Wildlife populations monitored across the globe have declined by a massive 69 per cent between 1970 and 2018, according to this WWF's Living Planet Report (LPR) 2022. Monitored wildlife populations - mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish - have seen a devastating 69% drop on average since 1970, according to …
Lounging in the shade may sound soothing, but it could be the death of many lizards if global warming continues at current rates. As temperatures inch upward, the reptiles rest more and hunt less. As a result, 20 percent of lizard species could go extinct by 2080, a new study …
Dumka, May 10: In a grim reminder to the 2008 Bero deaths, 19 students of a state-run primary school in Deoghar fell ill today after eating a midday meal of khichdi that allegedly had a boiled lizard in it. While 16 were released after treatment, three have been admitted to …
State government’s Casuarina plantation scheme on India’s east coast is affecting the sand dune ecosystems. The Olive Ridley turtles are just one of the species at risk. M Vikram Reddy, faculty at the Pondicherry University, talks to Sumana Narayanan about his student’s study on skinks On the study Skinks are …
On what led to the find In 1984, GSI started an excavation in Gujarat and unearthed several dinosaur nesting sites. One nest had bones entangled with a crushed egg and a dinosaur baby. Palaeontologist Jeffrey Wilson’s analysis showed the fossil to contain a snake with a head atop. Wilson had …
one stormy day a snake was hungry. The 3.5-metre-long reptile spotted a half-metre infant dinosaur struggling out of its eggshell. Slithering into its unguarded nest, the snake curled up next to the hatchling ready to strike—something it was not destined to accomplish. A downpour must have impacted a stream nearby …
Vertebrates are an indicator of the quality of the environment and are considered necessary to reduce the time and effort required to develop management strategies. This study document the species diversity of lower vertebrates in the Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary, with special reference to fishes, amphibians and reptiles.
Vast tracts of Borneo yet to be biologically explored KUALA LUMPUR: A lungless frog, a frog that flies and a slug that shoots love darts are among 123 new species found in Borneo since 2007 in a project to conserve one of the oldest rain forests in the world. A …
Adoption of Python at Van Vihar, Bhopal was done by Md. Shakil residing at Chinar Fortune City, Hosangabad Road, Bhopal. Shakil came to Van Vihar for registration for World Watching camp. After getting information he immediately deposited 720 rupees for adoption of Python. Director, Van Vihar SS Rajput gave adoption …
KOHORA: Often snake are killed due to its venomous quality without understanding its actual importance in maintaining the balance and ecology. Snakes help in protection of foodgrains by killing and eating insects, rats and rodents and keeping their population at a threshold level.
The initiation of a World Bank project during the summer of 2007 involved the planting of casuarina saplings (Casuarina equisetifolia) in the sand dunes of the east coast of Tamil Nadu in order to raise a protective plantation a bioshield to blunt the impact of high sea-waves like the tsunami …
BARIPADA: In a major boost to anti-poaching surveillance in Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR), Worldwide Fund for Nature - India (WWF-India) has extended its assistance to the reserve by providing some essential equipment and gears. Diwakar Sharma, associate director, Species Conservation Programme, WWFIndia, handed over the essential equipment and gears to …
In order to save snakes, scorpions and other poisonous creatures which stray into human habitations and are killed, a villager, Bhanwar Lal Swami, alias Sooraj Kumar, has set up an organisation in this district. Named the Snakes Friends Organisation, members of this NGO reach the place on a phone call …
At least 1,610 saltwater (estuarine) crocodiles were sighted by the Bhitarkanika forest personnel in the annual census of the crocodile, which was recently concluded at the creeks, rivulets and water bodies of the Bhitarkanika river system, said DFO of Rajnagar Mangrove (Wildlife) Forest Division PK Behera. The saltwater crocodiles
THERE is little connection between an ultraviolet-ray light sourced from Australia and clumps of fish meat with bones carefully picked clean, but together the two form a perfect gift for the Capital's unusual guests -- two baby crocodiles. Poached from Tamil Nadu's Hogenakkal Falls and rescued from the poacher's luggage …
The elephants are enjoying oil massages, tigers are getting beef for lunch and the hippos are being fed mahua. Animals at Birsa Munda Zoological Park, about 22km from the state capital, are getting the royal treatment this year to shield them cope with the cold.
NAVI MUMBAI: Human development at Uran taluka in Raigad district is hurting quite a few of its original inhabitants. While quarrying had already disturbed quite a few species, environmentalists are concerned that landfills are uprooting many others from their home. Villagers near the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) area, Chirner, …
Jaipur: Rajasthan minister Ashok Bairwa has come under fire from animal rights activists after he reportedly staged a snake dance at a fair at Sawai Madhopur on September 15. Alleging that the forest department did not initiate action against Bairwa as he is a minister,
