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Despite pandemic and lockdowns, illegal hunting and trade in wildlife continued across India, shows report

As many as 51 incidents of illegal wildlife trade were reported from Karnataka during 2020. Overall, 173 incidents were documented from southern States - Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana - in the year, a new analysis of data has found.

Koalas: Australia lists marsupial as endangered species

Australia has listed the koala as an endangered species across most of its east coast, after a dramatic decline in numbers. The once-thriving marsupial has been ravaged by land clearing, bushfires, drought, disease and other threats.

Hope for hedgehogs as numbers in Britain’s towns show signs of recovery

Britain’s urban hedgehogs are showing signs of recovery, according to a new report, but rural populations have fallen by as much as 75% in some regions in just 20 years.

Wildlife Headlines

Eco-tourism: Boats, bicycles new ways of exploring Kaziranga

Elephants and jeeps are no longer the only modes of regulated transport to call on the rhino in Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve, billed as the best-conserved home of the one-horned animal. The park ...

These feces-finding Fidos help save orcas and other endangered wildlife

That scat tells researchers incredibly valuable things about the animals: Levels of reproductive and stress hormones, nutrition profiles, toxin loads, microbiome details, pregnancy, loss of pregnancy and more are revealed once the scat is analyzed.

Extinction: Conservation success set against 31 lost species

In the third and final update for this year, Dr Bruno Oberle, director general of the IUCN, said the recovery of the European bison and 25 other species demonstrated "the power of conservation".

‘No action for keeping exotic animals after voluntary disclosure’

The Delhi High Court has said that once a person voluntarily discloses keeping exotic birds or animals under the Centre’s Voluntary Disclosure Scheme, he can’t be investigated for their ownership, trade and breeding.

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