An Economic Boom in Turkey Takes a Toll on Marine Life
Yale Environment 360 -  The development-at-any-cost policies of Turkish Prime Minister Recip Tayyip Erdogan — a key factor behind the protests and clashes in Istanbul’s Taksi... read more
[18 Jun 2013] 

Singapore chokes on haze from deforestation fires
Mongabay.com -  Singapore and Malaysian officials have asked Indonesia to take "urgent measures" to address forest fires in Sumatra that are sending choking haze nort... read more
[18 Jun 2013] 

Not 5, poachers kill 9 tigers in 2 months
Times of India -  A day after TOI reported that five tigers were killed by organized gangs of tiger poachers belonging to the notorious Baheliya community from Katni in... read more
[13 Jun 2013] 

'The Sumatran rainforest will mostly disappear within 20 years'
Guardian (London) -  In only a few years, logging and agribusiness have cut Indonesia's vast rainforest by half. The government has renewed a moratorium on deforestation b... read more
[27 May 2013] 

Plague of deforestation sweeps across south-east Asia
Guardian (London) -  Illegal logging and unchecked economic development are taking a devastating toll on forests... read more
[21 May 2013] 

Urbanization and surface warming in eastern China
Terra Daily -  A recent study indicated that the urbanization in eastern China has significant impact on the observed surface warming and the temporal-spatial variat... read more
[15 May 2013] 

India acts to save Asiatic lion by moving it – but hard work has only just begun
Guardian (London) -  Ambitious plan to translocate lions from Gujarat to Madhya Pradesh finally gets green light with Supreme Court ruling... read more
[08 May 2013] 

Sumatran orangutans' rainforest home faces new threat
Terra Daily -  A baby Sumatran orangutan swings playfully on a branch at an Indonesian rescue centre, a far cry from the terror he endured when his pristine rainfore... read more
[06 May 2013] 

Greater Mekong countries 'lost one-third of forest cover in 40 years'
Guardian (London) -  Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand and Vietnam have lost nearly 40m ha of forest cover since 1980, a new report shows... read more
[03 May 2013] 

Scientist Says Pollution From China Is Killing a Japanese Island’s Trees
New York Times -  A mysterious pestilence has befallen this island’s primeval forests, leaving behind the bleached, skeletal remains of dead trees that now dot the dark... read more
[25 Apr 2013] 

Electronic surveillance of tiger movement to be put in place
Times of India -  Government will put in place safeguards including 'e-surveillance' of tiger movement for preventing the death of big cats due to train hits. ... read more
[23 Apr 2013] 

Chinese vessel on Philippine coral reef caught with illegal pangolin meat
Guardian (London) -  Ship's crew arrested after running into protected Tubbataha marine park with more than 10,000kg of protected scaly anteater... read more
[16 Apr 2013] 

India use drones to protect rhinos from poachers
Times of India -  Wildlife authorities are using aerial drones to oversee a sprawling natural game park in Assam to protect the one-horned rhinoceros from armed poacher... read more
[10 Apr 2013] 

Sumatran rhino population plunges, down to 100 animals
Mongabay.com -  Less than 100 Sumatran rhinos survive in the world today, according to a bleak new population estimate by experts. The last survey in 2008 estimated t... read more
[09 Apr 2013] 

Japan killed record low number of whales mongabay.com
Mongabay.com -  Japan blamed environmental activists for a "record low" take during this year's whaling season in the Southern Ocean, reports Kyodo News... read more
[08 Apr 2013] 

Rhino census in Kaziranga amid rampant poaching
Times of India -  Kaziranga National Park authorities on Sunday launched a rhino census for a headcount. The two-day exercise will be conducted in all the five ranges ... read more
[25 Mar 2013] 

Video uncovers top level corruption in Sarawak over indigenous forests
Mongabay.com -  Tax evasion, kick-backs, bribery, and corruption all make appearances in a shocking new undercover video by Global Witness that shows how top individu... read more
[21 Mar 2013] 

Big leopard numbers in human habitats: Study
Times of India -  Most people think of leopards as predators that live in forests except for a few that occasionally stray into human settlements. Breaking that myth, a... read more
[21 Mar 2013] 

Facing extinction, conservationists call emergency summit to save Sumatran Rhino
Mongabay.com -  With the number of Sumatran Rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) now under 200 and declining rapidly, a group of conservationists have organized an e... read more
[18 Mar 2013]