This file photo taken on April 13, 2018 shows polar bear Inuka sitting on a sand bed inside its enclosure at the Singapore Zoo.
world news
Updated on Apr 25, 2018 11:46 am IST
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