Abi Vanak News Today

This article is authored by Bahar Dutt, environment journalist and associate professor, Shiv Nadar University, New Delhi.

With at least three of the nine cheetah deaths in Kuno being attributed to infections around the neck, four of India’s top wildlife scientists talk of their experience with radio-collaring different species

Researchers say such scenarios could drive these wild populations into a hybridisation vortex which eventually result in extinction via hybridisation  

The cheetah named Oban, released from a fenced enclosure into the wild in Kuno last month, moved outside the park’s designated area on Sunday and Monday and forest and wildlife staff have scrambled to coax the animal back into Kuno

On women-run farms in the Himalayan state, the yield is falling prey to other consequences of a warming world – wild animals eating the produce.

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The calculated carrying capacity of three cheetahs per 100sqkm for Kuno was based on an out-of-date density estimate from Namibia, but studies of free-ranging cheetah populations in eastern Africa show that one cheetah would require at least 100sqkm

The dog attacked the infant within the premises of a gated multi-building apartment complex on Monday evening where the parents were engaged as construction workers

Despite hundreds of novel coronaviruses being sampled, the COVID-19 pandemic grew over an order of magnitude beyond its 2003 SARS counterpart

A healthier environment can reduce global burden of disease by a quarter