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17 Species to get Help from becoming Endangered & Extinct

GeneralSeptember 12, 2011September 12, 2011 Atula Gupta

The Union ministry of environment and forest announced last week that 17 species of animals and birds that are listed as endangered are being considered for recovery from the ‘Endangered species list’ of the Red Book of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The list includes Asiatic Lions whose population is visibly increasing and other species like the Indian bustards and snow leopards that are known to be struggling to survive.

Efforts made to Save Jerdon’s Courser – One of the World’s Rarest Bird

GeneralFebruary 21, 2011 Atula Gupta

Jerdon’s Courser is a nocturnal bird found only in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. It has been listed among the 50 rarest birds of the world. But sadly the number of this bird is diminishing and in a bid to save it from extinction, the Indian government has now included it in its Integrated Development of Wildlife Habitats’ (IDWH) scheme.

What is the difference between extinct and extinct in the wild?

QuestionsFebruary 8, 2020February 8, 2020 Atula Gupta

Your questions answered. Each week we pick a question asked by our readers and answer them using the help of our resident experts and occasionally guest scientists and researchers eager to resolve your doubts related to the flora and fauna of India. If you have a question, send to contact@indiasendangered.com, or reach us on our social […]

News Shorts from the Wild

General, NewsJuly 14, 2019July 14, 2019 Team Indias Endangered

8 July 2019 – 14 July 2019 Assam Floods Submerge 90% of Kaziranga National Park The water level in Kaziranga National Park has increased and over 70 percent to 90 percent of the park is under water following the incessant rainfall in Assam. The government had deployed special rhino protection force this year as these animals […]

Uttar Pradesh To Axe 50,000 Trees In Tiger Habitat To Build A Road

ThreatsOctober 13, 2018October 13, 2018 Atula Gupta

One would assume that the recent floods of Kerala would be a good learning lesson for the nation to think twice before playing with nature. But yet again, the news of the state government of Uttar Pradesh planning to axe prime forest trees to build a road on the Indo-Nepal border, seems to show otherwise. […]

Biodiversity in India

Knowledge, ResourcesAugust 17, 2018 Team Indias Endangered

This is a guest post by Geography and You team. The United Nations’ (UN) Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) defines biodiversity or ‘biological diversity’ as “the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are a part; this includes diversity […]

Bengal Becomes the Hub of Wildlife Trade in India

GeneralAugust 7, 2018August 8, 2018 Ramya Naresh

Quick Notes Raids conducted in different parts of the state in June reveal 6 cases of large wildlife seizures in just a month Wildlife trades include rare and protected species like the pied hornbill, slow loris, great Indian hornbill, bear, tiger, tokay gecko etc. Bengal is used as a hub and a transit point by […]

A Year Back Into Nature

Conservation, GeneralDecember 30, 2017 Atula Gupta

“The extinction of wildlife would likely be caused not just by the greed of poachers, but equally by the rapacity of developers,” writes Prerna Singh Bindra in her book The Vanishing: India’s Wildlife Crisis. The year 2017 has given ample proof of both – the remorseless operations of the merchants of wildlife who will sell […]

Bareilly To Get A DNA bank For Wild Animals – The Second In India.

Conservation, GeneralApril 25, 2017 Ramya Naresh

The Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) has taken a significant step to aid wildlife conservation by setting up a DNA bank for wild animals at Bareilly. This is the first of its kind in the northern part of the country after Hyderabad which already has a DNA bank for wild animals. The centre at Bareilly […]

Selfie Inside Kaziranga National Park Gets Poachers In Jail

ThreatsJanuary 27, 2017 Atula Gupta

On June 18th last year, deep inside the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, two men killed a female rhino for her horn. The poachers were so elated that they took a selfie right then and there, posing proudly with the butchered rhino. Little did they know then, that 7 months later, it would be this […]

From Loathed To Loved: Villagers Rally To Save Greater Adjutant Stork

People for PlanetDecember 11, 2016December 11, 2016 Team Indias Endangered

This is a post written by Diane Toomey republished here with permission from Mongaybay.com . Original source. Greater Adjutants in a nest at the Dadara village nesting colony in Assam, India. Photo by Purnima Barman You know a bird has a PR problem when an ornithologist refers to it as “a prodigy of ugliness.” […]