Conservation

Safeguarding our Ivory – what will it take?

October 24, 2018 0

Mikumi National Park – Tanzania, the elephant staggered and collapsed over in the tall grass in Southern Tanzania, where some of the world’s worst poaching happens. It wasn’t a poacher who targeted her, but a […]

Black morph of the Indian cobra (photo by Richard Southworth)
Zoology

Searching for Snakes in Himachal Pradesh

October 17, 2018 5

Snakebite is considered a “neglected tropical disease” by the World Health Organisation, and it kills more people in India than anywhere else in the world; 45,000 fatalities per year is the official figure, though it […]