Endangered habitats
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The bird people of Lake Manchar: surviving in a vanishing oasis
The Mohana of Pakistan’s Sindh province once thrived on the lake but pollution and drought have caused the fra…
- Access to water, Conservation, Endangered habitats, Endangered species, Environment, India, Kashmir, South and Central Asia, Water, Wild flowers, Wildlife, World news
Joy and relief as lotus flowers bloom again in Kashmiri lake after three decades
Wular Lake once supported 5,000 people who harvested the plant’s edible roots, until the lake silted up after …
- Animals, Asia Pacific, Conservation, Endangered habitats, Endangered species, Environment, Mining, New Zealand, Wildlife, World news
Fast-track to where? The new law opening up New Zealand to a mining boom
Critics say the country’s unique biodiversity is at risk as the government plans to boost mineral exports to $…
- Animal behaviour, Animal welfare, Animals, Biodiversity, Climate crisis, Conservation, Deforestation, Endangered habitats, Endangered species, Environment, India, IUCN red list of endangered species, Oil and gas companies, Primatology, Science, South and Central Asia, Wildlife, World news
Guardians of the Gibbons: animal-human harmony hangs in the balance
For over a century the villagers of Barekuri, north-east India’s biodiversity hotspot, have coexisted with the…
- Animal behaviour, Animal welfare, Animals, Biodiversity, Climate crisis, Conservation, Deforestation, Endangered habitats, Endangered species, Environment, India, IUCN red list of endangered species, Oil and gas companies, Primatology, Science, South and Central Asia, Wildlife, World news
Guardians of the Gibbons: can India save its only ape species from extinction?
For over a century the villagers of Barekuri, north-east India’s biodiversity hotspot, have coexisted with the…
- Animals, Asia, Coastlines, Conservation, Endangered habitats, Environment, Global development, Marine life, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Travel, Travel and transport, Wildlife, World news
‘It’s nice to help a life to live’: meet Sri Lanka’s turtle guardians
Volunteers are helping save baby sea turtles as the endangered species’ favourite nesting spots come under pre…
- Animals, Bangladesh, Climate crisis, Coastlines, Conservation, Endangered habitats, Endangered species, Environment, Global development, Rivers, Society, South and Central Asia, Wildlife, Women, World news
‘Husband eaters’: the double loss of Bangladesh’s ostracised tiger widows
After the trauma of losing their spouse and breadwinner to the Sundarbans’ great predator, women are cast out …
- Conservation, Endangered habitats, Environment, IUCN red list of endangered species, Kazakhstan, Marine life, South and Central Asia, Wildlife, World news
The shrinking sea: why the Caspian is under threat – a photo essay
With the rivers that feed it drying up, less rainfall and a hotter climate, the world’s largest inland body of…
- Africa, Animal welfare, Animals, Birds, Climate crisis, Conservation, Endangered habitats, Endangered species, Environment, India, World news
How killing vultures endangers humans – video
Africa has lost about 90% of its vultures over the past 50 years. It’s a rapidly growing crisis, and the decli…
- Asia Pacific, Birds, Climate crisis, Endangered habitats, Environment, Māori, New Zealand, Pollution, Rivers, Water, Wildlife, World news
‘Like you’re in a horror movie’: pollution leaves New Zealand wetlands irreversibly damaged
Ecologists say some bodies of water may already have passed the tipping points from which they may never recov…
- Animals, Asia Pacific, Climate crisis, Conservation, Endangered habitats, Endangered species, Environment, Insects, New Zealand, Wildlife
Six new wētā species found in New Zealand, as their habitat slowly disappears
Global heating speeding up their decline as terrain of newly discovered alpine species disappears Six new alpi…
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High and dry: will India’s swimming camels be the last of their kind?
Rapid industrialisation in Gujarat threatens the mangroves that kharai camels and their nomadic herders depend…
- Africa, Animals, Asia Pacific, Business, China, Coal, Conservation, Endangered habitats, Endangered species, Energy, Environment, Fossil fuels, Mining, Wildlife, World news, Zimbabwe
Chinese mining firms in Zimbabwe pose threat to endangered species, say experts
Two companies granted permission to clear land at Hwange national park, home to cheetahs, elephants and rhinos…
- Animals, Conservation, Endangered habitats, Endangered species, Environment, India, South and Central Asia, Wildlife
‘No tigers here’: why Goa is in denial about its big cat population
Officials claim there are no tigers in Goa. But the poisoning of a mother and three cubs has forced the issue …