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Rhinocyllus conicus (Image Credit: Canva) A biological control programme launched in the United States more than five decades ago has…

In the 1990s, a predatory flatworm was released in Samoa to control giant African snails An aggressive predatory flatworm introduced…

In 1987, a British naturalist became the first professional warden of a remote Seychelles island In 1987, British naturalist Ian…

An English zoo is celebrating the birth of a piglet whose species, according to conservationists is being wiped out in…

Amazon River Dolphin (Image Credit: Canva) The Amazon river dolphin, popularly known as the boto, is one of the world’s…

Flowerhorn cichlids are aquarium fish prized for their bright-gold colour and prominent head humps. Photograph: Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP/Getty Images A human-bred…

2 min readJul 17, 2026 06:15 AM IST First published on: Jul 17, 2026 at 06:15 AM IST If a…

At the bottom of a lake in Mexico City lives a creature that should not, by biological rules, be able…

Indian conservationists Parveen Shaikh and Barkha Subba have won the prestigious Whitley Awards 2026, widely known as the ‘Green Oscars’,…

In a first in India, a satellite-tagged Ganges soft-shell turtle was released in the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve…