In a major setback to mining companies indulged in illegal extraction of iron and manganese ore in Odisha since 2001, the Supreme Court on Wednesday cracked the whip and directed them to pay a comp

THE Department of National Parks and Wildlife has arrested three Chinese and two Zambians for alleged illegal possession of 25 rhino horns

The government has stepped up its fight against illegal mining activities as the Military prepares to deploy ten platoons to protect mining sites from the menace on Monday.

The Supreme Court on Monday decided to consider a plea by former chief minister N Dharam Singh against a High Court order that allowed recovery of over Rs 23 crore from him for the losses caused to

Windhoek-Namibia has since 2014 lost 245 elephants to poaching, out of which 17 were illegally hunted this year alone.

DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand chief secretary S Ramaswamy and advocate general S N Babulkar held a joint review meeting at the secretariat on Wednesday to evaluate progress made on directions given by the

CHENNAI: Almost three years after picking IAS officer U Sagayam to head the one-man commission to investigate the alleged illegal granite mining scam in Madurai district, the Madras high court is s

The South African government on Monday denied reports that it has approved international trade in rhino horns.

Rhinoceros horn can be easily bought in China despite it being illegal since 1993. The rhino horn products in antiques shop are far from antique. They are new and most likely been illegally trafficked from Africa to Vietnam and then into China.

Overexploitation is one of the main pressures driving wildlife closer to extinction, yet broad-scale data to evaluate species’ declines are limited. Using African pangolins (Family: Pholidota) as a case study, we demonstrate that collating local-scale data can provide crucial information on regional trends in exploitation of threatened species to inform conservation actions and policy. We estimate that 0.4-2.7 million pangolins are hunted annually in Central African forests.

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