Monthly Archives: July 2023

India is very active in conservation efforts. It is also home to many endangered species. The country is working to save the threatened animals. State conservation agencies are being given funds to save dozens of species. Among them are critically endangered vultures. According to NDTV 13 of the critically endangered vultures were recently released inContinue reading “Critically Endangered Vultures Are Released In Bengal As Indian Conservationists Try To Save Two Species”

Wildlife conservation is difficult. In these posts we have shown that successes in one area can lead to challenges in another. India, for example, has had great success in increasing its tiger population. But that “tiger-centric” approach has come at the risk of harming other endangered species. People centric conservation is now attempting to redressContinue reading “People Centric Conservation In Action: Beekeping May Help Save The Snow Leopard”

Some consider insects the most important of all life forms on the Earth. Life as we know it would certainly be nearly impossible without insects. But the costs some insects impose on human life are nearly intolerable. Science has been at war with those insects for many years. Modifed fruit flies are the latest salvoContinue reading “Modified Fruit Flies Are Latest Advance In Control Of Damaging Pests”

Invasive species are a problem world wide and several American states, including Florida and Texas, are especially hard hit. Anacondas are invading the U.S. At least one species is already established in Florida and a second may be developing a breeding population. If anacondas are invading the U.S. it may make Florida’s snake problems worseContinue reading “Anacondas Are Invading The U.S.; Another Species Of The Big Snake May Be Establishing Itself In American South”

When I was young I was taught that our ancient mammal ancestors were small and likely afraid of dinosaurs. They scavenged and ate eggs but otherwise hid out. But a new fossil shows that to the contrary mammals ate dinosaurs. According to NewScientist the fossil is unique. It shows the cat sized mammal Repenomamus robustusContinue reading “Mammals Ate Dinosaurs: Newly Found Fossil Upends Thinking, Suggests Smaller Mammals Attacked Larger Dinosaurs”

India is attempting Project Cheetah, an ambitious effort to reestablish a cheetah population with cats from Namibia But there have been problems. The goal of the Project Cheetah review is to understand the deaths of study cheetahs. India hopes to establish a breeding population over the next ten years. But the project is facing criticismContinue reading “Project Cheetah Review: India To Convene High Level Meeting In Wake Of Deaths Of Fast Running Cats”

India has been extremely active in big cat conservation and now is considering an Asian tiger translocation. According to the Independent the preliminary agreement has been signed and the process is underway. Several hurdles remain, however. Although Cambodia has located what they feel is suitable tiger habitat, India will not translocate the tigers until certainContinue reading “Asian Tiger Translocation: India May Give Tigers To Cambodia Due To Success Of Its Conservation Efforts, Extinction In Cambodia”

There is no doubt that the joro spider is a nightmare to people afraid of spiders. The invasive creature is about the size of a palm and spins a huge dense web. But the joro spider results are in and studies show the creature is very docile. According to Mashable, joro spider results are stillContinue reading “Joro Spider Results: Huge Invasive Spider Is Docile, No Threat To People”

Wildlife Learning Center (WLC) is mourning Dash the two-toed sloth. According to Executive Director David Riherd the infant passed after a struggle with illness. In an email to supporters Riherd said: “it’s an excruciatingly painful loss, but I know that we all did absolutely everything we could to give him a chance to survive. DashContinue reading “Dash The Two-Toed Sloth Dies; Wildlife Learning Center Mourns Passing Of Endangered Baby”

Antarctica has been in the wildlife news for most of the history of this blog. Researchers are finding more and more evidence of a vast world of life beneath the southern ocean. The Antarctic undersea world is vast, and experts say previous estimates of its potential size may have been underestimated. Some of our earliestContinue reading “Antarctic Undersea World Dwarfs Previous Estimates, Several Million Square Miles In Size?”