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FILE PHOTO: A member of the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio) walks next a tractor used for deforestation at the National Forest Bom Futuro in Rio Pardo

Forest Rangers Struggle To Prevent Poaching Amid Lockdowns

Kanupriya Kapoor 21/05/2021

More than half of India's 28 states have already...

A carcass of a juvenile woolly rhinoceros, found in permafrost in Yakutia, is seen in this handout photo

Woolly Rhino Remains Found in Melting Siberian Permafrost

Tatyana Gomozova 03/01/2021

It likely roamed the Siberian hinterland more than 12,000...

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Are Wildlife Trade Bans Doing the Opposite of What They Intend?

Natasha Gilbert, Knowable 21/11/2020

Trafficking in wild animal and plant products is driving...

Rhinos with their calves standing on an elevated land in the flooded Kaziranga National Park in Assam. Credit: PTI

China Revokes Ban on Trading Products Made From Tigers, Rhinos – What Next?

Neha Simlai 07/11/2018

India itself is home to about 60% of tigers...

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Kaziranga to China’s Kunming: The Long and Winding Route of Illegal Rhino Horn Trade

Rajeev Bhattacharyya 02/09/2018

A new study has found that horns of rhinos...

A cursory internet search will reveal that news articles regularly report the value of confiscated wildlife products either in attention-grabbing-in-your-face headlines or in the content. Credit: IanZA/pixabay

The Media’s Disservice to India’s Wildlife That Only It Can Fix

Chaitanya Krishna 02/07/2018

The current practice of reporting the monetary value of...

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‘Beloved but Ignored’ Is a Limited View of How Charismatic Species Survive

T.V. Padma 15/04/2018

Some scientists question the validity of this study whose...