Tag Archives: Wildlife

• India lost 41 tigers from poaching this year 13 August 2015 | Nirmala George This post has no comments yet

  Six months after India boasted that its tiger population was growing fast, conservationists on Wednesday said 41 big cats had already died this year and worried that the country was not doing enough to save them. ...

• World’s oldest big cat fossils discovered in Tibet 13 November 2013 | Jennifer S Holland This post has 2 comments

  Scientists have found the oldest big cat fossil yet, dated between 4.1 and 5.95 million years old, suggesting the big cats such as Tigers and Leopards might have evolved in Central Asia and spread out. ...

• Polar bear hunting and migration ‘hit by warming climate’ 20 March 2013 This post has no comments yet

  One of the most southerly populations of polar bears now has only limited time to hunt on sea ice due to a warming climate, research suggests. ...

• Chiru: an antelope under threat due to craze for shahtoosh 13 December 2012 | Dharmendra Khandal This post has 2 comments

  There were about ten hundred thousand chirus residing on the Tibet plateau some 50 years ago, according to reports. Now, this number has been reduced to a mere 75,000. ...