extinction

elephants, Asian elephants, extinction, climate change, charismatic species, habitat fragmentation, water availability, human-animal conflicts, Himalayas, floodplains, land use change,

Asian Elephants May Lose up to Half Their Habitats by Century’s End: Study

Lakshmi Supriya 02/04/2019

Elephants could lose 42% of the total land available...

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Climate Change and an Extinct Mouse: Lessons for the Himalayas

Omair Ahmad 23/02/2019

The extinction, a result of human-driven climate change, should...

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Extinction Is Happening at 1,000 Times the Normal Speed

Elizabeth Boakes and David Redding 10/07/2018

Extinction is broadening its reach, so consensus and urgent...

A thylacine with a distended pouch at Adelaide Zoo, 1889. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Tasmanian Tigers Were in Trouble Even Before Humans Came to Australia

Lakshmi Supriya 14/12/2017

A new study of the genes of a long-dead...

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What is the Kashmir Government Doing to Revive the Hangul Population?

Mudasir Ahmad 12/05/2017

Even with the hangul on the brink of extinction,...

A keeper gives peanut to an orangutan inside a cage shortly after it arrived from Thailand at Halim Perdanakusuma airport in Jakarta

Trading in Extinction: Is Pet Trade Killing off Animal Species?

Alice Catherine Hughes 10/02/2017

Entire populations of 'pets' are being collected using academic...

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‘Pristine’ Landscapes Haven’t Existed for Thousands of Years, Says New Study

James Dyke 12/06/2016

If you want to escape civilisation and head into...