International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) red listed of endangered species, Blue-Finned Mahseer has now moved to the ‘least concern’ status. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The group is involved in conservation of the blue-finned and golden mahseer for 50 years in Lonavala. ...

About 23 countries' governments have collectively launched bold new plans to catalyze action and spearhead a decade of innovation to drive global investment in clean energy research, development and demonstrations. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The goal is to make clean energy affordable, ...

The study identified the declining forest bird species in Western Himalayas and found that while the forest interior harbors a large number of endemic bird species, all landscapes showed a drastic loss of bird species diversity. With the loss of natural habitats in the region, dispersal corridors ...

Cheetah, the world's fastest land animal which was declared extinct in India in 1952, to be re-introduced into the country in November this year at the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The country's last spotted cheetah died in Chhattisgarh in 1947 and it ...

Recently 18 elephants died on a hilltop in Assam. The preliminary post-mortem report indicates they had been struck by lightning. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Lightning may injure or kill animals in a number of ways such as: Direct Flash: An animal in an open field may be struck ...

For elephant seals - one of the most distinctive of the 33 species that comprise the world's seal family - it is hard work to stay fat. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Scientists have conducted the most thorough study to date of the unique feeding behavior of northern elephant seals, ...

A ‘cute’ American turtle popular as a pet is threatening to invade the natural water bodies across the Northeast, home to 21 of the 29 vulnerable native Indian species of freshwater turtles and tortoises. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Between August 2018 and June 2019, a team of ...

The Assam’s Golaghat and Nagaon districts authorities have begun probing cases of clearance of forest land, digging and construction activities on at least three animal corridors within the eco-sensitive zone of the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 ...

Researchers of Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Kolkata, have now developed tools to tell apart the scales of Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) and Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla), to enforce the appropriate national and international laws and to track the decline of the species. ...

Eight Asiatic lions at Hyderabad’s Nehru Zoological Park have tested positive for the deadly coronavirus, perhaps the first known case of the human infecting the felines and making them sick in India. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 LaCONES or Laboratory for the Conservation of Endangered ...