European Union fisheries ministers hammered out a 2013 quota deal on Thursday which they said struck a compromise between protecting over-exploited stocks such as haddock and plaice and safeguardin

Elephant and rhino poaching surged to record levels in 2011 and an increase in illegal tiger hunting makes the species’ extinction a real near-term threat with only about 3,200 of the big cats left in the wild, according to a report commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund.

The report, launched on Wednesday, found that illicit trade in wildlife is worth at least $19 billion a year with organised criminals viewing it as high profit and low risk because governments don’t give it a high enough priority and haven’t implemented an effective response.

The National Bear Action Plan, released by the Centre in New Delhi on Tuesday, has sounded an alarm on shrinking bear habitat in Bengal.

British government support for low-carbon electricity generation will triple by 2020 after the energy and finance ministries on Friday reached a deal over costly reforms.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned in its 2012 edition of the World Energy Outlook that global energy demands are set to grow with India, China and West Asia accounting for 60 per cent of the increase.

A large percentage of this increase will be in the area of fossil fuels which received subsidies to the tune of $ 523 billion in 2011, up almost 30 per cent from 2010 and six times more than subsidies being given to renewables.

Some big banks do little more than pay lip service to environmental issues. HSBC likes to think of itself as different.

In an effort to revive the population of vultures that has sharply gone down over the past 10 to 15 years in the country, a sanctuary for the species is being established in Nagarparkar, where the

Second Asian Ministerial Conference: “This is not a pledge to save tigers, but a pledge to save humanity itself,” agriculture minister (Dr) Pema Gyamtsho said yesterday, at a follow up meet on the

Itanagar: At a time when there is an overarching concern about the paradigms of development and protection of natural resources in Arunachal Pradesh, it was a very proud moment when the State and its traditional communities were applauded for their sustainable use and management of resources.

The applause came at the COP11 (XIth conference of parties convention on biological diversity) in Hyderabad yesterday. Various responses from the international audience at the side event on ‘Different Indigenous And New Approaches In Natural Resource Management In The Bio-Culturally Diverse State Of Arunachal Pradesh’ organized at the Conference showered praise on the traditional practices and natural resource management systems being followed by the tribal people and expressed how it is these communities who are at the forefront of protecting the world’s biodiversity.

The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) will soon create a national data base for tigers, the flagship species of India, and each one of the big cats will have a unique identification numb