Biodiversity

The New Jersey Fish and Game Board approved yesterday to open a hunting season for black bears in December, with which they seek to eliminate more than 500 bears during a week.

Approximately 10,000 species of birds are known on Earth. Slightly less than half are migratory. A total of about 4,000 species of birds migrate back and forth between their breeding and wintering grounds.

The Union Environment Ministry has given in-principle permission to divert around 130.75 sq km of forest area in Great Nicobar Island for a developmental project that will have a transhipment port

Deforestation is increasing in the forests of the Amazon, whose integrity may reach a point of no return, directly affecting 47 million people and aggravating the global climate and biodiversity crises

In a study recently published in Nature Climate Change, scientists found that 65% of the insect populations they examined could become extinct within the next century.

The Endangered royal stag, popularly known as the Hangul, has shown a gradual increase in its population and a fresh survey reveals

Most of the countries in the region have strict national laws to protect their wildlife resources and also a good system of nature reserves. Strong and well-enforced national laws are the key to securing such recourse systems.

The population of endangered Gangetic river dolphins in Bhagalpur Bihar has increased in a year, according to the latest survey conducted this year by a team from the Wildlife Conservation Trust (WCT).

This iconic and culturally treasured big cat is a good indicator species as it reacts quickly to habitat disturbances and its successful conservation requires long-term sustainable systemic solutions to threats affecting habitat quality.

A stray cinereous vulture, rehabilitated for 5 years in Tamil Nadu, was airlifted to Machia Biological Park in Rajasthan's Jodhpur on Thursday afternoon and will be released into the park for rewilding after a few days of a precautionary quarantine