China’s heart beats for animals In a move that will save innumerable animals from great pain, the Chinese government has approved alternative test methods of cosmetics. The country’s National Medical Products Administration passed the regulation on March 22 and accepted the use of two methods — direct peptide reaction assay for skin sensitisation and short…
Hump-backed mahseer joins Red List of Threatened Species The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) has added the hump-backed mahseer to its Red List of Threatened Species. The freshwater fish, found only in the Cauvery river basin, is allegedly more in danger of being extinct than the tiger, according to the IUCN. The fish…
Recent research on the Asiatic Wild Dog, commonly called Dhole, shows a fast decline in its numbers and loss of habitat in the Western Ghats of Karnataka. Arjun Srivathsa, wildlife biologist with Wildlife Conservation Society-India, and a doctoral student of the University of Florida authored a research paper which shows the areas occupied by dholes…
1. Maharashtra committee to handle man-animal conflicts The state has decided to frame its own policy on handling man-animal conflicts particularly with tigers that threaten humans and livestock. Avni, a man-eater tigress which killed 13 persons in Pandharkawda in Yavatmal was shot on November 2, 2018 by sharpshooter Asgar Ali Khan. The National Tiger Conservation…
With a protruding, puffed out scalp, prominent teeth and a large green body, the bumphead parrotfish, the world’s largest herbivorous fish, might not win a beauty contest crown, but it surely helps keep our marine ecosystem trim and proper. In recent times, this highly priced fishery resource has experienced a population decline across the globe….