KATHMANDU — Nepal’s Ministry of Forest and Environment is preparing to allow the construction of ropeways inside protected areas of the country, a draft of a proposed regulation seen by Mongabay suggests. Ropeways, which carry cable cars, are not permitted in protected areas such as national parks under current laws. But the proposed National Parks […]
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Leopard Cubs Reunited With Mom! [Video]
Spring is the season of baby animals! It’s not just the baby birds, squirrels, and kittens that you may be seeing on your own or social media, it’s also animals like leopards! Recently, farmers in Maharashtra found three leopard cubs in their sugarcane fields. Fortunately, they did not take matters into their own hands […]
Aussies get in a flap as Instagram-famous magpie Molly – who was rescued as a chick and raised for years by a family alongside their Staffie Peggy – is SEIZED by authorities on welfare grounds: 100,000 sign petition calling for bird’s freedom
Australian authorities have ordered the seizure of a magpie after the famous internet bird formed an adorable friendship with a Staffordshire bull terrier. Molly the magpie was found as a lonely chick in a park four years ago by Juliette Wells and Reece Mortensen, of Queensland, before they brought the bird home to look after […]
Adventure tours with tigers? Nepal’s proposed policy changes raise alarm
KATHMANDU — Nepal’s government has proposed zoning of protected areas, where human activities have long been highly restricted, to accommodate “adventure tourism” activities such as canyoning, mountain biking and motorboating. The sweeping changes have been proposed under the new draft National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Regulations, which have been in the works for a few […]
Biden Administration Restores Protections for Threatened Species
The Biden administration restored protections to threatened species in the U.S. on March 29 — protections that had previously been rolled back in 2019 by the Trump administration. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) finalized three rules to protect threatened species […]
Heartbreaking footage of baby orca refusing to leave lagoon where its mother died is captured off Vancouver Island coast – as rescues scramble to save the young whale’s life
A two-year-old orca has been circling a Canadian lagoon for days, refusing to leave the area where its mother died on the shore. The young whale’s mother, named Spong, passed away after she became trapped in the shallow waters off the west coast of Vancouver. Wildlife officials and scientists are now in a race against […]
Nepal mulls policy shift to allow hotels back into tiger strongholds
KATHMANDU — Nepal’s Ministry of Forest and Environment is preparing fresh regulations to allow hotels to return to national parks such as Chitwan, a decade after they were shut down based on environmental concerns. Although rumors were doing the rounds in the corridors of the ministry and the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation […]